Janice Perlman

Janice Perlman: “There are so many things in Rio that are never talked about and that are absolutely heroic.”2
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Interview
- 29/06/2016
For this month’s Special Report, Dr. Janice Perlman, founder and CEO of the Mega-Cities Project, joined us to share her wide expertise on public policy, mega-events and the Rio Olympics. Since her last book Favela. Four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro hit the shelves, six years have passed. It’s time to take a step back and have a look at what has happened.
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Politheor’s Special Report on RIO 2016: Perspectives beyond the mega-event 11
- International Relations and Global Affairs, Special Report
- 27/06/2016
Over the past decade Rio has hosted the Pan-American Games (2007), the World Cup (2014), and now, on the 5th of August, the Rio Olympics will kick off. Not only is Rio de Janeiro the first Latin American city to host the Games, but it also differs vastly from Barcelona and Los Angeles in size, economy and society. It’s a mega-city with a metropolitan area that counts over 12 million people, that copes with a stubbornly persisting social divide, and that is already one of the tourist hot spots on the globe.
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