Constructing infrastructure for the elite: Barra’s grand condominiums and the new way of living in the city
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https://doi.org/10.51359/2525-5223.2020.246930Keywords:
Condominium, Barra da Tijuca, Infrastructure, ElitesAbstract
Barra da Tijuca gained prominence in the housing scenario of Rio de Janeiro from the 1970s, mainly within the upper classes. From the factors that precede this emergency, through the process of building the neighborhood as an alternative, its occupation and reframing, to a present (and future) of what the neighborhood represents as a place of residence and its relationship with the city, an investigation of this process and of its concrete reflexes present us a new panorama to think the production of the city and the urban development of Rio de Janeiro. With this article we seek to bring the object of the “city-condominiums” of Barra da Tijuca to think about thatt urban development of the city, focusing on the protagonism of the urban infrastructures in this process.
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