{"id":5907,"date":"2016-08-22T10:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2016-08-31T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T18:18:55","slug":"stanford-historian-explores-social-roots-of-rio-de-janeiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/stanford-historian-explores-social-roots-of-rio-de-janeiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford historian explores social roots of Rio de Janeiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">August 2016<\/p>\n<p>Tom Winterbottom \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2016\/08\/02\/stanford-historian-explores-roots-rio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Standford University<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rio de Janeiro, site of the past Summer Olympics, is firmly in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>With controversy surrounding preparations for the games, impeachment proceedings looming against President Dilma Rousseff and threats from the Zika virus, it is a symbol of Brazil\u2019s larger instability.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=12061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" tabindex=\"0\" alt=\"Professor Zephyr Frank and cover of his new book &quot;Reading Rio de Janeiro&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/ci5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/zGgbC5HFpwm0_PXHIr5aC6WgqnedREZx0HzB7nyMYp2EvxqDWz-4bW58Rqd9ppBk8p2dNasYS49hWPYZb9Enntme-YoW-MXVXP41UmGzcYspemHzj0cWHrIrddPEo8e01HG91YzuHM-fvNn9o2n3bXZoREW1GZELrYRr7zjrEJsoMK-8CxeHpRMboC6U2msRwQXY=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/stanford.ucomm.newsms.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01133816\/RioReview_news-795x530.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a>Stanford history Professor Zephyr Frank used up-to-date methods of digital analysis to explore 19th-century life in the Brazilian city hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics for his book\u00a0<em>Reading Rio de Janeiro.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>That has led one Stanford scholar to look back in history to uncover the complex social foundations of the contemporary city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the challenges facing citizens today, such as access to housing, public health and education, have their foundations in the 19th century,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/history.stanford.edu\/people\/zephyr-frank\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/history.stanford.edu\/people\/zephyr-frank&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1471953916398000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHwT-3JoO_AusfR8jXUXwgk8rYxHg\">Zephyr Frank<\/a>, professor of history and former director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cesta.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/cesta.stanford.edu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1471953916398000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGMRkN0i7d-kMnRgUKheKFVgPnm-A\">Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis<\/a>\u00a0at Stanford. 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