Localização intraurbana das favelas brasileiras: O papel dos fatores geográficos

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Despite being home to about 1 billion people (UN-Habitat, 2010) worldwide slums have received little attention in the economic literature. Data on slums is scarce and few studies have investigated the emergence of these pockets of poverty and inadequate housing scattered between otherwise regular urban areas. We bring some empirical grounding to this debate, by combining Census, terrain topography and water bodies data for Brazil. Thus, we provide the first consistent estimates on location, growth and the socio-economic characteristics of their inhabitants for every slum in Brazil. We show that while there is a strong association between income and distance to the city center for formal housing agents, the same association is less clear for informal housing agents. Moreover, the spatial dispersion of slums varies significantly between metropolitan areas. We propose one explanation for this: the role of geography. In fact, topographic and environmental conditions of informal housing areas are worse. In some extent, risky life conditions are the cost of having access to the opportunities only found with the proximity to the central formal city.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Portugiesisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Texto para Discussão ; No. 2390

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure ; Housing Supply and Markets
• Thema: slums ; intra urban location ; topography ; hydrography

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nadalin, Vanessa Gapriotti ; Mation, Lucas Ferreira
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
• (wo): Brasília
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/211341
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