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1: View of the city centre of the "Old Lady"; in the background the landmark of the city: Sugar Loaf Mountain; in the foreground: a post-modern church building.
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
2: Flamengo: Upper-class district of about 1930 to about 1960, with older upper-class Art Nouveau villa.
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
3: Present-day upper-class district at the beachfront of Leblon; mixture of high-standard hotels and luxury apartments (apartment size up to 650 m², price up to 2 Mio. USD).
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
4: Favelas (the first dates back to 1895) are considered worldwide as a negative characteristic of Rio. They can predominantly be found at the "morros" (rock "humps" with almost no vegetation and hardly covered by any layer of soil); location: Vila Isabel.
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
5: Favelas in the immediate neighbourhood of inner city hig-rise districts; location: Santa Teresa; the division between an old consolidated favela and new huts built into the slope becomes clearly visible.
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
6: Pedestrian path in a "consolidated" favela; location Tijuca.
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
7: Large-scale settlements of subsidized housing (location: Avenido do Brasil); in the early 80s more and more high-rise buildings were erected; it is clearly visible that these constructions did not reach those in need of social assistance.
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
8: In the foreground the municipal theatre (Teatro Municipal), completed in 1912, built of marble and modelled on the Paris opera; in the background the high-rises of Avenida Rio Branco, the at its time magnificent boulevard created in 1905 and shaped according to Paris examples (Haussmann!), during the building of which many inner-city marginal districts were "reconstructed"; today one of the major business and banking streets in Rio.
© G. Mertins, 2001 [back to picture]
