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.

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.

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Se analizan las relaciones existentes entre temperaturas urbanas y concentraciones de material particulado a una escala que representa la totalidad de la ciudad, destacando su división en dos zonas bien delimitadas, que ubicadas al oriente y poniente de la misma, durante los días de ocurrencia de las peores condiciones de contaminación atmosférica.

Haliç (The Golden Horn) is a mythical place that belongs not only to the history of Istanbul but to the whole of Europe. At Haliç land and sea merge: the natural harbour of ancient Constantinople, home to the naval arsenal and place of delights, it saw its natural and urban state change completely in the final phases of the Ottoman Empire. Its recent history has been marked by a process of intense industrialization, developing uncontrollably on its banks between the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

The study of the urban transformation of Cotia, located in the periphery of the metropolis, aims the documentation of the region urban development, starting on the 18 century, and its analysis, taking São Paulo city as reference. This analysis was elaborated from the social-economics and spatial relations of the urban development, from the city adequation to the metropolitan area planning, from the linearity that the Raposo Tavares highway imposes to the urban composition and the characteristics of the middle-class residence condominiums determined to the territory.

Over more than ten years, France has experienced a twofold increase of residential housing prices. This was largely fuelled by the credit conditions and a general fear of the future. A strong negative correlation between initial price level and its increase leads to a massive trend of spatial homogenization of the prices. Such a tendency is fairly vigorous in the metropolitan area of Marseille, and particularly in its extremely poor and long devaluated centre, where prices have risen by over 200% since the mid-1990s.

Este estudio analiza la relación entre la tenencia de títulos de propiedad (registrados) y los mercados inmobiliarios en zonas de la ciudad que tuvieron un origen informal y/o ilegal. Al hacerlo plantea cuestionamientos a los presupuestos internacionales y encuentra paradojas en el funcionamiento del mercado de suelo popular. La metodología es cuantitativa y cualitativa. Las conclusiones muestran que en asentamientos no consolidados la tenencia de un título de propiedad contribuye a un mayor valor de los predios con relación a aquellos no titulados.

This article discusses the effects of coastal development projects carried out along the banks of the Paraná River in the city of Posadas, Argentina, which include the eradication of the illegal city situated in this large area in order to build the legal city that is open to the river.