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Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro (1st Edition) by Janice E. Perlman, Fernando Henrique Cardoso Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-19-536836-3 / 0195368363 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-536836-9 / 9780195368369 A billion people, roughly half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for more than half a century and continue to outpace the rest of the city in growth. Janice Perlman's |