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During the second half of the 20th century there was a massive surge of illegal building in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Oporto. Houses were built without the proper licenses issued by the Municipalities that are also responsible for the supervision of constructions by private individuals. As a result of the building illegal nature, good urban planning practices were not taken into account; this led to problems in urban space and compromised its organization and evolution. quinta do Conde (sesimbra) was an Urban area developped illegaly (aUgi, the Portuguese acronym), whose first allotments were made in the 1960s. However, several factors have contributed to enhance its appeal, generating intense, constructive and functional population dynamics. the offer of trade and services exhibited deep changes since its inception, shifting from a business predominantly associated with food trade and construction, which had an incipient structure and familial organisation, to a more diversified product range, some of which quite specialised, in a more structured urban environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to understand the significance and importance of the current expansion of urban space in Brasília it is necessary to ascertain how to articulate the actions for the city's capitalist reproduction. We further need to understand how they configure new centralities, considering the spatial dimension as a mediator of these actions, given the necessity imposed by the transformation process of urbanization and the economy supported by public planning. In order to explain this process, we developed an analysis based on three main points: (i) the model of urban planning and management, and the action of agents and players who participate in it; (ii) the political actions related to the reproduction of new urban poles of animation; (iii) the role of government in the strengthening of the private sector for the entrepreneurial management of the city, through partnerships between the public and private sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]