São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro Compared
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Rio de Janeiro, aka just Rio, and São Paulo often called SP
The two largest cities in Brazil. Heck, with a metropolitan area population of 21.3 million people, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese speaking city in the world, the second largest city in the entire Southern Hemisphere and 12th largest in the world overall. It’s actually part of an even bigger São Paulo Macrometropolis, which has about 31.5 million people. Geez. Rio de Janeiro, with a metropolitan area population of 13 million people, is the fourth largest city in the Southern Hemisphere and 37th largest city in the world.
About 437 km, or 272 miles apart, or a five and a half hour drive by car, the Brazilian government recently postponed plans to build a $9 billion high speed rail line connecting the two cities that would reduce the trip to just 80 minutes because it would cost...you know…$9 billion.
Don’t be fooled...even though they seem to be hiding down there in the southeast corner of Brazil, both are megacities that dominate the economy and culture of the entire country. Both are near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Ok, well Rio is right on the coast, and SP is about an hour from it.
Rio de Janeiro is the capital city of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Well hey what a coincidence because São Paulo is the capital city of the state of São Paulo.
Citizens in Rio are often called Cariocas, while citizens of São Paulo are often called Paulistanos or Paulistanas.
Both cities are located in the rugged area known as the Brazilian Highlands, an area filled with cliffs, large hills, and mountains. Both are near the Serra do Mar, a system of mountain ranges that go along the coast.
Open House Lecture: Jeanne Gang, “Thinking Through Practice and Research”
American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, FAIA, FRIBA, is the founding principal of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, Jeanne is internationally renowned for a design process that foregrounds the relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Her diverse body of work spans scales and typologies, expanding beyond architecture’s conventional boundaries to pursuits ranging from the development of stronger materials to fostering stronger communities. Her approach has resulted in some of today’s most compelling architecture, including Aqua Tower, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, and Writers Theatre. She is currently designing major projects throughout the Americas and Europe, including the Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; a unified campus for California College of the Arts in San Francisco; and the new United States Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil.
A recipient of the 2013 National Design Award (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum), Jeanne was named the 2016 Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review. In 2017, she was honored with the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award and made an honorary fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Widely published and acclaimed, her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Reveal, the first volume on Studio Gang’s work and process, and Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways, which envisions a radically greener future for the Chicago River.
Jeanne is a distinguished alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was recently appointed Professor in Practice. Her GSD studios have previously explored the multivalent potential of materiality. This semester she is working with students to explore strategies for rebuilding community infrastructure in the Caribbean Islands following Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Jeanne lectures frequently throughout the world and serves on various civic and design-focused committees and advisory groups.
Renato Anelli presents Lina Bo Bardi in the Frame of Brazilian Architecture
Renato Anelli presents Lina Bo Bardi in the Frame of Brazilian Architecture Jan. 18, 2013 at Texas A&M's spring 2013 Architecture Lecture Series.
Bo Bardi (1914-1992), a Modernist Brazilian architect who designed the São Paulo Museum of Art and The Glass House was hailed in a 1992 magazine article as the greatest and most complete Brazilian architect of her time.
Anelli, a professor at the Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo at São Carlos, researches modern and contemporary architecture in Brazil with special attention to its relationship with European and U. S architecture.
For more about the Architecture Lecture series, visit one.arch.tamu.edu/news/2013/1/15/spring2013-architecture-lectures-lecture-series/
Rachel Dorothy Tanur Lecture: Jan Gehl, Livable Cities for the 21st Century
4/12/16
In an important paradigm shift around 1960, urban planning was undertaken at a very large scale in response to the challenges of rapidly growing cities. At the same time, traffic planning began to dominate planning at eye level, to address the rapid influx of cars into cities. The concern for the people using cities that had been maintained over centuries of tradition and experience was completely left behind. The idea of cities for people was overlooked and forgotten.
