ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores how mobile the tourism researches on transport in Brazil are. They look for researchable entities, types of mobilities, and mobile methods in Brazilian papers published between 1990 and 2015. The book presents how the favelas of Rio de Janeiro are places of contested meanings. If in the past these areas were signified as deforested, risky, poor, and violent areas, problems that affect “the wonderful city”, in the context of the mega-events favelas, were under the spotlight. The book deals with one of the most important actions of the local government to prepare the city of Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics: the creation of the Rio Operations Center – COR. It shows how urban mobility has been a major challenge for Brazilian society, and its legal framework.
