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Last week I had my view on favela. If you dropped by, please regard that this sequence started with favela. If you are lost, start again with the beginning called favela. Today it’s the Megalopolis. Below you see the diagram (added as cover for feed-subscribers).

Auf könnt Ihr Stadtgefüge Megalopolis hier nachlesen.
External Links:
- When a Favela Dared to Become a Gated Condominium is a publication by João H. Costa Vargas, Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas. You can download the whole PDF of 34 pages, too.
- Lendo Música is a book on the public rehearsals from Samba to Carioca Funk.
- Favela protesta em lançamento de condomínio bilionário, protest by favelados with some fotos.
- Favela x Condomínio Where do people prefer to live?
- About 3 Enclaves: Favela, Condominio, Shopping, a philosophical text by architect Carlos M. Teixeira.

If you still remember the story of RadioFavela is subtitled ‘Not assumable becomes consumable … becomes subsumable‘. The links here refer to RadioFavela’s website, where you can read the theoretical texts.

With the chapter ‘not assumable’ I tried to explain the situation in Rio (or in Megacities in general), you can listen to it again in the category RF01 – not assumable.
The middle part ‘RF02 – consumable‘ is any cultural production I had the chance to catch for you. This is definitely the most enjoyable part.

Now it becomes ‘subsumable’ which is my response to all what I have gone through here in Rio, which is a RadioProductionCentre in the carioca harbour zone. Within the next four podcasts you can follow step by step my understanding of the favela via the city to my RadioProductionCentre in a very high abstraction grade.


The diagram above illustrates the text you will listen to. For those who get the podcast via feed I added the image as cover.

Auf könnt Ihr Favela hier nachlesen.
Next Monday it will be continued with ‘Urban Landscape ‘Megalopolis”

“The intellectual, artistic, scientific freedom of opinion and press is guaranteed without censure or authorisation.” From the Brazilian constitution, Article 5
So any citizen has the right to express himself – even favelados. It is a basic right like breathing, thinking, living.

Why are local radio stations so important for favelados?

The statistics ‘level on education’ and ‘matters of local radio stations’ can be viewed on the RadioFavela site.
Auf könnt Ihr Lokalradios hier nachlesen. Dort findet Ihr auch die Statistiken über Ausbildungsniveau und Themen der Lokalradios in Brasilien.

Related Posts and Sites
- World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters available in English, français y español
- Interviews with Ruben César Fernandes, executive director of Viva Rio.
- other posts on the RadioProductionCentre (RPC)