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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2001
    Mexico, Argentina

    El estudio de la propiedad y la tenencia de la tierra en México, es uno de los temas que mayor interés ha despertado entre los historiadores de distintas generaciones. La desigualdad en el acceso a la tierra y el despojo del que fueron víctimas los más débiles, ha sido punto de partida de varios trabajos fundacionales en la historiografía mexicana. Un tema íntimamente relacionado con los problemas agrarios y la propiedad es la desamortización. Esta es considerada como uno de los detonantes principales de los conflictos del campo porfiriano que desembocaron en la revolución de 1910.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2000
    Mexico, Central America, South America

    The insufficient supply of serviced land at affordable prices for
    the urban poor and the need for regularization of the consequent
    illegal occupations in urban areas are two of the most
    important issues on the Latin American land policy agenda.
    Taking a structural/integrated view on the functioning
    of the urban land market in Latin America, this paper discusses
    the nexus between the formal and the informal land markets. It
    thus exposes the perverse feedback effects that curative regularization

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2000
    Chile

    The "road capacity" of the Chilean Master Plan is a tool developed to measure the capacity of streets in terms of supporting the size of vehicle flow. This tool considers topics such as land use, population density and street width. The purpose of this technique is to incorporate it to the Master Plan, as a town planning instrument, so as to cope with traffic forecasting and congestion. However, the technique does not embrace any sustainability concept, this is due to a disregard of any district ´s social or environmental needs.

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