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Historia y desastre natural: La ciudad latinoamericana y las inundacionesHistory and natural catastrophe: The Latin American city and the floods
(Universidad de Cadiz, 2005-12)
Se acentúa la importancia de las catástrofes naturales recurrentes como son las inundaciones en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Comienza con una evaluación de lo que son y sus impactos a menudo ignorados por la historiografía. ...
Scaling of mortality in 742 metropolitan areas of the Americas.
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021)
We explored how mortality scales with city population size using vital registration and population data from 742 cities in 10 Latin American countries and the United States. We found that more populated cities had lower ...
New dimensions of social exclusion in Latin America: From gated communities to gated cities, the case of Santiago de Chile
(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008)
Over the last 30 years, one can perceive growth towards sociospatial exclusion in Latin American cities with more than 80,000 inhabitants. Gated communities, hermetically sealed off from their surrounding neighbourhoods ...
Associations of Urban Environment Features with Hypertension and Blood Pressure across 230 Latin American Cities
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2022)
BACKGROUND: Features of the urban physical environment may be linked to the development of high blood pressure, a leading risk factor for global burden of disease. OBJECTIVES: We examined associations of urban physical ...
Resilience in Latin American cities: behaviour vs. space quality in the riverbanks of the Tomebamba River
(Elsevier Procedia, 2017)
New techniques that offer more reliable ways of predicting and understanding the use of the space can be valuable tools for designing resilient cities. The proposed methodology aims to generate a spatially explicit empirical ...
Latin American urban Big Data: Cities of São Paulo, Montevideo, Quito, Xalapa and Miraflores
(This is a video promoted by FGV Research Network, 2022-08)
Managing cities and conceiving public policies in a context of increasingly fast social and technological changes are challenges that have led to debates and reflections in various sectors of society. But at the same time ...