Processo de verticalização em Londrina: novas formas de produção e consumo de imóveis residenciais - 2000 a 2010

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Territórios de autossegregação e de segregação imposta: fragmentação socioespacial em Marília e São Carlos

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Transport, the poor and moving towards low-carbon societies

This FAL Bulletin discusses the challenges involved in creating equality in urban mobility and the need to reach towards a social sustainability framework, as existing policies often accentuate current inequities and inequalities in accessibility. Lack of access to mobility has wide-ranging effects across social groups, gender and particularly the urban poor.

The economics of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: Paradoxes and challenges of sustainable development

The robust growth of Latin American and Caribbean economies in recent years has led to an improvement in economic and social conditions in the region. It has also had collateral negative effects, however, such as more air pollution in urban areas and a serious deterioration of various natural assets, including non-renewable resources, water resources and forests. There are economies and societies within the region that are highly vulnerable to all sorts of adverse impacts of climate change, and whose production structures and consumption patterns still tend to leave a large carbon footprint. This situation has reached the point of undermining the foundations of the region’s economic buoyancy. Latin America and the Caribbean therefore needs to make the transition in the years to come towards a sustainable form of development that will preserve its economic, social and natural assets for future generations and leave them with a legacy of a more equal, more socially inclusive, low-carbon form of economic growth. Viewed from this standpoint, the climate change challenge is also a sustainable development challenge, and if it is to be addressed successfully, a global consensus that recognizes the asymmetries and paradoxes of the problem will have to be reached..

Are we building competitive and liveable cities?: Guidelines for developing eco-efficient and socially inclusive infrastructure

This guideline jointly published by The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), in partnership with the Urban Design Lab of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, provides practical tools for city planners and decision makers to reform urban planning and infrastructure design according to the principles of eco-efficiency and social inclusiveness. It includes case studies from the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Japan and Sri Lanka.

Memória organizacional e a constituição de bases de conhecimento

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

O impacto das tecnologias da informação e comunicação na localização dos serviços bancários e sua relação com a estrutura intraurbana da Região Metropolitana de Belém

Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória sobre a relação entre novas tecnologias da comunicação e informação (TICs), serviços bancários e estrutura intraurbana, mediante a análise das transformações observadas nesses serviços nas três últimas décadas e na distribuição espacial de seus canais de atendimento na Região Metropolitana de Belém (RMB). A partir de análises conceituais sobre as novas TICs, são abordadas as relações que vêm sendo estabelecidas entre essas tecnologias e o espaço urbano, situando os serviços bancários no contexto das transformações por elas induzidas e analisando-as em relação ao Brasil. Entre os trabalhos que discutem a estrutura do espaço urbano, não foram identificados estudos abordando especificamente os reflexos das TICs sobre esse espaço; tampouco foram identificadas análises sobre o processo de estruturação intraurbana da RMB. Buscou-se apoio em teorias de localização da firma bancária em espaço intraurbano, busca que também resultou infrutífera. Decidiu-se desenvolver uma pesquisa empírica a partir dos endereços dos canais de atendimento em duas etapas: a que trata das agências no período de 1980 a 2010 e a que abrange todos os canais de atendimento no ano de 2010. A análise dos mapas, gráficos e tabelas, elaborados a partir desses endereços, permitiu concluir que as novas TICs possibilitaram o incremento quantitativo e qualitativo dos serviços bancários, bem como a diversificação dos canais de atendimento, destacando-se o acesso virtual aos serviços. Constatou-se que a localização espacial dos pontos de atendimento bancário sofreu um significativo processo de descentralização e, por meio dos Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) e dos correspondentes bancários, alcançou as áreas de comércio e serviços de bairro, onde se acham predominantemente localizados, em detrimento das subcentralidades identificadas. São questionadas as repercussões da desnecessidade do deslocamento para o processo de estruturação do espaço intraurbano das metrópoles brasileiras e apontados desdobramentos para pesquisas futuras.

