The paradox of informal settlements revealed in an ATLAS of informality: Findings from mapping growth in the most common yet unmapped forms of urbanization

J Samper, JA Shelby, D Behary - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Informal settlements are the most common form of urbanization on the planet, accounting for
one-third of the total urban form. It is expected that by the mid twenty-first century, up to three …

“The pandemic only gave visibility to what is invisible”: a qualitative analysis of structural violence during COVID-19 and impacts on gender-based violence in Brazil

L Vahedi, S McNelly, N Lukow, AC Fonseca… - BMC public health, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic produced alarming rates of disease and mortality
globally, yet few nations were as severely impacted as Brazil. The pandemic also exposed …

Favelas 4D: Scalable methods for morphology analysis of informal settlements using terrestrial laser scanning data

A Salazar Miranda, G Du, C Gorman… - … and Planning B …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
One billion people live in informal settlements worldwide. The complex and multilayered
spaces that characterize this unplanned form of urbanization pose a challenge to traditional …

Sociospatial reading of favela: a comparative analysis from organic Portuguese cities

VRT Loureiro, VAS Medeiros, MRP Guerreiro - 2019 - icts.unb.br
This research decodifies the favelas spatial system through its configuration in comparison
to historical organic structures aiming at searching similar self-organized processes. It is …

O conceito de rendimento da escola italiana de morfologia: um parâmetro para a boa forma da cidade

HR da Costa, RL Rego - Revista de …, 2019 - revistademorfologiaurbana.pnum …
Como transpor o conceito de 'rendimento'da escola italiana de morfologia urbana para a
língua portuguesa e associá-lo diretamente à escala da cidade? Desenvolvido …