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CO TENTS Preface Urban Developments in Brazil and Portugal -An Introduction Fernanda Cravidifo, Jose Alberto Rio Fernandes and Marcia Moraes Valen<;a Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Globalization and Urban Policy in the Periphery of Capitalism Erminia Maricato Urban Adjustment: World Bank and IDB Policies for Cities Pedro Fiori Arantes A Bridge to Speculation or the Art of Rent in the Staging of a "Global City" Mariana Fi.x Urban Policy Goals and Territorial Planning - Articulations and Lessons from Planning Urban Regions in Portugal JoiJ.o Cabral and Jose Crespo Lisbon: Metropolis and Urbanized Landscape Sofia Morgado The Close Relationship Between Tourism and Privately Governed Territory -A Sustainable Urban Solution in Brazil? Maria Floresia Pessoa de Sousa e Silva and Paulo Jose Lisboa Nobre Enabling Local Development Through Digital Cities: Examples from Portugal Barbara Barbosa Neves ix 1 5 25 35 77 95 113 139
VI Contents Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chaper 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Water-Sensitive Urban Planning: A Simulation Approach for a Coastal Plain in Brazil Jana A. A. Rufino, Carlos de 0. Galviio, Vajapeyam S. Srinivasan, Janiro C. Rego and Jose do Patrocfnio T. Albuquerque Housing Policy and Urban Development: The Brazilian Experience Rosa Moura and Clovis Ultramari Sound Salad: The Soundscapes of a Brazilian Favela Andrea Medrado Geographic Dimensions of the Brazilian Metropolitan Areas Peripherization Process Ralfo Matos and Ricardo A. Garcia Socio-Economic Segregation and Activity Spaces in Cities of the Northeastern Part of Brazil - Natal, An Example Julia Richter Social Housing Design in Southern Brazil and its Implications for Urban Development Antonio Tarcfsio Reis and Maria Cristina Dias Lay Citizenship Between Urbanization and Protecting Cultural Heritage Miguel Sopas de Melo Bandeira,_} From Urban Renewal to Gentrification of Leisure and Consumption: Spatial Appropriation Strategies in the Central Area of an Amazonian City Saint-Clair Cordeiro da Trindade Junior The Innovative and Normative Role of Culture in Urban Development Policies: Questioning "Peripheries" in Urban Spaces of Brazil and Portugal Nicolas Bautes and Elodie Valette Evening/Night-Time Leisure in Coimbra Norberto Pinto dos Santos and Claudete Oliveira Moreira Centrality and Symbolic Order in Porto Alegre Metropolitan Region Romulo Krafta and Yuri Kokubun "Tourism, Trade and Cocoa": Politics and Tourist Space in llheus, Brazil Roque Pinto 159 171 193 213 229 249 273 285 299 317 339 353
Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Index Contents Rock Music and Place as Purpose in Brasilia Jesse Samba Wheeler Brazilian Immigrant Women in Lisbon, Portugal Luciana Pontes Pinto An Interpretive Visit to the Quartier Portugais in Montreal Guilherme Azevedo Vll 371 387 405 435