at a glance

Presented by rio de janeiro's prefecture, the study Rio de Janeiro: uma cidade conectada por túneis (rio de janeiro: a city connected by tunnels), by Ronaldo Cerqueira Carvalho looks at the many urban tunnels in the city of Rio de Janeiro and shows a wave of influences expanded by the advent of each one of the carioca tunnels, on the prism of socio economics, cultural and humanists connections, mirrored and catalyzed by the flux that these passages make viable - tunnels in the districts of  copacabana, leme, botafogo, laranjeiras, catumbi, rio comprido, gamboa, saúde, santo cristo, tijuca, vila isabel, barra da tijuca, são conrado, and joá are examined, among others.

presented by the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, the study Vozes da Vila: espaços e representações no entorno da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Voices of Vila: spaces and representations in the vicinity of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro by Denise da Costa Oliveira Siqueira and Luísa Real de Andrade Amaral aims to study the uses and representations of a portion of the districts of vila isabel and maracanã, situated opposite the State University of Rio de Janeiro and attended by students, teachers and employers at UERJ.