O Programa Morar Carioca na favela da Barreira do Vasco, Rio de Janeiro: reflexões sobre os dilemas e desafios para uma urbanização inclusiva

Abstract

This monograph aims to discuss, in the field of urban studies, the scenarios of the urbanization of low income settlements in the mold of what has been adopted by the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro through the Morar Carioca Program, as one of the fundamental questions for the conquest of the right to the city and the full exercise of citizenship. In this sense, the intended academic work will seek reflections on the way the public sphere has acted to implement urbanization policies in areas marked by informality and illegality of land use. It should be stressed, however, that the limits and challenges to be faced by the public power, in a perspective of urbanization of impoverished settlements, where the favelas stand out, reveals how much the elaboration of alternatives for the improvement of the quality of life in areas of this nature are urgent and necessary for the process of democratization of the city and, at the same time, guarantee the full social inclusion and better appropriation of the public space by the residents and other users. For the academic research, the Barreira do Vasco favela, located in the São Cristóvão neighborhood, will be taken as the central object of the research, since it represents an expressive part of the socio-spatial inequality in the City of Rio de Janeiro.