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Urban Fabric Patterns on Urban Wetland
(2021)
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 ...
The global homogenization of urban form. An assessment of 194 cities across time
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-12)
The spatial structure of cities, i.e. their composition, shape and degree of fragmentation or compactness, is a physical expression reflecting development efficiency. Identifying the evolution of urban systems in time and ...
The urban matrix matters: Quantifying the effects of surrounding urban vegetation on natural habitat remnants in Santiago de Chile
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. 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 ...
The espacialization of urban voids in Londrina (PR)
(Revues Org, 2016-01-01)
During the recent years, the urban space production is subordinated to the real state capital reproduction, mostly by the land ownership appreciation. In the cities production the agents involved produce or reproduce the ...
A comparative analysis of brazilian strategic planning in the 90S: A study of projects of urban promotion of ippuc, the 'rio cidade program' and the 'tamanduatehy axle'
(2007-01-01)
The present work proposes a comparative analysis of three Brazilian strategic planning experiments from the 1990s. The chosen urban interventions are the 'Rio Cidade' Program (Rio de Janeiro), the 'Tamanduatehy Axis' (São ...
Urban form datasets of 194 cities delineated based on the contiguous urban fabric for 1990 and 2015
(Elsevier Inc., 2020-12)
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 ...
Overcoming urban sustainability: A route for Latin America [Superar la sostenibilidad urbana: Una ruta para América Latina1]
(UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, 2017-04-01)
The present work of reflection is a theoretical analysis on urban sustainability and urban political ecology. The development of the article explores how urban sustainability and urban political ecology assume the dialectic ...
The historic urban landscape practice in Latin America, Cuenca as a case study
(CRC Press/Balkema, 2018)
Nowadays, based on the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL), the need to implement efficient tools to ensure urban conservation, is crucial in the heritage agenda. In Latin America the change of ...
The metabolic urban network: Urbanisation as hierarchically ordered space of flows
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020-11-26)
Urban ecosystems perform a distinctive metabolism appropriating fundamental materials and energy resources from other ecosystems. This appropriation enables a productive circularity which sustains the material production ...