Noted for its provincial cosmopolitanism, Ipanema sustained relatively progressive ideological and liberal leanings through Brazils transition to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s (Castro 1999).22 During Brazils transition to democracy in the late 1980s and 1990s, Rio began a notable if uneven urban renaissance.23 After ambitious programs to widen traffic corridors, expand parks and beachfronts, and construct sewage infrastructure through the 1960s and 1970s, a relative civic decline marked the 1980s, when Rio lost its status as national capital to Braslia and its economic leadership to So Paulo
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