The hypothesis of this paper is that land tenure in Third World countries is regulated by socio-political institutions rather than the market. It argues, that land reform has to start from a knowledge of local conditions ...

Describes how use of land and building surveys should be conducted, including preparation, field work, plotting of maps and coding of land use activities.

Latin America's intensive urbanization processes are triggering rapid peri-urban transformations and the expansion of cities. These include accelerated metropolization processes, urban sprawl, and the emergence of new ...

Describes the transportation system in Trinidad in the 1980s, the development of travel demand models, an assessment of Port of Spain's transportation land use, and the appropriate land use strategy for the city's ...

The present research datasets were processed for the article “The global homogenization of urban form. An assessment of 194 cities across time” [1]. They consist of land cover spatial layers, longitude and latitude point ...

Land surface transformations associated to the urbanization has impacted local climates and terrestrial surface energy processes. The occurrence of higher temperatures in urbanized areas when compared to rural and natural ...

The integration of the residential function beyond the limits of the urban and developable land in the legislative frameworks has had a distinct and incomplete character. Faced with an identical phenomenon in general, ...