Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro 
Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro [PDF ebook] 
Development, Segregation, and Governance

Part I: Territory, Economy and Society.- Production Transformations.- Spatial Transformations.- Social Transformations.- Demographic Transformations.- Family Transformations.- Part II: Segregation and Inequalities.- Segregation and Population Displacement.- Segregation and Real Estate Production.- Segregation and Occupational Inequalities.- Segregation and Educational Inequalities.- Segregation and “Racial” Inequalities.- Part III: Citizenship, Public Policy and Metropolitan Governance.- The Favela in the City-Commodity: Deconstruction of a Social Question.- Political Culture, Citizenship and the Representation of the Urbs without Civitas: The Metropolis of Rio de Janeiro.- Local Democracy and Metropolitan Governance.- Entrepreneurial Governance: Neoliberal Modernization.-Transport Management: The Renovation of the Road Pact. 

Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro is Professor at the Institute of Urban and Regional Research and Planning (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the national coordinator of the Metropolis Observatory (INCT) and Visiting Professor at the Social Sciences Institute at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.  
His research specialties include: urbanization, metropolis, urban dynamics, national territory, socio-spatial inclusion/segregation in metropolis, urban governance and management.