Toronto is "taking advantage" of the Pan American Games in a way that Rio de Janeiro "has not" with the 2016 Olympics, according to Italo Nogueira of FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO. In Canada, the Games are being "used as an impulse to project the development" of Toronto. As the main legacy from the Pan Am, the Athletes' Village was "built in an old industrial area." Housing will be used by around 5,000 Games participants. The remaining units have been sold, will be used to house students or "will be offered to low-income families for reasonable prices." Rio "tried to use the Olympics to accelerate development of its port region in order to transfer the Media and Referees Villages" to that area. But, with delayed residential construction, which would offer 2,800 rooms once completed, the project was instead "moved to Curicica" in the city's west zone. Rio's port region, which has been "developing" at the cost of R$8B since '11, will now "only receive one area for events during the Olympics." In addition to housing differences, unlike Rio, Toronto "will not demolish a bypass that intersects its edge and intensifies the degradation of the region." Toronto city council "decided to maintain" the Gardiner expressway, whereas Rio "took down the elevated Perimetral, a decision applauded by urbanists" (FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO, 7/8).
