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"Brazil, country of the future" is almost an axiom, an automatic statement, something like "Paris, the city of light" or "New York, the big apple"; derivations, perhaps, of the distinctions with which aristocrats were nicknamed: "Mary, the mad", "Ivan, the terrible", "Philip, the beautiful". On this occasion, Carla Zaccagnini proposes an investigation into the territory, natural resources and people of Brazil, based on the research of a series of publications such as the homonymous work...

Following the example of the French and English railway companies, the C.P. (Portuguese Company) promoted, between the 1910s and 1920s, the construction of buildings for housing and social facilities to support its employees and their families. In the first quarter of the 20th century, the Boneco neighbourhood...