In his lecture, Jan Gehl will summarize this history, which is laid out in his book Cities for People (Island Press, 2010), and go on to explain why looking after people is crucial for the quality of cities in the 21st century; how it can be accomplished; and how it is actually done now in many projects and cities. He will show how, after decades of neglect, cities for people is once again a central theme in architecture, urban design, and city planning; and how the transformations carried out by Gehl Architects in Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, New York, Moscow, and other cities exemplify this new people oriented direction in planning.
Jan Gehl began his practice in the early 1960s with a period of research on public space, supported by a grant from his university, which resulted in the book Life Between Buildings (1971). Focusing on the spaces between buildings, he developed an approach to urban design and planning, based on observation of life in public spaces, in particular the assessment and measurement of usage patterns and quality of life.
Gehl is founder and senior advisor of the urban design consultancy Gehl Architects, with expertise in architecture, urban design, and city planning. With members who have backgrounds in architecture, urban design, sociology, anthropology, and cultural theory, the firm has made a name for itself with a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to urban planning that entails not only the application of urban design theory and ideology but also the use of data and analytical strategy. It has undertaken major improvement projects for cities, including Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Riga, Edinburgh, Perth (WA), Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Amman, Oman, Cape Town, London, New York and Moscow.
Parallel to his firm’s work, Jan Gehl has authored and coauthored various publications—including New City Life (2006), Cities for People (2010), and How to Study Public Life (2013)—in which he has further developed and shared his techniques of observation and analysis. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where, in 1998, he founded the Center for Public Space Research; he has also taught at universities in Edinburgh, Vilnius, Oslo, Toronto, Calgary, Melbourne, Perth, Berkeley, San José, Guadalajara, and Capetown.
Among many honors, Gehl has been awarded the International Union of Architects' Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for Exemplary Contributions to Town Planning, as well as honorary doctoral degrees from Universities in Edinburgh and Toronto. He is an honorary fellow of architectural institutes in Denmark, England (RIBA), USA, Canada, and Scotland, as well as the planning Institutes in Australia and Ireland. His work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2012) and the Venice Architectural Biennale in 2008, 2012 and 2016.
“First life, then spaces, then buildings – the other way around never works.” ~Jan Gehl
Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida é um Sopro ( Completo) /Life is a Breath (Full )/english subtitles
Documentário completo A vida é um sopro a respeito da vida e obra de Oscar Niemeyer, arquiteto brasileiro.
Sinopse: O filme fala da história de Oscar Niemeyer, um mais reconhecidos arquitetos brasileiros. De forma descontraída trata de aquitetura, histórias do arquiteto, luta política e de sua paixão pelas mulheres. No documentário são mostradas belas imagens de muitas de suas obras, a Casa das Canoas, o Palácio do Planalto, a Sede do Partido Comunista Francês, a Universidade de Constantine, o MAC Niterói, entre outras.
Participaram do documentário José Saramago, Carlos Heitor Cony, Eduardo Galeano, Ferreira Gullar, Eric Hobsbawn, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Mário Soares, Chico Buarque e Ítalo Campofiorito. Recebeu o prêmio de Melhor Documentário, por unanimidade, no 1º Festival Internacional de Documentários Atlantidoc, no Uruguai, em dezembro de 2007. A primeiras imagens do filme foram feitas em 1998, embora o filme só tenha sido lançado em 20 de abril de 2007.
Challenges to Brazilian Democracy Conference – Political Exile under the Bolsonaro Government
Welcome: James N. Green, Director, Brown Brazil Initiative
Brief Presentation of U.S. Observatory for Democracy in Brazil Website
Keynote Panel: What Does It Mean to Be a Political Exile under the Bolsonaro Government?
