Rio de Janeiro: Cidade e Região (Rio de Janeiro: City and Region), by Lysia M. C. Bernardes and Maria Therezinha de Segadas Soares brings together essays published separately in the 50s and 60s and which have become, since them, almost inaccessible to the reader, because out of stock. They are true classics about the Geography of Brazil.

By focusing on the origins of the city of Rio de Janeiro, its geographical position, the expansion of its urban space and the characterization of its neighborhoods and suburbs, Lysia Bernardes and Maria Therezinha de Segadas Soares bring to the forefront of the debate the spatial structuring process of the carioca metropolis and its relations to the surrounding region.