Journal title TERRITORIO
Author/s Rodrigues Juciano Martins
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2013/64
Language English Pages 8 P. 40-47 File size 469 KB
DOI 10.3280/TR2013-064007
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In the next few years Brazil will receive the largest sum of investment in urban transport in the history of the country for the coming mega sports events. Theoretically, these investments should address the transport crisis that Brazilian cities are experiencing. The paper shows that the issue of transportation is present on the public agenda and in planning connected with mega events in strictly engineering terms. The ‘question of urban transportation’ is introduced and a discussion is given of its connection with the preparation of cities for the mega sports events starting with Rio de Janeiro. Here the huge resources involved will probably have deep impacts on urban dynamics and on the socio-spatial configuration of the city without, however, providing solutions to the long standing transportation problems of the more vulnerable population groups.
Keywords: Urban transportation; Rio de Janeiro; mega sports events
Rodrigues Juciano Martins, Urban mobility in the Olympic City: a "transportation revolution" in Rio de Janeiro? in "TERRITORIO" 64/2013, pp 40-47, DOI: 10.3280/TR2013-064007