Débora Diniz, professor of anthropology and law
Jean Wyllys, journalist, former congressman
Márcia Tiburi, professor of philosophy
The recent election of Jair Bolsonaro to the Brazilian presidency has raised new questions about the state of democracy in Brazil. Are his campaign promises to criminalize social movements, stop the demarcation of indigenous lands, and eliminate opposition political parties merely electoral rhetoric? What does increased deforestation of the Amazon and other sensitive ecological zones mean for the environment? What is the fate of academic and cultural freedom under a new government whose supporters speak, among other questions, against “gender ideology” and “political correctness,” which can be read as veiled critiques of the women’s and the LGBTQI+ movements and the ideas of progressive social sectors? Will new gun policies result in more deaths in rural and urban areas, and particularly among people of African and indigenous descent? To what extent are human rights, especially among low-income citizens, under threat? This international conference, organized jointly with colleagues from Harvard University, will bring together scholars and social and cultural activists to analyze the current situation in Brazil and assess these and other threats to democracy posed by President Bolsonaro’s far-right agenda. At the Conference, we will also launch the US Observatory for Democracy in Brazil, an English-language website documenting recent events in the country, and have a strategic discussion about how U.S.-based academics and activists can defend democracy in Brazil.
Galeria de Arte de Stella Lopes na CASA COR Brasília 2015
Galeria de Arte - Stella Lopes. Os tons de cinza não predominam por acaso: eles são ideais para valorizar as obras expostas, da Associação Candanga de Artes Visuais. Algumas molduras em estilo barroco delimitam paredes em uma versão atual. O piso com aparência de mármore Carrara é ecologicamente correto e dá a sensação de estar em um palácio. Os bancos foram produzidos por antigos alunos da Universidade de Brasília (UnB).
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10 Top Tourist Attractions in Rio de Janeiro - Travel Video
With its white sandy beaches, soaring mountains and picturesque harbor, it’s no wonder that Rio de Janeiro is known as the marvelous city. Facing the South Atlantic coast, the second-largest city in Brazil is blessed with one of the most beautiful natural settings for a metropolis in the world. The dazzling landscape is just one of the reasons that visitors flock to Rio. During carnival season, the streets fill with music and ornately costumed dancers, attracting revelers from all over the globe. At any time of year, visitors won’t want to miss the top tourist attractions in Rio de Janeiro.
Barry Bergdoll, Learning from the Americas: Gropius and Breuer in the New World
Barry Bergdoll will present a short lecture on Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, arguing that the Bauhaus emigrés did not only have an impact at Harvard; they were types and models for the New World in general, with considerable attention from Latin America in particular. With responses by Michael Hays, Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory, and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design.
Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.
Part of the series “Then and Now: Walter Gropius and the Lineage of the Bauhaus,” sponsored by the Breger Fund in Honor of Walter Gropius.
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Opening of the World Water Forum in Mexico city
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2. Wide of Aztec water dance initiating forum
3. Mexico's President Vicente Fox with others at Water Forum inauguration
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Loic Fauchon, President of the World Water Council:
Water is in danger and with it so are we, for the situation made for water in the world is unacceptable. Unacceptable also is the lack of water and its poor quality, which last year caused ten times more death than all of the wars waged in the planet together. Unacceptable are the hundreds of millions of children who each morning must walk many hours in search of water which is must to scarce.
5. Wide shot forum
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vicente Fox, President of Mexico:
What we do with water, we do to ourselves and those we love most. Water is a common good, which all governments should guarantee. In the Democratic Mexico of today, the care and preservation of water are strategic matters and of national security.
7. Wide shot forum
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8. Various shots of indigenous groups chanting outside archaeological museum
STORYLINE:
Experts from 121 nations gathered in Mexico City on Thursday for seven days of talks aimed at resolving the world's water crises.
Meanwhile demonstrators protested against privatisation, dam projects and water extraction from poor Indian communities.
Security in the city was on high alert around the site of the forum, as protesters marched to the convention centre where Mexican President Vicente Fox inaugurated the forth World Water Forum.
Police authorities said they would keep protesters at least a mile (1.6 kilometres) from the heavily guarded centre.
