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Brazil is a country of city dwellers undergoing radical transformation: over 85 per cent of the country’s citizens live in cities and over 40 per cent of the population live in metropolises of more than a million people. Whereas previously urban growth had been ad hoc, preparation for the FIFA World Cup in 12 cities across the country in 2014, and for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio, changed all that. Several Brazilian cities have proactively invested in infrastructure and the public realm. And a number of projects by international ‘starchitects’ have heightened interest in Brazil from architects and urban practitioners abroad. The failure of public authorities to meet their ambitious aspirations for the sporting mega-events sparked a series of street protests across the country under the banner of ‘the right to the city’, beginning in 2013. For Brazil, this was an entirely new phenomenon, one which has unveiled the potential for bottom-up influences to effect urban change. The focus of this issue, though, is on design projects that contribute a strong sense of place to their respective cities, highlighting also the integration of landscape design in urban planning and community interventions that seek to address the enormous disparity between the lives of the country’s rich and poor.

Contributors: Ricky Burdett, Thomas Deckker, Gabriel Duarte, Sergio Ekerman, Nanda Eskes and André Vieira, Alexandre Hepner and Silvio Soares Macedo, Circe Monteiro and Luiz Carvalho, Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves, Jaime Lerner, Ana Luiza Nobre, Justin McGuirk, Francesco Perrotta-Bosch, Maria do Rocio Rosário, Fernando Serapião, Guilherme Wisnik

Featured architects: AECOM, Biselli Katchborian, Brasil Arquitetura, Santiago Calatrava, Studio Arthur Casas, Diller Scofdio + Renfro, Herzog & de Meuron, Vigliecca & Associados

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Hattie Hartman is sustainability editor at The Architects’ Journal in London. An American architect and urban planner, she has been based in London for more than 20 years. Hattie worked as an architect in Brasilia, Washington, D.C. and London before turning to freelance journalism in 1998 and joining The Architects’ Journal in 2006. In 2008, she founded AJ Footprint, the AJ’s dedicated coverage of sustainable design in the built environment, (www.ajfootprint.com). She lectures widely on mainstreaming green design and various technical aspects of sustainability. She is also the author of London 2012: Sustainable Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2012), a review of the sustainable design platform which underpinned the London Games.
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"Across almost 150 pages a new future for Brazil is told in vivid and considered detail and sumptous colour. Well worth a read." (theNBS.com, August 2016)

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  • PublisherAcademy Press
  • Publication date2016
  • ISBN 10 1118972465
  • ISBN 13 9781118972465
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  • Number of pages136
  • EditorHartman Hattie

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