Favela as a Sustainable Model
Sustainable principles already exist in Rio’s favelas, but they are so organic that they go unnoticed. Pedestrian friendly roads, use of bicycles and collective transportation, local commerce, organic architecture, and fundamentally, values such as solidarity and a sense of collectivity that are so natural in the favelas that we call them communities.
This film by Catalytic Communities premiered at the Rio+20 conference.
An extremely colorful article, and I mean that literally.
