The effects determined in the landscape by plants powered by renewable sources represent some unresolved issues in terms of visual and landscape impact mitigation in general. These aspects relate to the landscape are recognized in all types of impact with due attention to the various components and dynamics involved identifiable in the landscape of reference.

In the fi rst part of the article we give an account of the urban transformations that took place in Latin American cities, especially in Argentina, with the implementation of neoliberal politics since the seventies. We assume that neither the architectural facts, let alone urban

This research focuses the land and urban legalizing process of spontaneous shantytown settlements between 1980 and 1999, from the perspective of three such communities, located in the state of Rio de Janeiro and which form the basis of this case study. The aim of this work is to suggest different possibilities to intervene in these areas from a urban and land standpoint. Despite not being the only solution to the housing problem, it was found that the land formalization process helps improve the lives of vast numbers of people which today live in inadequate housing arrangements.

In broader terms, the paper refers to the topic of brownfield regeneration, as one of the most complex mechanisms for sustainable spatial development. In addition to the fact that brownfield regeneration demands a variety of instruments, such as: tax subsidies, the change of land use ownership, soil remediation, planning regulative amendments, etc., the complexity of brownfield regeneration is primarily seen in a number of stakeholders participating in such a process.

Les deux conurbations du Grand Manchester et de la Ruhr (et plus particulièrement la vallée de l’Emscher) ont connu à partir des années 1960 de profondes restructurations économiques liées à l’arrêt progressif de leur activité traditionnelle : l’industrie textile et l’exploitation du charbon. Afin d’impulser une nouvelle dynamique à ces territoires en crise, les pouvoirs publics ont fait le choix de politiques de régénération urbaine dans lesquelles la culture a eu progressivement un rôle de plus en plus déterminant.

This article explores the ways in which (a) Indigenous youth involved in an HIV intervention took up and reclaimed their cultures as a project of defining ‘self’, and (b) how Indigenous ‘culture’ can be used as a tool for resistance, HIV prevention and health promotion. Data were drawn from the Taking Action Project: Using arts-based approaches to develop Aboriginal youth leadership in HIV prevention.

The Netherlands has a coastline of over 400 miles but they have always been characterized by an uneasy relationship with the sea. Because of geomorphology that puts the country on average 5 meters below sea level, the Dutch urban planning, at all levels of government, has always questioned the need to defend themselves from river and marine flooding; over the centuries it has developed a pragmatic approach , enshrined in various national laws and in the establishment of the Ministry of Water Management, which has set as its main objective the defense of the territory from the water.

During the period immediately after World War II, planning in North America and Europe followed highly centralized, top-down, command-and-control approaches that were based on the rational-comprehensive model of planning, which implies an all-knowing, all-powerful government. Part and parcel of this approach was the government’s control of development land and its value.

El tratamiento de los corredores fluviales en la planificación urbanística española, y en particular madrileña, ha pasado de considerarlos como límite a la expansión urbana (S. XIX), a tratar de conferirles una función recreativa y de ocio (1920-1960), a mirarlos como espacio de oportunidad para el desarrollo urbano e industrial (1960-80) y finalmente a concebirlos como espacios a proteger del desarrollo urbano (1980-2007).

Discurso de Inauguración del Seminario "A 20 años de la liberalización de los mercados de suelo", organizado por la Cámara de Diputados de Chile, el Lincoln Institute of of Land Policy, el Instituto de Estudios Urbanos de la P.

El punto de partida en la solución del problema de la vivienda en una ciudad, debe ser ante todo el aprovechamiento racional de los terrenos urbanizados disponibles en el área urbana que, en cuanto a la formación de poblaciones en el área de extensión o no urbanizada, debe obedecer a un plan bien meditado en relación con la posibilidad de extender los servicios urbanos a esa área de extensión. Se expone luego lo que debiera ser un plan de la vivienda técnicamente concebido.

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