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How many shantytowns — favelas — are there in Rio de Janeiro? It’s the sort of question that defies the town planner as much as the tourist. Just one more mystery that Rio de Janeiro refuses to reveal. Recent estimates talk of more than 600 favelas on the hillsides and borderlands of the city. Over 600 places that are outside the official geography of the city. Over 600 communities improvised and named by their own inhabitants. Over 600 territories occupied illegally by 20 per cent of the urban population.
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Heritage, P. (2006). Parallel Power: Shakespeare, Gunfire and Silence. In: Hill, L., Paris, H. (eds) Performance and Place. Performance Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597723_16
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