Bichir, who evaluated social programs in the Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, wemt to Rio for a seminar at UFRJ.

Produced by the Center for Metropolitan Studies, the work includes the review process of urban theories from the processes taking place in the southern cities

The results were used to create the book, “The Metropolis of the Twenty-First Century: Spaces, Heterogeneities and Inequalities,” released in Brazil by publisher UNESP (2015); and in the UK by Routledge publishing house (2016). 

At the end of the 80s, artists like the Rational MCs began to adopt a more critical stance and denunciation.

The political scientist and professor Marta Arretche, from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of USP, talks about the research and the objectives of the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM).