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Rio de Janeiro (ˈʁi.u dʒi ʒɐˈne(j)ɾu, ˈʁi.u dʒɐˈ-) is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil. It has the second largest economy of Brazil, with the largest being that of the state of São Paulo. The state, which has 8.2% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for 9.2% of the Brazilian GDP. The state of Rio de Janeiro is located within the Brazilian geopolitical region classified as the Southeast (assigned by IBGE). Rio de Janeiro shares borders with all the other states in the same Southeast macroregion: Minas Gerais (N and NW), Espírito Santo (NE) and São Paulo (SW). It is bounded on the east and south by the South Atlantic Ocean. Rio de Janeiro has an area of . Its capital is the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Brazil from 1763 to 1815, of the following United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1815 to 1822, and of later independent Brazil as a kingdom and republic from 1822 to 1960. The state's 22 largest cities are Ri

Joga Bonito! Favela La Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro (Brésil)

Xavier Oreiller

Cité merveilleuse, favela-tours… Socialement, politiquement et spatialement la ville de Rio est en prise avec une dissociation flagrante, engendrant une situation de crise. Longtemps le but avoué des interventions dans les territoires des favelas était de rééduquer les habitants à une culture urbaine importée d'Europe et d'Amérique du Nord, réminiscence de l'entreprise coloniale. La crise actuelle et les positions radicales assumées par chacune des parties démontrent l'échec stratégique de considérer la favela comme inadaptée ou hors de la ville. Au-delà des problèmes sanitaires ou sécuritaires, la favela n'est pas déficiente! Contre l'idéologie largement établie d'opposer ville formelle et ville informelle, nous proposons une conception de la ville de Rio de Janeiro dans son ensemble, rassemblant les deux pendants d'une urbanité incontrôlée et violente. Nous ne cherchons pas l'homogénéité des parties mais leur cohésion. L'intervention, localisée en tangence de la favela la Rocinha, projette un espace public activé par une série de programmes destinés à l'ensemble de la cité. Située entre deux urbanités caractéristiques, elle en balise un troisième. S'inspirant de la stratégie du disponible, la voirie devient un espace potentiel, site du projet. Cette injection programmatique et spatiale répond aux différentes échelles du territoire, superposant les flux et ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives pour la ville.

2007

Transport à câble aérien en milieu urbain: pertinence et pratique

Fernando Anisio De Oliveira Simas

The intense urbanization of cities has left few options when it comes to insert large mobility infrastructure they need to move their inhabitants. A surface rail network, a dedicated roadway bus line or any other mobility infrastructure such as a tramway at the urban surface represent challenging interfaces to set up, particularly because of level crossings and physical barriers that they induce in the urban space. To avoid this occupation of the surface and the resulting urban scars, a lot has already been invested in the underground. Whilst, the airspace is still very little exploited by urban transport systems. In order to deepen knowledge in this area, the research theme focused on the urban ropeways, a cable air transport system, which several innovative examples can be found in Latin America. Relevant for whom? The research conducted is divided into two stages. As a first step, a sociological analysis made it possible to determine how urban ropeways are relevant for users and represent an interesting alternative to other means of public transportation. This analysis is based on a survey among users of ten public transportation lines in Switzerland and Brazil. Relevance where? In a latter phase, the analysis concerns the project of urban ropeways in the urbanized areas. This transportation system can be considered as a complex project because of its constructive characteristics, at the territorial big scale. A sequence of large mobility interfaces projected along the ropeway path transforms connectivity, density, and public space. These different architectural objects of mixed use are connected in minutes by the cable and their strong presence in the urban landscape raises questions of relevance. Spread in the Rio de Janeiro, Lake Geneva and New York metropolis, ten cable routes are studied, taking into account the temporality of project progress and the degree of urbanization of the target territory. This evaluation of the project practice aims to determine the extent to which urban ropeways is likely to be developed in European territory, Swiss in this instance. At the end of these analysis, the thesis makes it possible to conclude that urban ropeways have their relevance in European cities, but under fairly specific conditions.

EPFL2019

Transport à câble aérien en milieu urbain: pertinence et pratique

Fernando Anisio De Oliveira Simas

EPFL2019