ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the way the urban reforms have affected two unspectacular Favela's neighbourhoods where impacts have been partial and uneven, rather than dramatic. This analysis provides the basis for some broader reflections on the achievements and limitations of the city project'. Between the new Favela policies and those pursuing broader urban development aims, it seems certain that the Rio de Janeiro that emerges from the city project will be a very different place. The post-Third World city narrative argues that the city project reverses the segregating dynamics of Rio's historical development by focusing on measures that bring about physical and social integration, particularly between Favela's and formal areas. The cases of Tuiuti and Asa Branca seem to reveal some important features of the city project that are neither captured by the official post-Third World city narrative nor by the city of exception critique.
