In the Dreams favela, in the Brazilian city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Crislaine Fernandes da Silva strolls to work for her morning conference call. She works out of a shipping container that’s...
In the late 1990s, Recife, on Brazil’s northeastern coast, was in decline. Its picturesque historic center, made up of 17th century colonial buildings with Dutch, Portuguese, and French influences, had plunged into...