Para além das cidades: centralidade e estruturação urbana: Londrina e Maringá

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Estruturação da cidade e morfologia urbana: um estudo sobre cidades de porte médio da rede urbana paulista

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

High rates of undiagnosed leprosy and subclinical infection amongst school children in the Amazon Region

Leprosy in children is correlated with community-level factors, including the recent presence of disease and active foci of transmission in the community. We performed clinical and serological examinations of 1,592 randomly selected school children (SC) in a cross-sectional study of eight hyperendemic municipalities in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Sixty-three (4%) SC, with a mean age of 13.3 years (standard deviation = 2.6), were diagnosed with leprosy and 777 (48.8%) were seropositive for anti-phenolic glycolipid-I (PGL-I). Additionally, we evaluated 256 house-hold contacts (HHCs) of the students diagnosed with leprosy; 24 (9.4%) HHC were also diagnosed with leprosy and 107 (41.8%) were seropositive. The seroprevalence of anti-PGL-I was significantly higher amongst girls, students from urban areas and students from public schools (p < 0.0001). Forty-five (71.4%) new cases detected amongst SC were classified as paucibacillary and 59 (93.6%) patients did not demonstrate any degree of physical disability at diagnosis. The results of this study suggest that there is a high rate of undiagnosed leprosy and subclinical infection amongst children in the Amazon Region. The advantages of school surveys in hyperendemic areas include identifying leprosy patients at an early stage when they show no physical disabilities, preventing the spread of the infection in the community and breaking the chain of transmission.

Establishing erosion susceptibility: analytical hierarchical process and traditional approaches

This study evaluated alternatives for producing erosion susceptibility maps, considering different weight combinations for an environment's attributes, according to four different points of views. The attributes considered were landform, steepness, soils, rocks and land occupation. Considered alternatives were: (1) equal weights, more traditional approach, (2) different weights, according to a previous study in the area, (3) different weights, based on other works in the literature, and (4) different weights based on the analytical hierarchical process. The area studied included the Prosa Basin located in Campo Grande-Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. The results showed that the assessed alternatives can be used together or in different stages of studies aiming at urban planning and decision-making on the interventions to be applied.

Análise comparativa do mercado imobiliário em Cidades Médias: a oferta de apartamentos, casas e terrenos urbanos em Campina Grande – PB, Mossoró – RN e Passo Fundo – RS

This presente monograph propose the analysis and discussion of the production of urban space and the processes of their structuring intraurbana from the dynamics of the real estate market into three Medium-sized Cities, Campina Grande - PB, Mossoró - RN and Passo Fundo - RS, whereas the various agents producing this space, in a comparative perspective. From this urban dynamic search to analyze the processes and relations present in these spaces, which are important for its production. From the compilation of real estate advertisements in local newspapers, are analyzed offerings of urban land, houses and apartments in each one of these cities by highlighting their locations and differentiated prices. Thus, working with data from real estate ads from the period 1995 - 2010 and a comparative perspective of the characteristics of real estate markets of three medium-sized cities, it tried to apprehend processes that are common between them and other individuals, to each one. Therefore the comparative analysis developed in this monograph sought to verify whether there are similarities between the cities in relation to the trends of concentration/spatial dispersion of bids and movements throughout time, in addition to a further intensification of the activities of real estate agents in face of such trends and offerings. In addition, we sought to remove a set of problematization that allow them to understand with more acute, in this set of medium cities of Brazilian urban network, processes of change that is already being discussed in the recent period by ReCiMe.

O transporte coletivo urbano em São José do Rio Preto - SP e sua relação com as transformações do espaço urbano

The process of urbanization that happened in Brazil during the twentieth century led to processes of structuring and re-organization of space, besides the emergence of many urban problems. Industrialization and urbanization are some of the main causes that could be cited as consequences of this process. As a result of the steep rise of cities, the transport systems became fundamental in boosting flows (immaterial) and the mobility of people and stuff (materials) in the territory. The urban model created for the city of São Paulo in the 1930s was repeated over the years in the medium-sized cities, being repeated the same problems that occurred in the metropolis. In this context our work fits in analyzing the changes occurring in the urban area of São José do Rio Preto - SP, from his relationship with the public transportation system in the face of intra-urban spatial configuration of the city. Transport, while it is recognized by authors as being really important for the analysis and intra-urban spatial configuration, has been little analyzed as the object of study by a geographer, and so, our work has more value

Diplopods and Agrochemicals-a Review

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Off-line TMAH-GC/MS and NMR characterization of humic substances extracted from river sediments of northwestern Sao Paulo under different soil uses

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)