Presented by the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, the study O bairro de Santa Teresa: Sua evolução no contexto da cidade do Rio de Janeiro (The neighborhood of Santa Teresa: Its evolution in the context of the city of Rio de Janeiro), by Jhone Caetano Araújo, Luís Felipe Kuhner da Rocha Fragoso e Paulo Marcio Leal de Menezes, aims to analyze the urban evolution of the neighborhood of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro.

This neighborhood had a number of distinguishing, attractive features at the time when the city was first founded. - First and foremost, this study investigates what exactly these attractive features were, considering its disposition and shape within the urban web,  and how this developed through history.

This paper is part of a wider program for the historical-geographical-cartographic 'rescue' of Rio de Janeiro, using digital methods of historical-cartographic analysis and the application of geographical concepts.