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.

Se evoca la labor de un profesional chileno, el arquitecto y urbanista Luis Muñoz Maluschka (1896-1974), en el marco de un período de cincuenta años de aportes relevantes en planificación urbana y ordenamiento territorial realizados desde el Ministerio de Obras Públicas de Chile./The work of a Chilean professional architect and city planner, Luis Muñoz Maluschka (1896-1974) is commented. In fifty years he has made important contributions to urban planning and land arrangement from the Ministerio de Obras Publicas (Ministry of Public Works.)

Con base en una encuesta comparativa a asentamientos irregulares y conjuntos de "vivienda social" de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago, caracterizamos la decisión de vivir en estos "campamentos" como orientada a combinar dos objetivos generalmente excluyentes: mejorar la localización dentro de la ciudad y acceder a una vivienda formal en propiedad. El que los campamentos se sigan recreando a pesar de la masiva producción de unidades subsidiadas por el Estado, y el que la mayoría de sus residentes no estén bajo la línea de la pobreza, avalan esta conclusión.

We  highlight the mysterious liquidity that oversees the interpretation of the nature of the relation sea and cities, using to hyperbole from James Conrad in " Heart of Darkness ", while the reference to Saskia Sassen highlights the need of strong policies in the governance of reciprocity relationships. The heart of darkness continues to envelop the sea-land relations , as witnessed by the suffering of migrants on the sea and also the new faces of the suffering city ( migrant's reception centers in Italy) . It is believed that culture has a role in unraveling the mystery.

This article was created based on researches realized to obtain the doctor degree. The main informations came from interviews and local newspapers which open possibilities to understand the actions and the changes that had happened in the work field of the land agents during the implementation of the urban plan called Plano de Urbanização de Curitiba. As building grows in the city of Curitiba, it appears different kinds of land investiments and land use inducing the agents to further behaviours.

The surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect can be defined as the relative warmth of urban surfaces compared with its surroundings due to the difference in their respective cooling rates. Classic studies have demonstrated that urban warming is a regional and occasional phenomenon whose occurrence depends on weather conditions and characteristics of the urban fabric. Satellite imagery and GIS are combined in this paper to unveil patterns in thermal variations across cities and relate air temperature to density or land cover.

No presente trabalho busca-se esclarecer o papel do Estudo de Impacto de Vizinhança (EIV) como instrumento de controle e requalificação da ocupação urbana. Para isso, detalhou-se os aspectos do EIV estabelecidos pelo Estatuto da Cidade. Em seguida, verifica-se as condições de aplicação do instrumento no Distrito Federal por meio de análise da legislação existente. Como contribuição para uma melhor compreensão do EIV, analisa-se a relação desse com os demais instrumentos da política urbana de âmbito municipal.

This article draws an analytical panel of the main contributions and interpretations of Anhaia Mello about the problem of growing cities from the perspective of urbanism in the city of São Paulo.

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.

As elsewhere in the ex-communist/socialist countries, the former planning system in Yugoslavia has been dismantled as from the beginning of 1990s, and the planning practice has from then onwards been steered by an apart mixture of old habits, few institutional innovations and the social, economic and political turbulence of the transition period.

A relatively high degree of conflicts between development and developmental goals is an objective condition that one has to face in planning in large mining basins. Numerous conflicts exist: between wider public larger social interests (land occupation, removal-power production), short-term and long-term goals, specific and general aims, etc.