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Originally Posted by iheartthed
That looks like City of God.
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Probably as according to Wikipedia it was established in the late 1960's. It decayed badly and today looks like a slum despite technically not be one:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ci...!4d-43.3697197
Most, however, had much better future. This one it's in my hometown Londrina:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-23.252...7i13312!8i6656 . This whole big chunk of Londrina was built in the late 1970's and looked exactly like the pic above. It's still one of the lowest income areas of the city, but improved over the years.
Rio de Janeiro is an extreme case, for so many reasons, since the removal of the capital to losing its status of country's primate city, coupled with horrible governance and crime.
BTW, the pic I posted it has like three years ago. It's a very enduring built form for public housing in Brazil, used in every single state over so many decades. Those projects are becoming less frequent and usually smaller only because cities are growing slowly. Here the street view of a relatively new one (built in the last decade) in upstate São Paulo:
https://www.google.com/maps/@-21.722...7i16384!8i8192