Forum organisers set a goal of improving water access for the poor, but similar past efforts have failed.
The poor pay vastly more money to private corporations for their water today than they did when the first global water forum was held in Marrakech, Morocco, in 1997.
World Water Council President Loic Fauchon called the current water situation unacceptable.
The lack of water and its poor quality... caused ten times more death than all of the wars waged in the planet together. Fauchon said.
Outright privatisation of water systems has been a hard sell since 2000, when thousands of Bolivians protested rate increases in water contracts held by foreign companies.
The protests left seven demonstrators dead and forced the companies out of the country.
Bottled water, on the other hand, has earned good profits and little attention.
Mexico - where about 40 percent of the nation's 103 million residents live in poverty - is a poster child for the phenomenon.
The country is now the second-largest consumer of bottled water in the world, just behind the United States in terms of volume and behind Italy in per capita consumption.
Water is a common good, which all governments should guarantee. In the Democratic Mexico of today, the care and preservation of water are strategic matters and of national security. President Vicente Fox said.
Outside Mexico's archaeological museum, indigenous groups performed typical rituals and dances in honour of the water Gods.
Many of the 20 million residents of this metropolis get by on as little as one hour of running water per week, while almost all the copious rainfall is flushed unused down the sewers, creating a gargantuan flow of waste water that the city's few treatment plants can't handle.
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What is HOME for people across the world?
The capital of Brazil was built just a few decades ago. Fully imagined and designed above the drawing board. Every square meter carefully planned from a piece of savannah. Urban builders were able to find unhindered answers to the most fundamental question: with which architecture do we contribute to human happiness? Brasilia had to be the ideal city. The architects had a city with a lot of space and greenery. A city where all layers of the population could find their place in an environment that would pay close attention to the human dimension. Happiness was ready to be picked up and only had to be filled in by the inhabitants. For example, by an engineering family in Brasilia, who in this episode asks the question: How happy do you get from living in Brasilia? And what does the ideal home look like for other families in Turkey, the Netherlands, Russia, China, the US and Kenya?
The world in seven days is a seven episodes documentary series that reviews seven themes with seven families from seven countries around the world. How does the world love, from Nairobi to Apeldoorn? How do people relate to their work and their family - in L.A., Moscow and Istanbul? The new program The world in seven days is a poetic and personal journey based on seven different families, countries, cultures, norms, values, beliefs and history. Are we very different, or do we all look for the same thing in our daily lives?
With: the family Tastan (Turkey); Kennedy Odhiambo Onyango (Kenya); the family Sun (China); Anjoke and Maarten (Netherlands); Denis and Maria Abramov (Russia); the family Berberian (Brazil); and Steffie Nelson (USA).
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Research: Koos de Wilt
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Le Corbusier Animation: Design And Influence Of Architect & Designer, Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier Animation: Design And Influence Of Architect, Designer & Painter, Le Corbusier
A visual journey through the design and influence of Le Corbusier, set to music.
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who was better known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America.
Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès international d'architecture moderne (CIAM). Corbusier prepared the master plan for the planned city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs for several buildings there.
Le Corbusier was at his most influential in the sphere of urban planning, and was a founding member of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). One of the first to realize how the automobile would change human agglomerations, Le Corbusier described the city of the future as consisting of large apartment buildings isolated in a park-like setting on pilotis. Le Corbusier's theories were adopted by the builders of public housing in Europe and the United States. In Great Britain urban planners turned to Le Corbusier's Cities in the Sky as a cheaper method of providing public housing from the late 1950s.[21] For the design of the buildings themselves, Le Corbusier criticized any effort at ornamentation. The large spartan structures in cities, but not 'of' cities, have been widely criticized for being boring and unfriendly to pedestrians.
