Browsing by Keyword "Metropolitan areas"

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Density and scattered development: a tale of 10 Cities

Biderman, Ciro
2012

Themes such as sprawl, compact city, leapfrogging, have been out of the economics literature for a long time despite the great interest of urban planners and citizens in general. This is changing fast since the 2000s. The ...
The geographic dynamics of industry employment in Brazilian metropolitan areas: lessons for São Paulo

Biderman, Ciro; Lopes, Marcos Felipe Mendes
2015-09-01

We discuss historic trends in large metropolitan areas in Brazil showing that manufacturing has decreased its share in the country but the movement was, in general, more intense in large metropolitan areas and particularly ...