People can be the causative agents of introducing new animal or plantspecies, which may demonstrate invasive behaviors and produce signifi cant changesin the dynamics of the urban ecosystem. Therefore, landscape humanization ...

Frei Montalva promoted the "Operacion Sitio" program and Villa La Reina by Fernando Castillo Velasco is an exemplary case of it. Given scarcity, the people got only what they could not obtain by themselves: urban design ...

Urban and peri-urban forests provide a variety of ecosystem service benefits for urban society. Recognising and understanding the many human-tree interactions that urban forests provide may be more complex but probably ...

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 ...

The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Latin American cities have experienced rapid urbanization and with it the social and environmental challenges caused by urban sprawl. Over the last ...

By processing Census micro data from 10 countries in the region, we answer several questions that can be categorized under the following three main topics: a) spatial distribution trends of indigenous peoples in Latin ...

This chapter deals with the process of migrations led by indigenous peoples in La Pampa province (Argentina), focusing on how family networks allowed them to build territories in new environments, such as Santa Rosa city. ...

Most of the literature about urban policy in Bogotá at the turn of the century has focused on the city's transformation. Both critical and celebratory approaches have highlighted the departures from previous ways of planning ...

The pandemic forced the elderly to establish strict quarantines. But that measure of care prevented them from performing a daily self-care exercise: the urban walk. Based on this dilemma, the following research confirms ...