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This work seeks to describe the Brazilian formal and informal housing markets and the possible segmentations within these first two divisions. The main objective is to make explicit the similarities and differences, and the heterogeneities within each group. Considering inadequate housing...
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Despite being home to about 1 billion people (UN-Habitat, 2010) worldwide slums have received little attention in the … economic literature. Data on slums is scarce and few studies have investigated the emergence of these pockets of poverty and … combining Census, terrain topography and water bodies data for Brazil. Thus, we provide the first consistent estimates on …
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In addition to concentrating historical heritage, city centers often concentrate greater accessibility, in terms of urban mobility, as they concentrate urban infrastructure. Repopulating the centers contributes to more compact and sustainable cities. A considerable portion of Brazilian cities...
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486099
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486107
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486131
The correct detection of the phenomena of slums is critical to the formulation of several public policies. The main … sources used in Brazil are data available from population censuses, which are not comparable over time. Accordingly, the … statistics office (IBGE) alerts that changes in classification procedures improved considerably the identification of slums in …
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residential structures in Brazil from 1970 to 1999. The macroeconomic focus neglects the distributive and allocative effects of …
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The objective of this article is to understand the main socioeconomic determinants of family cohabitation and new household formation by young adults in Brazilian urban areas. Methodologically, the study adapts the models of De Vos (1989) and Granado and Castillo (2002) to the Brazilian case,...
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