"Perlman has produced an excellent, exhaustive study of life in the 1,020 favelas [of] Rio de Janeiro.... Her measured approach is all the more compelling because as she investigates the deprivation a
Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries t
