Figures
Looking down, looking up
Neighborhood children taking respite in the quiet, peaceful courtyard of Igreja da Penha, a church atop a hill overlooking a sprawling favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the distance is an aerial lift spanning Complexo Alemao, a large slum community once occupied by the Brazilian military in its anti-gang operation. First of its kind in Brazil, the aerial lift was inaugurated in 2011 and was designed to transport about 30,000 people per day, reducing a commute time of more than 1 hour to less than 20 minutes. In 2016, its operation was suspended by the State of Rio de Janeiro due to lack of funds. Faria et al.
Image Credit: Lee W. Riley
Citation: (2017) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 11(3) March 2017. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(3): ev11.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v11.i03
Published: March 31, 2017
Copyright: © 2017 Riley. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Neighborhood children taking respite in the quiet, peaceful courtyard of Igreja da Penha, a church atop a hill overlooking a sprawling favela community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the distance is an aerial lift spanning Complexo Alemao, a large slum community once occupied by the Brazilian military in its anti-gang operation. First of its kind in Brazil, the aerial lift was inaugurated in 2011 and was designed to transport about 30,000 people per day, reducing a commute time of more than 1 hour to less than 20 minutes. In 2016, its operation was suspended by the State of Rio de Janeiro due to lack of funds. Faria et al.
Image Credit: Lee W. Riley