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...

This work sought to identify the socioeconomic, urbanistic and mobility variables that explain the higher relative occurrence of trips by public transport (TPU - transporte público coletivo urbano), individual motorized transport (TI - transporte individual motorizado) and non-motorized...

This discussion paper presents a comparative analysis of the market structure and charging of the main public services charged, considering some tariff charging parameters raised for each of them. The services considered in the analysis are sanitation, waste, transport, energy and telephony...

This work aims to study socioeconomic variables related to mortality rates from traffic accidents in Brazil, investigating the effect of economic development and important factors that explain the differentiation of traffic deaths between Brazilian states. It was observed that a higher...

This Discussion Paper presents an overview of the granting of transportation assistance to Brazilian working heads of families based on data from the IBGE 2018-2019 Family Budget Survey. It was shown that people from the lowest social strata, with less education and income, are precisely those...