... design urban planning Curitiba Brazil political factors institutional factors citizen involvement Over the past several decades, Curitiba, Brazil, has been referred to as an environmentally sustainable “model city” and as a remarkable example of both a successful urban planning process and a large...

... explores the topic of meaning in the cities of the eastern lowlands by looking at the issues of cosmograms, political emulation, how planning knowledge was acquired and transmitted, and processional architecture. The chapter concludes that the disparity seen in degrees of urban planning reflects more about...

...This chapter examines the urban preservation, cultural heritage and place marketing at the Pelourinho located in Salvador, Bahia, in Brazil. It explains that the Pelourinho's renovation is part of a series of cultural revitalization initiatives and urban planning interventions that seek...

...This chapter treats the cities covered by this book as a group to consider urban planning in the eastern lowlands. The discussion begins by rank ordering the cities in terms of size and then comparing plazas, carved monuments, ball courts, and causeways to illuminate similarities and differences...

.... Taking their cues from a robust scholarship on landscape archaeology, urban planning, political history, and settlement pattern studies in Maya research, the authors in this volume explore conceptions of monumentality and landscapes that are the products of long-term research and varied research agendas...