Análise da efetividade social das intervenções urbanísticas de água e esgoto no caso da Favela Cantagalo

Abstract

The paper presents analysis about the effectiveness of attempts to implement social networks, water and sewage services in the Favela Cantagalo Rio de Janeiro. In the absence of access to water and sewer the lower classes living in slums create practices to meet their basic needs and theses services. The programs urban interventions as the Favela Bairro and Pac often do not take into account the culture created by the practies already established for the use of neworks, water and sewage services. There are works incomplete and of poor quality, and a disregard of a roll over of sewage water, leaving the low-income areas also have the difficult integration into formal city, the urbanized world. In a qualitative analysis, a survey of secundary data. Combined with the issue of displacement of the sphere strictly technical infrastructure for social and studies of micro-situations, interviews with residents and their life histories are of paramount importance for the taken as case study of the Favela Cantagalo.