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From urban to regional planning in Latin America, 1920-50
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2010)
Focusing upon a period during which the planning discipline emerged and was consolidated in Latin America from the 1920s through the 1950s, this article aims to identify some of the impulses behind the widening of the scope ...
The urban matrix matters: Quantifying the effects of surrounding urban vegetation on natural habitat remnants in Santiago de Chile
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2019)
Urbanization destroys and fragments natural habitats, resulting in a system of natural remnants embedded in an urban matrix. Urban natural remnants (UNRs) can provide multiple ecosystem services for urban areas. Nevertheless, ...
The rurality in the Santiago Chile metropolitan region (2002): determination and relationship with the people employed by economic sector
(UNIV BARCELONA, DEPT GEOGRAFIA HUMANA, 2008)
The new geographical contexts of the rural-urban interactions on the outskirts of large cities motivate a more detailed characterization of the "rural" character. The paper develops a methodology to define several levels ...
As relações do espaço urbano do município de Dona Francisca, RS com a Região da Quarta Colônia
(Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBRGeografiaUFSMPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, 2010-09-28)
The present study has as coverage space the urban area of Dona Francisca city. To understand this geographic area it was required from us to know the relationship that this city has with other rural and urban relations/regional ...
Modeling Urban Sprawl Patterns of the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo based on Cellular Automata
(Pontificia Univ Catolica Parana-pucpr, 2017-10-01)
The aim of this study was to model the urban sprawl patterns of the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo (MRSP) using a spatial modeling technique based on cellular automata (CA). Therefore, we used urban perimeter data related ...
Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities: Changing Neighbourhoods
This is a book about social change in European cities as brought about by interna-
tional migration. Among the many aspects of such long and complex waves of
transformations what interests us in particular is how ...
Spider communities in urban green patches and their relation to local and landscape traits
(2018)
Urbanization and urban landscape characteristics greatly alter plant and animal species richness and abundances in negative and positive directions. Spiders are top predators, often considered to be sensitive to habitat ...
Impacts of the deforestation driven by agribusiness on urban population and economic activity in the Dry Chaco of Argentina
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-09)
Agriculture expansion oriented to global market has changed the relation between population and deforestation in South America. Actually, the population dynamic in an agricultural frontier turned into a consequence of ...
The urban space and the (re)production of social inequalities. Decoupling income distribution and patterns of urbanization in Latin American cities
(Routledge, 2018)
The chapter focus on urban space and the (re)production of social inequalities in Latin American cities. Following the evolution of income distribution and the development of patterns of urbanization in the last three ...
Towards a Landscape Ecosophy. Interpreting how the inhabitants of the Villarrica-Pucón urban system in the Araucanía Region of Chile perceive and relate with the dynamics of Landscape
(2016)
As a reaction to the complex global crisis, the notion of ecological urbanism has emerged in order to understand and attend the inaccuracy between the urban system and the environment of which it is a part. This article ...