Brazil

Hattie Hartman is sustainability editor at The Architects’ Journal in London. An American architect and urban planner, she has been based in London for more than 20 years. Hattie worked as an architect in Brasilia, Washington, D.C. and London before turning to freelance journalism in 1998 and joining The Architects’ Journal in 2006. In 2008, she founded AJ Footprint, the AJ’s dedicated coverage of sustainable design in the built environment, (www.ajfootprint.com). She lectures widely on mainstreaming green design and various technical aspects of sustainability. She is also the author of London 2012: Sustainable Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2012), a review of the sustainable design platform which underpinned the London Games.

• Editorial 5 About the Guest-Editor 6Fore-thoughts: Learning from Lerner 8Introduction Seeds of Change: Urban Transformation in Brazil 10Where to for Brazil’s Cities?: Citizen Empowerment or Global Marketing? 20A City at Play: Rio de Janeiro on the Eve of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games 28Failing the Informal City: How Rio de Janeiro’s Mega Sporting Events Derailed the Legacy of Favela-Bairro 40Maps to Hack, Synchronise and Decipher: Unseen Cartographies of Rio 48Rethinking Minha Casa Minha Vida: The Resurgence of Public Space 54Dissatisfied São Paulo 60Linking the Formal and Informal: Favela Urbanisation and Social Housing in São Paulo 70Alternative Visions of the Brazilian City: In conversation with Herzog & de Meuron Senior Partner Ascan Mergenthaler 80Brasília: Life Beyond Utopia 88Recife: The Popular Struggle for a Better City 96Salvador: The Struggle for Dialogue Within a Heritage City 106Curitiba Revisited: Five Decades of Transformation 112Landscaping Brazil: The Legacy of Roberto Burle Marx 118Sustainability: A Clarion Call for a New Approach 126Counterpoint Designing Inequality? 136Contributors 142

"Across almost 150??pages a new future for Brazil is told in vivid and considered detail and sumptuous colour. Well worth a read." (theNBS.com, August 2016)