Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, Farès el-Dahdah and Alida C. Metcalf discuss imagineRio, a searchable atlas platform that illustrates the social and urban evolution of Rio de Janeiro over the entire history of the city, as it existed and as it was often imagined.

"São Paulo: A Graphic Biography, examines the evolution of the region's urban form, tracing through original drawings, archival material, and text, its transformation from a small town to a vast metropolitan region. In doing so, the material documented in this book constructs a diachronic visual account of the city's urban form throughout the twentieth century."