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Designing cities below sea level: Paraty, Brazil

Oct 6, 2023

Paraty is a small town and tourist location on Brazil's Costa Verde, between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Rising as high as 1,300 meters behind the town are tropical forests and mountains. The village was founded in 1597 and established formally as a town by...

The case of Atafona

Oct 18, 2022

Atafona is a Brazilian town of 6,000 people, 200 miles up the coast from the famed beaches of Rio’s Copacabana and Ipanema. "The sea devoured [Atafona's] historic lighthouse, bars, nightclubs, markets, a four-story hotel, a gas station for boats, a school, sumptuous...