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The quarters in the periphery of the Brazilian cities represent a formation relatively homogeneous, especilally the quarters of less evolved cities. The quarters in the periphery generally are situated in hilly localities; in the principal streets and avenues are found the best residences and business houses (stores). The structural services are very deficient in this quarters. The maintenance generally is bad and there aren't big stores. The commerce is replaced by little shops and similars. These little stores normally sell unique pieces and the people buy all days bread and milk, furthermore other basic products of nutrition. In the quarters of the periphery normally are living families with small wage, in their little space of living they have a way of life similar and they find themselves in front of calamities similars with a restrict family budget and un unsatisfactory situation of the quarter. The poverty, the illitralism, the undernourishment, the unemployment, low wages and the very bad residence conditions, which characterise the community living in the periphery quarters, represent at least the conditions of life of this population. The social conditions of the inhabitants of these periphery quarters and also the bad infrastructure of these quarters had been and are the motivation to organise the population in Associations of the Quarter. As a principal purpose these associations will improve the conditions of life and habitation of the population of these quarters. This paper is trying to analyse the mutual characteristics of the periphery quarter inhabitants of Brazilian cities. This way the paper will study the organization of the inhabitants by means of the Associations of the Quarter, which are created as a response of the fight of the population with low wage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Municipal solid waste issue has acquired a growing importance into urban management discussions, particularly in metropolitan areas. Although metropolitan regions were created for integrating public functions of common interest, it appears that the structures, in general, are limited to planning activities. In this context, the democratization process occurred in Brazil during 1980's led to the strengthening of inter-municipal arrangements of voluntary cooperation, acquiring great expressiveness in metropolitan areas, responsible for 60% of waste generated in Brazil. However, despite the consortia emergence as an alternative management of metropolitan territory, its process of setting up and operation is not free of challenges and dilemmas. This paper starts with the hypothesis that inter-municipal consortia in metropolitan areas have high strength asymmetry and weak regional identity among municipalities, conditions that tend to create barriers to its concretization. In this context, this research aims to develop a comparative study of inter-municipal arrangements for solid waste management in the metropolitan areas of Curitiba (pr), Belo Horizonte (bh) and Salvador (ba), by identifying influence degree of regional identity and strength asymmetry in these arrangements. The multiple case study reveals an inverse proportionality relationship between regional identity and strength asymmetry among the municipalities, deeply influenced by political interinstitutional arrangement and the metropolitan area in which they are is inserted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to discuss the dwelling verticalization process that the city of Recife, Brazil, is undergoing nowadays. In the last 50 years, the population of this city increased almost three times, while, as example, the district of Boa Viagem had its population increased almost five times. The same can be said about the dwelling-place amount, a situation that, among other traditional districts around the city, denotes the existence of a network of districts of speculative interests for the housing market. The new dwelling towers are rapidly spreading out through the city, thus directly influencing the new transit ways, the apparition of new urban centralities, and the gentrification of public spaces. Slowly, a new private culture is built, which defines new values of consumption and image, therefore establishing new social barriers. This immoderate land occupation, plotted by big civil architecture enterprises and stimulated by these new social groups, causes, in time, noxious consequences on the natural environment, with a serious propensity to become an irreversible situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]