Will the city’s more accessible and safer favelas be a laddered version of Santa Teresa, with funky pizzarias and tapas bars, cool sidewalk music and superb views? Will many of their residents, land titles in hand, have sold up and moved to Guaratiba, Santa Cruz or Rio das Pedras? Will the city then continue divvied up into pockets of the like-minded, with funkeiros, hipsters and Country Club members each snuggling in their comfort zones? Or will Rio manage to maintain and feed a rich mosaic that draws us across zones and through tunnels into the sort of chance encounters that spark creativity and light up lives?
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