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.

An executive summary and recommendations are followed by 5 chapters: on the land question, reform and farm workers; the scope and process of fast track reform; the impact of land reform on farm workers’ livelihoods; food security, vulnerable groups, HIV-AIDS and coping strategies; and after the ‘promised land’ – towards the future. Study reveals that by early 2003, only about 100,000 of the original c.320,000 farm workers were still employed on the farms, the others are jobless and landless and have lost their entitlement to housing, basic social services and subsidised food.

This Decree-Law approves the Statute of the Ministry for Environment and Urban Planning. Under the Decree-Law No.

Este artículo presenta evidencias preliminares con el propósito de aportar una visión del problema habitacional, introduciendo variables de análisis que den cuenta del proceso de expansión residencial suburbana de la ciudad de Córdoba, en el período 1983-2000.- Se realiza un análisis de dos casos contrapuestos, el de las nuevas urbanizaciones suburbanas cerradas y el de los programas de vivienda subsidiadas.

Demonstrates that most arguments leading to the current bias against rental housing are highly flawed. Argues for more tenure-neutral housing policies, and urges governments to modify regulatory frameworks, develop credit programmes and other forms of assistance to support housing production, with a view to creating more rental housing and to improve the existing stock.

El presente Decreto crea el Consejo Nacional de Planificación Urbana (CNPU), integrado por el Ministerio de Vivienda y Asentamientos Humanos (MIVAH), quien lo preside, el Ministerio de Planificación Nacional y Política Económica, el Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MINAE), el Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT), el Instituto Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo (INVU), el Instituto de Fomento y Asesoría Municipal, la Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz, y adicionalmente la Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgo y Atención de Emergencias y el Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos

Conferencia de J. Honold Dunner, en el Seminario del Gran Santiago realizado en 1957, donde se analizó las relaciones e interdependencias del Gran Santiago con los fenómenos territoriales y regionales. (Publicada en 1958)./This is the lecture given by J. Honold D. in the Seminario del Gran Santiago 1957 (Seminar on the Greater Santiago). On this Seminar the relation and interdependency of the Greater Santiago and the regional and land phenomena were analyzed.

La realidad industrial y urbana ha estado sometida a un fuerte proceso de reestructuración durante las últimas décadas. En la primera mitad de la década de los ‘80, conceptos como los de desindustrialización, o postindustrialización fueron asociados a los de desurbanización o contraurbanización. Sólo unos años más tarde el discurso empezó a ser radicalmente distinto al confirmarse la permanencia de fuertes externalidades positivas urbano-metropolitanas, y volvieron a considerarse tales ámbitos como ganadores.

The report by the Urban Agriculture Magazine draws on numerous case studies from around the world in discussing issues of availability, access and usability of land for urban agriculture.Rapid urbanisation has lead to an increasing demand for urban agricultural land. The adequate and efficient use of the land by urban farmers is of increasing concern to planners and municipal policymakers especially.Urban agriculture takes place on-plot and off-plot, and in periurban and is limited by the amount of non-built-up space.

In 1997, CARE-Bangladesh undertook a livelihood security assessment of urban slum households in the cities of Tongi, Khulna and Bogra. Based on the findings of that study and a review of secondary literature, the SHAHAR (Supporting Household Activities for Health, Assets and Revenue) project was conceptualized and designed.

The Handbook on Best Practices, Security of Tenure and Access to Land--Implementation of the Habitat Agenda (2003) reviews material produced by UN Habitat partners up to and including 1999, in terms of the implementation of the Habitat Agenda. At the time of publishing, this document was the most comprehensive global overview of progress made in countries towards achieving the Habitat Agenda in the area of land tenure and land management/administration.

Desde el inicio de la ocupación española, el Camino del Sur, último tramo de una red a escala continental, constituyó la vía de comunicación entre la ciudad de Buenos Aires y el pago de la Magdalena a la vez que en sus proximidades se originaban incipientes núcleos urbanos. La incorporación del ferrocarril a mediados del siglo XIX produjo un cambio notable en la estructura territorial y reemplazó en parte al antiguo camino como vía de comunicación y columna vertebral de los asentamientos urbanos.