at a glance

In the final stages, Digital Elevation Models (DEM) are produced of the central area to reveal comparative elements in the evolution of the landscape of the city. Presented by the    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, the study Memória Viva de um bairro que resiste: reflexos de obsolescência no bairro da Cidade Nova e adjacências,(Living Memory in a neighborhood of resistance: reflections on the obsolescence of the neighborhood of Cidade Nova and its surroundings), by Claudia Baima Mesquita,  discusses how the maintenance and revitalization of urban areas and landmarks in the 20th century has become a multi-disciplinary subject - with contributions and white papers from various knowledge centers, all of them trying to capture the soul of the city and looking for ways to establish the right balance between legacy (old) and the new.