10 articles in this issue
Rodrigo Firmino,Harry Bollmann,Fábio Duarte
Dominique Boullier
Paola Pucci
This paper focuses on the potentialities offered by mobile phone data to a reading of the site practices and rhythms of usage of the contemporary city by identifying the principal mobile practices of different urban populations.Beginning with the results ... see more
Nancy Odendaal
The ubiquitous presence of mobile telephony and proliferation of digital networks imply a critical role for these technologies in overcoming the constraints of space in fragmented cities. Academic literature draws from a range of disciplines but fails to ... see more
Dominique Boullier,Maxime Crépel
The Vélib bike rental system is worth analyzing in order to understand how cities move out of a model of large infrastructures towards a personal service principle connected to digital traceability and mapping of all activities. The new offer of bikes dis... see more
Darren J. Reed,Mark R. Johnson
The following paper is concerned with elucidating an account of forms of new localism as they relate to the concept of ‘habitele’, a conceptual framework that helps us understand new forms of relatedness in the digitally mediated world. In doing this it w... see more
Polise Moreira De Marchi
The fundamental function of maps has always been to understand, interpret, and represent the world. Therefore, maps have a communication role, as a language. As communication tool, maps spatialize the interaction of social, economic and cultural urban rea... see more
Madianita Nunes da Silva
O artigo baseia-se nos resultados da pesquisa desenvolvida para a tese de doutorado e tem como objetivo caracterizar e analisar o processo de produção dos espaços informais de moradia na metrópole de Curitiba, entre as décadas de 1990 e 2000. A partir de ... see more
Clarissa Figueiredo Sampaio Freitas
As cidades brasileiras apresentam contrastes no que se refere ao modo de apropriação dos espaços ambientalmente frágeis. Se por um lado, determinados ecossistemas são preservados pelo Estado e apropriados pela iniciativa privada por meio da valorização im... see more
Sandra Maria Fonseca da Costa,Je´ssica Andretta Mendes,Viviana Mendes Lima,Bruno Henrique Colombari Moreira
A ilegalidade em relação à propriedade da terra tem sido um dos principais elementos da segregação socioespacial, no campo ou na cidade. A informalidade urbana no Brasil tem raízes históricas, principalmente associadas ao acesso a terra. De acordo com inf... see more