Brazil
Our nation has been working hard into preserving and improving the standards of competitiveness with nations as powerful as United States, China, Greece and Japan for example. Social issues as eliminating urban slums or shantytowns (favelas in Portuguese) and ensuring access to adequate housing became one of the main problematic concern at Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil with an area of 8,515,770 sq/km, represents the fifth biggest country of the world. Known for the most enigmatic forest of the world, the Amazons, Brazil has one of the most variable biodiversity including rare animal and plant species. With an estimated population of 204,259,812 in 2015, its population density is distributed in three main cities at the southeast Sao Paolo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro (CIA). Socio-economic issues as social inequalities contributed to the highest separation of two classes the rich and the poor. In 1991, the Planning Institute of Rio de Janeiro reported 661 favelas, housing 962,793 persons in 239,678 shacks. Favelas growth had its beginnings around 1898; in 1970 forced housing crisis, due industrialization, marked the time of a massive immigration, first cause of shantytown expansion (Pino, …show more content…
It represent Middle social class that enjoys a stable infrastructure, a participating state in the class affairs, a city planning or zoning, a division in single municipality and access to information systems. Meanwhile, the marginalized poor sector suffers the absences of a state representation, unregulated land use, poor infrastructure, invasive through different municipalities, more shantytowns and peri-urban zones, poor information tracking on land use and rate of population
Our nation has been working hard into preserving and improving the standards of competitiveness with nations as powerful as United States, China, Greece and Japan for example. Social issues as eliminating urban slums or shantytowns (favelas in Portuguese) and ensuring access to adequate housing became one of the main problematic concern at Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil with an area of 8,515,770 sq/km, represents the fifth biggest country of the world. Known for the most enigmatic forest of the world, the Amazons, Brazil has one of the most variable biodiversity including rare animal and plant species. With an estimated population of 204,259,812 in 2015, its population density is distributed in three main cities at the southeast Sao Paolo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro (CIA). Socio-economic issues as social inequalities contributed to the highest separation of two classes the rich and the poor. In 1991, the Planning Institute of Rio de Janeiro reported 661 favelas, housing 962,793 persons in 239,678 shacks. Favelas growth had its beginnings around 1898; in 1970 forced housing crisis, due industrialization, marked the time of a massive immigration, first cause of shantytown expansion (Pino, …show more content…
It represent Middle social class that enjoys a stable infrastructure, a participating state in the class affairs, a city planning or zoning, a division in single municipality and access to information systems. Meanwhile, the marginalized poor sector suffers the absences of a state representation, unregulated land use, poor infrastructure, invasive through different municipalities, more shantytowns and peri-urban zones, poor information tracking on land use and rate of population