With the arrivals of mega-events, the 2014 Fifa Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, Rio is getting ready for a radical transformation. Major building constructions are changing the urban landscapeand the relocation program that is undergoing in many areas, may also change the social geography, pushing the poor into the suburbs. While the city is going through a strong social contrasts and its historical memory seems in danger, the beach becomes, symbolically, the only place of democracy and remembrance. The beach becomes the set where life can daily represent itself in a more theatrical manner, immersed in an illusory world.
