Thinking about urban viaduct areas and their use as housing in brazilian cities

Thinking about urban viaduct areas and their use as housing in Brazilian cities

1 ABSTRACT This text is based on the fact that the viaduct areas constitute nowadays the shelter and the income source of one parcel of the urban population of great Brazilian cities. It is intended, at first, to trace a picture of habitation situation in contemporary Brazil, regarding matters related to local production and its reach. Next, through an investigation about the characteristics of...

the relationship between iranian efl learners beliefs about rote learning, their use of vocabulary learning strategies and their success in vocabulary learning: a think-aloud protocol study

the purpose of this study was to investigate iranian efl learners’ beliefs about the role of rote learning (rl) in vocabulary learning strategies; besides, the study examined if english proficiency would influence learners’ vocabulary learning strategy use. this study addresses the need for a clear understanding of the role of rl in efl vocabulary learning by looking at iranian efl learners’ ow...

Urban geographies I: Still thinking cities relationally

This review essay revisits recent scholarship within urban geography that has been shaped by relational theory, looking specifically at the scholarship on urban policy mobilities and urban assemblages. As will be shown, current urban geographies of relationality operate with irreconcilable grammars.

Modeling Housing Demand for New Residential Buildings in Urban Areas

T his study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of Iran during 1976-2010. The demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the Bounds testing of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Co-integration procedure. The t...

Thinking about chronic urban poverty