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520: 511: 47: 277:. After restructuring the company, in 1884, Pereira Passos proposes to the shareholders the acquisition of the Italian project Giuseppe Fogliani, for the construction of a great avenue. Despite the shareholders' approval and the construction license obtained, the project did not go out of print. However, this would be more an anticipation of what would come to occur in his management as mayor 20 years later: the opening of Avenida Central. 260:
He returned to Europe in 1880 and remained in Paris until 1881. In the meantime he attended courses at the Sorbonne and the Collége de France, visiting factories, steel mills, transport companies and public works in Europe. Still in 1881 he became a consultant for Compagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer
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He was appointed engineer of the Ministry of the Empire in 1874, and it is up to Pereira Passos to accompany all the works of the imperial government. He was part of the commission that was to present the city's overall urban reform plan, including widening streets, building major avenues, channeling
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The reform promoted a great valorization of the soil in the central area, still partially occupied by the low income population. About 1,600 old residential buildings were demolished. As a result of these demolitions, the poor population of the city center was forced to live with other families, to
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pay high rents or to move to the suburbs, since the popular housing constructed to replace the demolished ones was insufficient. A large part of the immense population affected by the remodeling remained in the region and the hills located in the center of the city -
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He studied in France from 1857 to the end of 1860, where he attended the urban reform of Paris promoted by Georges-Eugène Haussmann. His stay in Paris had a profound influence on Passos, who was to devote himself to railway engineering and urban planning.
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On his return to Brazil, he moved to Paraná and only after the railroad was inaugurated in 1882, he returned to the capital. On his return, he assumed the chairmanship of Companhia Ferro-Carril de São Cristóvão, replacing the
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On his return to Brazil in 1860, Pereira Passos dedicates himself to the construction and expansion of the Brazilian railway network, under the demand of the coffee economy. He participated in the construction of the
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rivers among other urban and sanitary measures. The survey carried out from 1875 to 1876 would be the basis of the future master plan of the city, put into practice in the administration of Passos as mayor.
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Appointed mayor by President Rodrigues Alves, Pereira Passos promoted a great urban reform in the city, with the goal of transforming it into a modern French-style capital, a "
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with slopes of up to 20%, to run the railway extension to Petrópolis. System that would still be used later in the first tourist railrway of Brazil,
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Passos was son of Antônio Pereira Passos, Barão de Mangaratiba, and Clara Oliveira. Until the age of fourteen he was raised at the Bálsamo Farm, in
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Despite improvements in sanitation and urban development, Pereira Passos's plan entailed a high social cost, with the beginning of formation of
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district, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. In March 1852 he joined the then Military School, now the Polytechnic School of the
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Inspired by the Haussmann reforms, in four years Pereira Passos transformed the city's appearance: the
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Lembranças do Brasil: as capitais brasileiras nos cartões-postais e álbuns de lembranças
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Brésiliens, to accompany the construction of a railway line in Paraná, linking the
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Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro
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Pereira Passos died on March 12, 1913, boarding the ocean liner
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He returned to Europe in 1871, in the company of the
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of Brazil from 1902 to 1906, nominated by President
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Index

Portuguese name
family name

Mayor of the Federal District
Carlos Ribeiro
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Francisco M. de Aguiar
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São João Marcos
Rio de Janeiro
Empire of Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Federal District
Rodrigues Alves
Georges-Eugène Haussmann
Paris
São João Marcos
Rio Claro
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Benjamin Constant
Santos-Jundiaí Railroad
Viscount of Mauá
Mount Righi
Corcovado Railrway
Port of Paranaguá
Curitiba
Viscount of Taunay
cortiços
Avenida Rio Branco
Avenida Atlântica

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