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This study aims to present a theoretical discussion about the role of tourism in the expansion and spatial reorganization of capitalism in sun and beach destinations on the periphery of capitalism. To support the discussion, we use the concept of spatial solution, in addition to the concepts of extensive and concentrated urbanization to analyze the spaces of the tourist urbanization and the spaces known as “the other side of the road” or “the second city”. It is based on the argument that tourism is an efficient instrument in the geographical expansion of capitalism as it requires a complex process of urbanization for its development. It is considered that the double process of urbanization generated by tourism is directly related to the need for capital to profitably produce and absorb surpluses in its constant search for accumulation. Thus, the discourse of social benefit and poverty reduction vanishes through accumulation practices that extractively use all possible resources for profit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study evaluates the territorial aspects of the sugar-energy sector (i.e., producer of both sugarcane and derivatives) in small urban centers in the region named Triângulo Mineiro (west of the State of Minas Gerais). These urban centers correspond to the seats of municipalities which have experienced a significant expansion of planting and industrial production at the beginning of this century. These centers, referred to as "sugarcane towns" in this study, have become economically dependent on the sugar-energy sector. The lack of job alternatives has established a restricted routine for the local population, despite the public authorities' interest in having this sector as a driving force for development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Changes in anthropogenic sources identified in the processes of urban expansion, suppression of vegetation, soil sealing, changes in the drainage cycle and their influence on the diversity of environmental systems are characterized as aspects that can generate negative environmental impacts. From this theme, it is necessary to develop techniques that make possible the comprehension of the temporal extension of these modifications. Since then, the proposal for the use of more specific geoindicators has been widely considered within the scientific community as a method to aid in the recognition of the probable changes identified in the landscape, space and temporal scales that can contribute to the identification of probable environmental impacts and/or in the planning of mitigating actions. Thus, the present article aimed to understand the role of geoindicators in the identification of probable changes originating from anthropogenic actions in urbanized environments. In addition, it proposes to present and discuss the different proposals of geoindicators that can be used in the identification of hydrogeomorphological modifications diagnosed in urban areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drift and psychogeography are both practical and theoretical Situationist International's proposals, developed in order to critically unveil the daily life linked to the urbanization process. This article offers a constitutive pathway of these proposals along the Situationist International's history and tries to establish the relationships and reasons why the drift and psychogeography are valuable tools for field work in Urban Geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Villa Platina was named that way from 1901 to 1915. Before 1901 it was named Arraial de São José do Tijuco and after 1915 it became a city with the name of Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais. The period in which it was denominated Villa Platina maches with the apex period called Belle Époque. The research is based on theoretical methodological assumptions established by Fernand Braudel, in which the socio-political and economic context for the study of fashion is considered. The aim of this article is to analyse an aspect of Platinense society: the beginning of the urbanization process of Ituiutaba and its relation with this fashion created in great European centers. he research is based on official documents of the municipal and state public administration, on newspapers, on fashion magazines and on bibliographical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bourgeois revolutions that took place in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards promoted, in various parts of the globe, conditions for the development of an economy linked to railroads. Considering that this process caused the implantation of a railroad network in the territory of Goiás, the objective of this paper is to analyze the formation of the Estrada de Ferro Goiás and its influence on urbanization and on the daily lives of cities that benefited from the rails. The methodological procedures were based on bibliographic research, documentary analysis, secondary data collection, fieldwork and the mapping of the rails location. The analysis was centered in the interpretations of local facts and in the contextualization of the railroad as a crucial factor in the production process of the territory and the territorial modernization. It was found that not only did the railroad alter the economic configuration of the goiano territory, but it also influenced its urbanization process, causing significant transformations to daily lives of the goiana society at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When considering the geotecnology innovations come enhancing new studies in contemporary times, It notes that the geoinformation of precepts have an effective application in addressing watershed. Thus, the study aims to map the socio-environmental vulnerability in coastal watersheds of rivers Catú, Cabure, Caponga Funda, Caponga Roseira and Mal Cozinhado, located in the eastern sector of the metropolitan area of Fortaleza, state of Ceara. The theoretical-methodological foundation lies in the systemic studies, based on the bias of the indivisible conception of nature and society. The Environmental Vulnerability Index was structured from the integrated analysis of the ecodynamics conditions (Environmental Vulnerability), together with the Socio-Economic Vulnerability (Municipal Human Development Index). The results achieved in this study portray that 82.27% of the area is classified in the low zone or medium-low Environmental Vulnerability and 17.73% are in the medium-high or high vulnerability zone. We conclude that in the area referred is very intense the anthropogenic pressure on environmental systems, with special emphasis on the river, lake and coastal plains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]