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Title: |
Regional & Urban Developments in Portuguese-Speaking Countries |
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| Edited by: |
Márcio Moraes Valença, Fernanda Cravidão By (author): Jose Alberto Rio Fernandes |
| ISBN10-13: |
1614708762 : 9781614708766 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
260x180mm |
| Pages: |
473 |
| Weight: |
1.048 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - January 2013 |
| List Price: |
283.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Central government policies : Urban & municipal planning |
| In this book, a number of concepts and understandings about development' intertwine. Scales, times and human activities are projected onto territories, as to interpret realities. The future of population, the territorial (in)balances and complexity of managing spaces are recurring themes. Regional, sustainable, tourism and historical developments are the major headings under which chapters are organized. Under these headings and in the chapters, a number of themes are treated, including those of economic integration; flows of foreign investments; regional integration; border areas; urbanization; infrastructure provision; mobility; transports; urban sprawl; deprivation and health; poverty; environmental degradation; quality of life; housing; second homes; land use management and heritage. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Iberian market integration: a case study of Spanish investments in Lisbon Metropolitan area (LMA); Territorial occupation in Eastern Brazilian Amazon – how small cities express regional dynamics; New urban dynamics & the phenomenon of sprawl in the North Western Iberian peninsula; UNICAMP-The spatial integration of the regional infrastructure in South America; Issues concerning the complexity of urban & rural spaces: Brazilian & South American countries boundaries; Land use changes in Portugal: selected municipalities in the Douro Region; Rural real estate tax in the state of Sao Paulo- Brazil: fiscal renunciation & evasion; The impact of a main road (IP4) on the development of urban soil use in municipality of Vila Real, Portugal; Daily mobility, transportation & sustainability in Portugal; Land planning & management policies, urban trends & environmental (un)sustainability -- The case of Lisbon metropolitan area; Neighbourhood deprivation, social capital erosion & health inequalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal; USP Guidelines based on sustainable indicators for informal settlement upgrading in environmentally preserved areas; Systemic analysis of environmental degradation in river valleys resulting from urban dynamics; Regional markets & equitable development in northern Brazil: urban, metropolitan & frontier farming in the central Amazon; Geoprocessing technologies in evaluation of sustainable urban development – A case study in the Northeast of Brazil; Sports, education & sustainable development: a Brazilian reflection; Living places in the city of porto alegre, Brazil -- An approach to assessing the quality of residential spaces in the light of the principles of sustainability; Tropism, the tourism greatest myth; The reflex of tourism on the place´s dynamic; Second-home tourism in coastal risk areas – a Portuguese case; Portugal & overseas territories political construction; "In via": revisiting the Franciscan heritage in a quest for new cultural & tourist exchanges; The city & national integration of Brazil from a historical perspective; Order & discipline in the construction of the urban space of the native villages from Rio Grande captaincy – XVIII Century; Urbane reception of rustic rapine: the place of A Brazilian Mystic in Brazilian studies; Index. |
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