In recent years, Brazilian medium-sized cities have been considered as attractive poles for both internal migration flows, and for new corporate investments in industry, trades, services and real estate, emerging new ...

The real estate market has shown over the last decades increasing centrality in the production of urban space in medium-sized cities in Brazil, presenting greater complexity in terms of their structure and content. In the ...

News contents in the urban peripherys of the intermediary citys of State Sao Paulo, Brazil Brazilian cities have had their urban structures oriented by relations of the kind city center-periphery, where the central areas ...

Starting from Jefferson's 'law of the primate city' and Zipf's 'rank-size rule', examines the question of the heading of national urban systems, seeking to stretch the analysis as far as possible in space and time. Thus, ...

Starting from Jefferson's 'law of the primate city' and Zipf's 'rank-size rule', examines the question of the heading of national urban systems, seeking to stretch the analysis as far as possible in space and time. Thus, ...

Contemporary cities have been permeated by the emergence of new commercial and service concentration areas and the density of flows towards these zones, which characterized the emergence of new expressions of centralities. ...

This article analyzes the recent urban territorial expansion in two medium-sized Brazilian cities (Ribeirão Preto/SP and São Carlos/SP) and discusses the close relationship between the interests and strategies of specific ...

This article reviews the literature on the study of the gentrification phenomenon with emphasis on the mutation that it has experienced from the 1960s to the present, differentiating its various consequences that depend ...

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has proven to be an effective and affordable transportation option for large-sized cities. In these cities, BRT is usually considered an effective complement or substitute for rail-based systems, ...