What are the primary urban challenges facing African cities? What similarities do they share with the reality in Brazil? What role does UN-Habitat play in addressing these issues?
To address these and other questions, as well as share their experiences with African urbanism, the Caos Planejado podcast hosts Jeiza Barbosa, UN-Habitat National Officer for Cape Verde, and Evandro Holz, an international technical advisor for UN-Habitat.
How is the housing deficit calculated? Did the Minha Casa Minha Vida program improve housing affordability? What is the Onerous Grant of the Right to Build? To answer these and other questions, Caos Planejado hosted Tainá Pacheco and Vanessa Nadalin for a conversation.
In this episode of the Caos Planejado podcast, the discussion explores alternatives for pedestrian mobility and the occupation of public spaces through tactical urbanism. The guest is Letícia Sabino, founder and director of SampaPé, an organization that has been working since 2012 to transform cities into more walkable environments alongside people.
Sprawling urban footprints, high temperatures, rugged terrain, and a lack of safety. What are the pathways to promoting cycling as a mobility alternative in Brazilian cities? To explore this topic further, Caos Planejado hosts Glaucia Pereira, founder of Multiplicidade Mobilidade Urbana and a director and member of Cidadeapé, and Rosa Félix, a bicycle mobility researcher at the U-Shift laboratory.
In this episode of the Caos Planejado podcast, architect, professor, and researcher Ester Carro shares her experience leading the Fazendinhando movement, a social urbanism project focused on territorial, cultural, and social transformation in the Jardim Colombo neighborhood, in São Paulo's West Zone.
There is no doubt that preserving historical, artistic, and architectural heritage is a fundamental goal for building a just city. It is the right of all citizens, both present and future generations, to know and enjoy our collective memory and culture. However, for this to actually happen, both a discerning eye and a comprehensive vision of the city are essential.
To understand how communities are confronting the COVID-19 crisis, the Caos Planejado podcast hosts Eliana Sousa Silva, director of the NGO Redes da Maré and coordinator of the campaign “Maré Says No to Coronavirus.”
Born in Serra Branca, Paraíba, Eliana holds a master’s degree in education and a PhD in social work and public security from PUC-Rio. She is a researcher in public security and a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at USP.