Throughout the years, many architects worked for Le Corbusier in his studio, and a number of them became notable in their own right, including painter-architect Nadir Afonso, who absorbed Le Corbusier's ideas into his own aesthetics theory. Lúcio Costa's city plan of Brasília and the industrial city of Zlín planned by František Lydie Gahura in the Czech Republic are notable plans based on his ideas, while the architect himself produced the plan for Chandigarh in India. Le Corbusier's thinking also had profound effects on the philosophy of city planning and architecture in the Soviet Union, particularly in the Constructivist era.
Le Corbusier was heavily influenced by problems he saw in industrial cities at the turn of the 20th century. He thought that industrial housing techniques led to crowding, dirtiness, and a lack of a moral landscape. He was a leader of the modernist movement to create better living conditions and a better society through housing concepts. Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of Tomorrow heavily influenced Le Corbusier and his contemporaries.
Le Corbusier had a great influence on architects and urbanists all the world. In the United States, Shadrach Woods; in Spain, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza; in Brazil, Oscar Niemeyer; In Mexico, Mario Pani Darqui; in Chile, Roberto Matta; in Argentina, Antoni Bonet i Castellana (a Catalan exile), Juan Kurchan, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Amancio Williams, and Clorindo Testa in his first era; in Uruguay, the professors Justino Serralta and Carlos Gómez Gavazzo; in Colombia, Germán Samper Gnecco, Rogelio Salmona, and Dicken Castro; in Peru, Abel Hurtado and José Carlos Ortecho.
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Encontro das Águas (Meeting of Waters) | Clarissa Tossin || Radcliffe Institute
As part of the 2017–2018 Fellows’ Presentation Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Clarissa Tossin RI ’18 shares a collection of her works that are linked together by the common themes of circulation and displacement, spanning a period of almost 10 years.
Tossin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California.
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Todos los ganadores del Pritzker ¡El Nobel de la Arquitectura!
Si buscas un video en donde hablen de todos los ganadores del premio Pritzker hasta el 2018, lo acabas de encontrar. Un resumen de los arquitectos más destacados del mundo. Indice abajo ♥
El Pritzker muchas veces es nombrado el Nobel de la Arquitectura, se otorga cada año al o los arquitectos vivos cuyo trabajo combine cualidades de talento, visión y compromiso, y que haya producido contribuciones consistentes y significativas para la humanidad y el entorno construido a través del arte de la arquitectura.
Hice un resumen de menos de 1 minuto para cada uno de los 41 ganadores, pero sin duda hay mucho que hablar de cada uno. Si quieres los links de los artículos que leí y los videos / documentales que descargue para hacer este video, sígueme en FB: @MirosPeaceArq
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1980 Luis Barragán 0:42
1981 Sir James Stirling 1:17
1982 Kevin Roche 1:39
1983 Ieoh Ming Pei 2:03
1984 Richard Meier 2:34
1985 Hans Hollein 2:53
1986 Gottfried Böhm 3:23
1987 Kenzo Tange 3:53
1988 Gordon Bunshaft 4:29
1988 Oscar Niemeyer 5:04
1989 Frank Gehry 5:26
1990 Aldo Rossi 5:57
1991 Robert Venturi 6:30
1992 Álvaro Siza Vieira 7:15
1993 Fumihiko Maki 7:43
1994 Christian de Portzamparc 8:25
1995 Tadao Ando 9:10
1996 Rafael Moneo 10:00
1997 Sverre Fehn 10:30
1998 Renzo Piano 11:04
1999 Norman Foster 11.37
2000 Rem Koolhaas 12:13
2001 Herzog & de Meuron 12:45
2002 Glenn Murcutt 13:08
2003 Jørn Utzon 13:58
2004 Zaha Hadid 14:40
2005 Thom Mayne 15:18
2006 Paulo Mendes da Rocha 15:50
2007 Richard Rogers 16:27
2008 Jean Nouvel 16:58
2009 Peter Zumthor 17:22
2010 SANAA 18.01
2011 Eduardo Souto de Moura 18:30
2012 Wang Shu 18:55
2013 Toyō Itō 19:38
2014 Shigeru Ban 20:14
2015 Frei Otto 21:17
2016 Alejandro Aravena 21:36
2017 RCR Arquitectes 22:03
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The Design Competition Conference – The Future of Design Competitions and Closing Remarks
The closing panel will debate issues and critiques raised during
the conference and suggest visions and amendments for the future place and administration of competitions.
