The present Discussion Paper aims to reveal the conception of the idea of sustainable urban development, and how this term can serve geopolitical interests related to maintaining the uneven and combined development discourse on a global and national scale. To this purpose, an etymological and...

This is the second in a series of four Discussion Papers (DP) that are part of the survey How are Cities Divided: the invention of informal settlements. The goal of this series of DPs was to carry out a culturomic and scientometric study on the use of the term informal settlements contextualized...

This is the third in a series of four Discussion Papers (DP) that make up the research How Cities are Divided: the invention of informal settlements. The goal of this series was to carry out a culturomic and scientometric study on the use of the term informal settlements contextualized by...

This is the fourth and last in a series of four discussion papers (DP) that are part of the research How Cities are Divided: the invention of informal settlements. The goal of this series of DPs was to carry out a culturomic and scientometric study on the use of the term informal settlements...

This is the first of a series of four Discussion Papers (DP) that are part of the survey How cities are divided: the invention of informal settlements. The goal of this series of DPs was to carry out a culturomic and scientometric study on the use of the term informal settlements contextualized...