Confronting favela chic: The gentrification of informal settlements in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 81-99

  Cummings, Jake ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

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