Urban Form & Land Use

How is tourism-driven urbanization reshaping the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul, and what is it doing to sensitive coastal ecosystems?

How can sociospatial fragmentation be measured over five decades, and linked to the public policies and market dynamics that produced it?

What role do small cities play in the regional urban network, and what are their own sociospatial and morphological dynamics?

Where are Porto Alegre's gated communities, what do they look like, and what does their distribution say about segregation in the city?