Portuguese Abstract: Neste artigo, são discutidas as características relacionadas à insegurança da posse do solo urbano de Minas Gerais, a partir dos dados da Pesquisa por Amostra de Domicílios (PAD) desse Estado, do ano de 2013, com o desenvolvimento, de forma inédita, de questões...

The Brazilian federal legislation on land subdivision approved in 1979 and its local implementation by municipalities contributed to increase housing informality from 1980 to 2000, a period of marked changes in the economic, demographic, and social scenarios. Econometric analysis of a...

Government intervention providing infrastructure or controlling urban development irregularly across different areas of the city can distort land prices reinforcing or inducing mechanisms of spatial exclusion. This paper presents estimates of the effects on land prices of state-provided...

A traditional variant of the studies of the spatial form of metropolitan areas traces population density gradients and interprets their variation in cross-section and time series samples according to hypotheses suggested by urban economic theory. Using census data from 1991 and 2000 we present...