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The article examines the evolution of ideas and some good practices concerning urban sustainability as a basis to explore possible futures for city planning in Latin America, based on the current situation on the continent. The paper is structured in three steps, starting with the theoretical framework of concepts and principles as well as their evolution. Based on that, the current situation in Latin American cities is characterized, in order to undertake the third step o proposing possible solutions, taking into account problems and potentialities, as well as good practices in this and other continents. Results and discussions are focused on ways to be followed in order to contribute to the development of more sustainable cities in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents an overview of the changing meanings attributed to the term "development" in Latin American social sciences from the end of World War II to 2000. It points to four main usages: economic growth, social and economic development, sustainable development, and human development. While the first two predominated until the early 1970s, culminating in the idea of "national development," from the early 1990s, the other two began to take shape to characterize some of the scientific community's most urgent ethical concerns and action-oriented discourse until the end of the century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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