(X)Changing Ideas in Rocinha

TV Roc, the cable TV for Rocinha is now 15 years old and I was interested in how this has changed the community. Do the people really use this media? Dante Quinterno, the president, is there again to answer my questions.

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Unserious Stuff for a Serious Change

TV Roc offers mass weddings, mass x-mas, mass-collection of arms. Does this provoke a better day-to-day life in a favela?

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The Practical Urbanity in Rocinha

An interview with the carioca architect Carlos Luis Toledo about the favela urbanism in Rocinha.

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