The consolidation of a new legal framework for Brazilian urban policy has been emphasizing the possibility of citizen participation and social inclusion in urban policies. At the same time, current socio-spatial inequalities contribute to cities with increasingly complex problems and a reduction...

The consolidation of a new legal framework for Brazilian urban policy has been emphasizing the possibility of citizen participation and social inclusion in urban policies. At the same time, current socio-spatial inequalities contribute to cities with increasingly complex problems and a reduction...

This article attempts to look freely and without any prejudging political or lobbying opinion on the announced construction of a new container terminal located in Trafaria (Cova do Vapor?)Lisbon, PT. It is assumed that, in financial, environmental and strategic terms, is it not as strictly...

Resumo A construção de uma Linha de Transporte de Mercadorias (LTM), de Sines a Espanha, vem deitar achas na fogueira da confusão que reina acerca desta problemática. Confusão não só porque a calendarização para 2015 remete qualquer decisão efetiva para um horizonte politicamente...

The paper discusses the city and the region aiming at unfolding a synthetic panorama of the various ways of thinking and acting upon the spatial issue. We argue that a better understanding of how the different scientific disciplines with interfaces on the territory view and work with space...

This study aims to present a systematic identification of themes and questions related to economic, social and demographic transformations in operation on national territory in the 2003-2015 period. A balance of efforts, advances and difficulties to implement the national regional policy (PNDR)...

This study presents a typology designed to investigate territories impacted by public policies through the 2003-2015 period. For such, it was done a mapping of analysis and of stylized facts that represent the most relevant spatial transformations due to public and private expenditures and...

The main objective of this paper is to compare the European Union's (EU) Regional Policy with the Regional Policy in Brazil. In this context, the transformations that have occurred in the last two decades in the policies and instruments that promote the economic and social development of the...

A palavra governança vem servindo para designar diferentes formas de governar, particularmente aquelas mais sensíveis às demandas da população e que estimulem a inserção dos movimentos sociais nos processos decisórios. No Brasil, “governança ambiental” é usado, em geral, para se...

The article aims to discuss needs and opportunities for the accomplishment of the task of coordinating productive policies in the territory. It seeks to dialogue directly with national concerns for equitable territorial development and, thus, with the National Policy for Regional Development...