This exploratory and qualitative research aims to understand the social representations of urban occupations residents in relation to the right to the city and housing, considering housing as a basic need and its importance ...

The Brazilian housing policy adopted, since the early 60’s, a model that produces large housing complex in distant and segregated areas of the cities. While the popular housing offer is assured, low-income families are ...

Faced with a competitive and demanding market, the construction companies of social housing social in Brazil have been driven to greater control in productivity, since this has become a basic need for many companies. ...

Informal land occupations compose a very current theme in the Brazilian urban scene. In Curitiba, the “model city” has its informal settlements, and at the same time that it created its image of reference in urbanism, it ...

The monograph presents a study in the field of social interest housing with focus on urban planning and sustainability, that involves the work of the Companhia de Habitação Popular (Popular Housing Company) of Curitiba ...

This study presents an analysis of the process of using prisoners or inmates for civil construction companies in their construction sites, due to the lack of manpower and verified by industry professionals skilled in the ...

This dissertation aims at investigating the interrelationships between technology, culture and functions of housing doors in everyday life of society, and its manifestations in configurations, uses and meanings of doors. ...

This dissertation seeks to understand to what extent it is possible to build social housing in central area, focusing on the case of Ponta Grossa - PR. Based on the concept of the right to the city and, consequently, the ...