This study analyzes the socio-urban changes in the context of the Vidigal favela under the focus of gentrification, since this location has become the main example of the phenomenon, in the Rio de Janeiro scenario, since the 2010s. For this, the study plan sought to rescue the events prior to gentrification for a better understanding and analysis of the studied location. Thus, the historical survey of the English urban context, focusing on London in the 17th and 19th centuries, shows how the constitution of the industrial city and the working class took place, as well as the promotion of housing for this class. Afterwards, the presentation of who Ruth Glass was and of her works reveals the author s way of acting and her position in the face of the urban changes she was experiencing, which shows what she wanted to show with the creation of the neologism. The details given to the main categories of analysis used in the theoretical arguments about gentrification promote a broader clarification and provide a reflective autonomy for any reader. In the second chapter, the emphasis given to different forms of housing removal, aimed at low-income populations, which always occur to favor land appropriation by classes with greater economic power, seeks to integrate gentrification as a new form of removal, still that presented from the population change that definitely does not include the previous one, and therefore, fits as removal and not transformation. I understand it as a way of removing poor populations from the valued urban environment. Conceptions about white removal, removal by color and race, and housing filtration are explained. And, in the third chapter, the rescue of Vidigal s history brings its differential in the Rio de Janeiro urban environment and shows how the spatial transformations that have taken place over the past decade serve as a basis for gentrifying discourses. And, the surveys carried out emphasize the plural understanding of the phenomenon.