The article explores the reasons why urban public policies in Latin America have a very high degree of complexity. It also addresses the challenges that this generates for local governments. It examines in an illustrative ...

We analyse a half-century of Chilean urban reforms to explain the introduction of a system of urban accumulation by dispossession of public resources and opportunities. Three stages have been conceptualised in the imposition ...

We take into consideration the role of São Paulo city hall’s public policies to reflect on the importance of integrating urban inscriptions in Higher Education disciplines in Brazil. According to the historical summary ...

© EURE.A comprehensive characterization of urban renewal policies based on the analysis of the original texts, is proposed for the case of Santiago de Chile. The existences of three types of urban renewal policies that are ...

Informality is growing in a context of increasing inequity, and in many places becoming the norm. However, despite decades of studies and interventions, 'recognising informality' is still a key issue. This paper provides ...

How are indigenous public health policies implemented in contexts of diversity? The rural-urban migration processes that indigenous people have experienced since the mid-19905 in Latin American countries have affected the ...

The focus of the São Paulo based M’Boi urban research field station is on the micro level impacts of social, urban and institutional vulnerabilities present in big cities and multi-city conurbations that are aggravated by: ...

Urban sprawl has been studied principally as a phenomenon produced by a lack of or weakness in urban planning, as a consequence of real estate liberalization. This article examines the Chilean case, and proposes that the ...