
Back to Rio
This huge scale public arts project has radically transformed the image of one of the most notorious favelas i…

Upgrading of Audi União Shantytown: Curitiba
This upgrading project has been carried out in Audi União, one of largest and poorest squatter settlements in …

The Struggle for Housing in Central Areas
The Associação Cortiços do Centro, Condomínio Vanguarda (Association of Tenements in Central Areas - ACC) is a…

‘Caprichando a Morada’: Living well is part of human dignity
The COOPERHAF rural housing cooperative was established in 2001 by the Workers' Federation of Family-Based Agr…

Sustainable Land Tenure Regularisation as an Instrument for Social Transformation
The work of Terra Nova Regularizações Fundiárias involves land tenure regularisation and the upgrading of info…

Self-managed Vertical Housing
Working to support community-led, high-density urban-housing initiatives, this project has worked with nearly …

Land and Housing Programme
Over 15,000 families have benefited to date from the Bento Rubião Foundation’s pioneering work with the Right …

Building Restoration for Social Housing Purposes – Celso Garcia, 787
This project has converted one of the many redundant and derelict commercial buildings in the centre of São Pa…

Urban Management in Curitiba – Building Full Citizenship
This project is an outstanding example of how an imaginative and innovative city planning approach has created…