Rio, Cidade em transformação
CURADORIA
Antonio Edmilson Rodrigues Martins
The gallery presents the urban development of Rio over its almost five centuries of existence, from before its founding to the present day. The changes in ways of building and living, the key players in the transformation of urban space, and the different strategies for making Rio de Janeiro a healthier city are the guiding threads of this journey through Rio, a city in transformation.
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No caminho da civilização
In the second half of the 19th century, the ideas of civilization and progress consolidated by taking European metropolises as a model, but there was an immense gap between the ideals and reality. The social and ethnic diversity that existed in the capital of the Empire provoked reactions - among the elites - that contributed to a scenario of exclusion and associated modernization with the social segregation of urban space. The need to contain problems with public hygiene, which limited the intended urban expansion, continued to direct urbanistic interventions.