Part. I. Introduction.- Part II. Context.- Chapter 1. The sporting mega-events inside the neoliberal experiment of urban development.- Chapter 2. Rio de Janeiro economic crisis and austerity reponses.- Chapter 3. From the dream of "new middle class" to the new urban poverty.- Chapter 4. The political crisis: urban entrepreneurship without a leader class.- Part III. Facts and reasons of the failures.- Chapter 5. Decomposition of the public security system.- Chapter 6. De-gentrification, urban sprawl and social racism.- Chapter 7. Decomposition of the urban mobility system.- Chapter 8. From the promise of integration to the legacy of exclusion: Policies for favelas in Rio de Janeiro (2007 - 2017).- Chapter 9. Porto Maravilha: The defeat of the real estate-financial model.- Chapter 10. Porto Maravilha: Decomposition of the coalition and repositioning of public agents.- Part IV. Reconstruction of city project. Resistance and new ways.- Chapter 11. The experience of tenement houses as forms of resistance in Downtown.- Chapter 12. Experiments of counter-hegemonic coalitions.- Chapter 13. cultural policies in dispute; spaces of possibilities in front of Porto Maravilha.- Conclusion.