ABSTRACT The aim of this dissertation is the project of a ring road idealized for the city of São Carlos (SP) in the 1970s. Especially on the northeast stretch, interrupted due to environmental infractions. We investigate ...

Since the late 1980s, a new vocabulary associated with concerns about climate change has emerged. Nevertheless, this article argues that the concepts used to describe urban adaptation are a part of the history of urban ...

Facing global climate challenges and the search for sustainable development, the creation of parks in urban areas has become a strategy to deal with these issues. Among the green areas of cities, the Urban Park is a category ...

There is a growing concern about integrating biodiversity into urban planning, yet, discussions are concentrated on science-informed planning in general. Few have explored the integration of biodiversity in specific planning ...

This thesis critically discusses the current status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as practice. It maintains that urban design has been wholly reshaped by neoliberalism. It has become a discipline that has ...

Although valid legislatively since the Constitution of 1934, was only with the City Statute that urban capital gains were consolidated, through the application of urbanistic instruments, with the objective of recovering ...

Population increases in the coastal area in the Bío Bío region (Chile) have transformed the urban landscape, creating the need for new urban areas for residential land use. This expansion has resulted in the use of locations ...