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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2000

    This article was created based on researches realized to obtain the doctor degree. The main informations came from interviews and local newspapers which open possibilities to understand the actions and the changes that had happened in the work field of the land agents during the implementation of the urban plan called Plano de Urbanização de Curitiba. As building grows in the city of Curitiba, it appears different kinds of land investiments and land use inducing the agents to further behaviours.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2000
    Brazil

    The information presented here involves, on one hand, the voluntary colonization by north american immigrants arriving in Brazil during the second half of the 19th century, most of them m issionaries and southerners fleeing the civil war, who intended to disseminate their Presbyterian religious doctrine in our land. On the other hand, the text also deals w ith the silent colonization effected by north american industrial products, less than a century later, which, in fact, consolidated the doctrine of dependent industrial capitalism in Brazil, centered in São Paulo.

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2000
    Mexico

    El proceso de reconversión industrial que se desarrolla en México manifiesta un impacto diferencial, al incorporar sólo ciertos territorios y determinados sectores económicos a la "nueva lógica de producción global". Esto hace que los patrones territoriales, imperantes hasta los años setenta, se vean modificados. El estudio parte del análisis de la industria manufacturera y reconoce a las empresas de gran tamaño como las de mayor capacidad para asumir dicha reestructuración.

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    May, 2000
    Chile

    La temprana y radical liberalización de los mercados urbanos chilenos tuvo consecuencias inesperadas en los precios del suelo y en la segregación residencial en Santiago: los precios del suelo ha crecido persistentemente desde la eliminación en 1979 de la norma sobre "límites urbanos" y otras reformas; y la segregación ha reducido su escala geográfica en importantes áreas, debido a la acción del robusto sector inmobiliario privado surgido en los años ochenta.

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