With continuing proliferation of human influences on landscapes, there is mounting incentive to undertake quantification of relationships between spatial patterns of human populations and vegetation. In considering such quantification, it is apparent that investigations must be conducted at different scales and in a comparative manner across regions. At the broader scales it becomes necessary to utilize remote sensing of vegetation for comparative studies against map referenced census data. This paper explores such an approach for the urbanized area in the Tokyo vicinity.

The information presented here involves, on one hand, the voluntary colonization by north american immigrants arriving in Brazil during the second half of the 19th century, most of them m issionaries and southerners fleeing the civil war, who intended to disseminate their Presbyterian religious doctrine in our land. On the other hand, the text also deals w ith the silent colonization effected by north american industrial products, less than a century later, which, in fact, consolidated the doctrine of dependent industrial capitalism in Brazil, centered in São Paulo.

The insufficient supply of serviced land at affordable prices for
the urban poor and the need for regularization of the consequent
illegal occupations in urban areas are two of the most
important issues on the Latin American land policy agenda.
Taking a structural/integrated view on the functioning
of the urban land market in Latin America, this paper discusses
the nexus between the formal and the informal land markets. It
thus exposes the perverse feedback effects that curative regularization

Dans les pays en développement et en transition, outre l’augmentation du nombre de ménages démunis, c’est le problème de nourrir les villes qui est le défi à relever pour les pouvoirs locaux.

Meeting symbol/code: NAFC 2000 8a