A utopia da pequena África
Subtitle: projetos urbanísticos, patrimônios e conflitos na Zona Portuária carioca
By: Roberta Sampaio Guimarães
Edition: 1a edição.
Publisher: FAPERJ; FGV Editora
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]; Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Language: por
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9788522514892
Subjects: Historic districts; Conservation and restoration; Blacks; Dwellings; Urban renewal
Description: In recent decades, large urbanistic interventions in central districts and "degraded" ports in major cities have sought to include such areas in an international logic of attraction competition for the selection of the city capital in mega events, like the World Cup and the Olympic Games. However, not everything can be ideologically constructed or economically potentiated. When it comes to the history of people, objects and spaces, different and destabilizing memories, such as the "Pequena África" (Little Africa), in the port region, are always likely to be busy, bringing out versions "exhibited" in the city. (Our translation) --Verso Cover.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239).