Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how improvements in municipal solid waste management systems (MSWMS) can contribute to a transition toward circular economy (CE) in urban areas, outlining actions and ...

This project wants to verify the functionalism of the 'Global Cities' inside a Global Economy. In addition, it tries to study if São Paulo and Buenos Aires tend to reach the status of 'Mundial City'. Given the evident ...

This paper presents a case study where geophysics was successfully applied to solve a complex problem associated with a tunnel excavation accident in an urban area. It presents and describes the results obtained with ...

Este trabalho apresenta um uso da geofísica aplicada em uma situação de ambiente urbano. O objetivo dos levantamentos foi o de delimitar a extensão da zona afetada por um colapso e desmoronamento do teto de um túnel em ...

A consortium of three universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), and Technische Universität Berlin, and the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, propose a study of urban ...

The concept of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) recently emerged with the rise of new mobility solutions and the increasing need for multimodality in cities. The existing literature on MaaS schemes focuses on cities in developed ...

Agglomeration of people and activities in space is a common fact of life in the modern world, despite intrinsic inefficiencies that an agglomeration process may generate. For firms, these spatial concentration phenomena ...