Panelists
Silvia Benedito | Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Marshall Brown | Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology,
School of Architecture
Stephen Cassell | Partner, Architecture Research Office
Reed Kroloff | Principal, jones | kroloff
Grace La | Principal, LA DALLMAN / Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Susanna Sirefman | Founder, Dovetail Design Strategists
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Jerold S. Kayden, David van der Leer
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Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Displacement | Dams and Displacement - Session 2
Skip ahead to main speaker at 2:49
A common thread of the Mellon Sawyer seminar is displacement as formative of power relations of inclusion and exclusion that have shaped global histories and had long term effects on multiple environments and forms of subjectivity.
The seminar's second event will focus on the impact of the construction of dams. Large dams represent the most visible ugly face of forced displacement due to development projects by affecting some of the weakest sections of society. By bringing together academics and planners at the same table, this seminar looks at how resettlement of affected groups is planned and what are its long-term socioeconomic implications.
This recording includes:
Joy A. Bilharz
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, State University of New York College at Fredonia
Paper: It's Still our Home; It's just that we Don't Live Here Anymore: The forced relocation of Allegany Senecas due to the Kinzua dam in Pennsylvania
Heather Randell
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland, Annapolis, MD
Paper: Development, Dams, and Displacement in the Amazon: The Case of Brazil's Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex
Moderator: Vikramaditya Thakur
Mellow Sawyer Postdoctoral Research Associate, Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
This series is funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Rio de Janeiro | Wikipedia audio article
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Rio de Janeiro (; Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈnejɾu]; River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area, the second-most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea, by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. Later, in 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court transferred itself from Portugal to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the chosen seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal, who subsequently, in 1815, under the leadership of her son, the Prince Regent, and future King João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves. Rio stayed the capital of the pluricontinental Lusitanian monarchy until 1822, when the War of Brazilian Independence began. This is one of the few instances in history that the capital of a colonising country officially shifted to a city in one of its colonies. Rio de Janeiro subsequently served as the capital of the independent monarchy, the Empire of Brazil, until 1889, and then the capital of a republican Brazil until 1960 when the capital was transferred to Brasília.
Rio de Janeiro has the second largest municipal GDP in the country, and 30th largest in the world in 2008, estimated at about R$343 billion (IBGE, 2008) (nearly US$201 billion). It is headquarters to Brazilian oil, mining, and telecommunications companies, including two of the country's major corporations – Petrobras and Vale – and Latin America's largest telemedia conglomerate, Grupo Globo. The home of many universities and institutes, it is the second-largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific output according to 2005 data. Despite the high perception of crime, the city has a lower incidence of crime than Northeast Brazil, but it is far more criminalized than the south region of Brazil, which is considered the safest in the country.Rio de Janeiro is one of the most visited cities in the Southern Hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, Carnival, samba, bossa nova, and balneario beaches such as Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon. In addition to the beaches, some of the most famous landmarks include the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado mountain, named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World; Sugarloaf Mountain with its cable car; the Sambódromo (Sambadrome), a permanent grandstand-lined parade avenue which is used during Carnival; and Maracanã Stadium, one of the world's largest football stadiums. Rio de Janeiro was the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, making the city the first South American and Portuguese-speaking city to ever host the events, and the third time the Olympics were held in a Southern Hemisphere city. The Maracanã Stadium held the finals of the 1950 and 2014 FIFA World Cups, the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and the XV Pan American Games.