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Informality in Brazil: Does Urban Land Use and Building Regulation Matter?

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dc.contributor.author Biderman, Ciro
dc.date.accessioned 2011-10-17T17:34:30Z
dc.date.available 2011-10-17T17:34:30Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7618
dc.description.abstract "New evidence from Brazil indicates that the regulation of land use and building standards can reinforce other factors that contribute to informal and irregular urban land occupation. The magnitude and persistence of informality in Latin American cities cannot be fully explained by poverty rates (which are declining), insufficient public investment in social housing or urban infrastructure (which is expanding), or even government tolerance of certain opportunistic practices on the part of informal developers and occupants (The Economist 2007). While these factors are undoubtedly important, inappropriate land use and building regulation also seems to play a role in the resilience of the problem. It can be argued as a corollary that an alternative regulatory framework may help to alleviate informality in urban land markets." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject urban affairs en_US
dc.subject housing en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject regulation en_US
dc.title Informality in Brazil: Does Urban Land Use and Building Regulation Matter? en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region South America en_US
dc.coverage.country Brazil en_US
dc.subject.sector Urban Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Land Lines en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 20 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 14-19 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 3 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth July en_US


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