The urbanization process of Brazilian cities took place at an accelerated rate throughout the twentieth century. The last IBGE Census (2010a) indicated that approximately 86% of Brazilian households were in urban areas. As a result of this accelerated growth, problems have arisen that directly affect the quality of life and increase the need for urban planning actions, with the aim of making cities safer places to live (Mazetto, 2000; Duarte, 2013). The result of this accelerated urbanization was an increase in land illegality, in which part of the population of large cities began to live in precarious and irregular settlements (Rolnik, 2006). In the case of the city of Rio de Janeiro, it showed high rates of population growth before the industrialization process occurred in the country, causing a housing crisis in the city at the end of the 19th century (Gonçalves, 2013). In this period, the city started to receive infrastructure and sanitation interventions, in addition to actions to improve the healthiness of collective housing, which were considered the focus of diseases (Rezende, 2002). In addition, the inefficiency of the public transport system and the absence of effective housing policies encouraged the poorest populations to occupy the peripheries and hills located in the central region of the city. In this way, the first slums were established (Gonçalves, 2013). The growth of the slums in the city of Rio de Janeiro presented an even higher pace than the demographic growth of the other areas of the city, and in 2010 it represented more than 20 percent of the population (Cavallieri and Vial, 2012). With this scenario, it became very necessary to create instruments and public policies for territorial planning and management (Pequeno, 2008). However, despite being the subject of several of these public policies, including constant urban interventions, the current situation of the slums in the city of Rio de Janeiro still presents precarious services and infrastructure, as well as insecurity in its various facets - such as, for example, as to unhealthiness, geological and public security risks.