Rochina favela

Case study by : Guy Ronen

Rio de Janeiro is a city located on the Brazilian's south-east coast. It is one of Brazil's largest settlements with a population of approximately 11.7 million people. The population of Rio de Janeiro has grown rapidly for two main reasons. Natural Increase (when the birth rate is higher than the death rate) along with rapid urbanization caused by a variety of push and pull factors. Millions of people have migrated from Brazil's rural areas to Rio de Janeiro. Infect 65% of urban growth is a result of migration.Has a resoled millions of migrants pushed to build there houses on the edge of the city in a poor neighborhood called the favelas. Some of them are located 50 km from the city center along main roads and up very steep hillsides.Rocinha favela is the largest favela in Brazil. It is located in the southern zone of the city. It is built on a steep hillside overlooking the city, just one kilometer from the beach. It is home of approximately 250,000 people .

Inside of Rocinha the government estimates that there are now some 5,000 locally owned businesses .

Although the economical advancement the main problem with Rocinha and other favelas is their problematical infrastructure, the buildings are dilapidated and the streets are narrow and clogged with motorbikes and pedestrians.

The capacity of Rochina infrastructure is overload, In order To encourage the economy the government and privet investment have to create a better connection between the favela and the center of Rio. One of the results of better transportation is reducing poverty and poverty outcomes.'

To deal with the increased urban growth and to create an effective urban regeneration it's necessary to build efficiency transport infrastructure .

The average cost of building a km of city road infrastructure in not cheap and that is with out measuring the connotative consequences of the road, such as air pollution, health problems and environmental distraction, which all cost billions each year .

New type of transportation is a necessity to continue the economic growth and to prevent the social problems which created due to geographical distance .

The helixator his able to mobile mass of people to distance, He can continue to maintain and develop the local economy - by leading masses of people efficientlyAs an environmental facility, flexible and takes up less surface area, Suitable Helixator himself to the environment in which it is located.This flexibility is allowing reducing the damage created by the construction of new transport infrastructure. Like - so it allows the reduction burden on existing infrastructure.Routes of helixator could link the inner streets of Rocinha to the main core of Rio.The Advantage of the potential development options is endless. Connecting the slums to the city and employment Centers, while allowing the poor to travel cheaply and efficiently, will impact positively on the entire economic system.The favels rose at the edge of the city because of high land prices in city. Factories in

order to use the cheap working force were established near them .For that rezones low income combine whit a high prices of public transportation and long walking distance to the city, have been immortalizing the status of the favels resident as poor.

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Based on the conception that better transportation lead to an economy growth, connecting the favelas people to the business and cultural core would break the

"poorness circle."The Helixator as a new transportation form could be the main player in that game.Farter more the fact that helixator whit his superior technology capable to pull flexible traffic routs in order to mobile mass of people in less time less expense and less pollution, by his compatibility To the existent geographical and topographic condition make him a solution to the poorness problem and to the overload transportation infrastructure .

Helixator lines

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The flexibility of the device allows the construction of stations along the primary and secondary axes.Time of arrival to the station of Helixator will decrease significantly as a result; the effectiveness of urban transport system will increase substantially. The possibility to mobile growing masses of people in a short time over long distances and three dimensionally will Change the face of the urban economy for ever .

Profit will increase twice or more because the device's flexibility allows him to maintain the existing environment.Beyond the ecological and psychological consequences of keeping the environment it will save many government funds. those budgets wasted on the external consequences of the construction of road infrastructure

Connecting the favels to the city core

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Economy growth

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Bibliography

Allport, R. (Halcrow Fox): Transport Services for the Urban Poor; conference paper “Infrastructure for Development”; 31 May - 2 June 2000, London

Deniz, B. , Christine K.: Urban Poverty, Draft 08/2000

Deutsche Gesellschaft für, Urban Transport and Poverty in Developing Countries, Eschborn, August 2002

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/urbanproblsledcs.html

http://www.pri.org/business/global-development/bringing-business-to-brazil-s-slums2406.html

http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/3346

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/brazil/rocinha_favelas_rio.htm

http://favelatours.org/rocinha

Guy Ronen is an urban and regional planner with a master degree from the Technion – Israel institute of technology.

guyronen9@walla.com

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