Since 1970, the Santa Catarina municipality of Balneário Camboriú has opted for a strategy of radical densification, allowing almost limitless verticalization on the central border. The city built a unique landscape, bringing together eight of the largest buildings in the country. This strategy is reflected in the master plans and legislation for land use and occupation, which opted for flexible urban control, seeking to manage the impact of large enterprises on a case-bycase basis. More recently, the municipality has been using urban planning instruments provided for in the City Statute to, on the one hand, maximize positive externalities arising from real estate development and, on the other hand, minimize impacts caused by the negative externalities of this urbanization process. To collectively appropriate benefits generated by real estate appreciation, the city has been using consortium urban operations to raise funds from the real estate sector for infrastructure works. The use of neighborhood impact studies, on the other hand, seeks to minimize and compensate for the socioenvironmental and landscape impacts of large projects. The analysis of economic, tax and socio-environmental indicators seems to demonstrate that the municipality has achieved success in terms of economic and socio-environmental development, but it is observed that a better use of the available urban instruments would have the potential to increase the benefits for the population as a whole.
Interurban mobility from a systemic and integrated perspective is not much studied in Brazil. It comprises the movements that take place between cities, with the objective of meeting non-daily needs, through different modals of transport and different dimensions of administrative management. The use of a big data with mobile phone information in Brazil, modeling techniques and the crossing with secondary data from different sources, allowed an unprecedented overview at this mobility, and exposes how this integrated vision can contribute to the improvement of the planning. The results demonstrate a distinct mobility for different Brazilian locations. The accessibility offered to the population presents regional differences, and the data indicate that the more than 2 billion individual trips made annually considered different parameters for their travel and modal choices, in addition to the cost and time of transportation. Intercity transportation by car is the majority (58%), mainly due to the limited supply of services and infrastructure in other modes (just 1% of domestic connections have more than one mode of transportation offered). However, air transport (25%) and road transport by bus (17%) have a significant contribution to the modal division of transport production.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.