This work exposes a methodology to assess and to identify areas of greater urban vulnerability due to imbalances generated by spontaneous urban growth. The residential sector, basic infrastructure services, occupation in ...

Rapid urbanisation in Santiago de Chile has led to a large number of informal settlements on the periphery of the city which from an initial common origin, now exhibit very different degrees of social and physical ...

© 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 ...

The process of urban transformation and recovery of central areas was one of the priorities of the Chilean governments in the 1960s and 1970s. In this context, special attention was given to the housing complexes that ...

With the growth of urban areas, the problems are result of waterproofing in the soil aggravated by the use of drainage techniques that do not adequately deal with issue. The called Compensatory Techniques (CT) appeared as ...

The democratization of discussions about urban planning and management is a relatively recent process. It is based on the articles 182 and 183 of the 1988 Brazilian Federal Constitution and Law 10,257/2001 (City Statute), ...

We assume that for the study of a particular situation like that of Campinas, would need to fixate some points of its development: the understanding of urban crises, as well as issues resulting from them and, finally, why ...

Focusing upon a period during which the planning discipline emerged and was consolidated in Latin America from the 1920s through the 1950s, this article aims to identify some of the impulses behind the widening of the scope ...