Emília Rebelo

University of Porto | UP

Any planning decision to develop and implement a territorial plan or to make a public investment will engender different kinds of externalities, such as increased land values. The research reported in this article aims to lay the foundations for the development of a market-based land tool based on the capture of betterments that stem from public in...

Considering the increasing touristic supply and demand, globalization, and the entailed increases in property prices, which strategies and instruments should urban planning use to take advantage of these higher prices and revert them on behalf of the local inhabitants to ensure them a good quality of life? This article will propose a planning instr...

This article presents the results of a research project on the design of a particular value capture instrument in the form of a development obligation. This has been modelled to capture part of the betterment engendered by tourism-oriented plans. The article subsequently explores the potential of applying this levy in the interest of social goals,...

The concept of metropolitan governance embraces the whole set of institutions and actions that rule or determine conditions for metropolitan territorial policy. It extends beyond the city or municipal jurisdictional boundaries, bypassing preexisting agreements and institutions, and demanding bigger geographical units and access to financial and hum...

The main goal of this article consists in the proposal of a developer obligations’ instrument aimed at capturing land betterments that result from planning decisions and from the implementation of territorial plans, reassigning them to public infrastructure, equipment and social purposes. It consists in charging for extra development rights beyond...

In this communication are reported the assumptions, methodology, outcomes and conclusions of a research carried out within the scope, of the revision of the Land, Territorial Ordinance and Urbanism Act, currently under way in Portugal. This is a deep revision, and it points out the importance of the economic and financial sustainability of urban de...

This chapter analyses the relations between the characteristics of different groups of immigrants and their integration. A decision-support system is developed that was founded on a management information system, a set of integration indicators, and cartographic and simulation interfaces for the simulation of territorially-focused policies. This re...

The research reported in this article aims to explain the residential and work location patterns of different groups of immigrants living in a particular metropolitan area, based on the following underlying causes: socio-spatial differentiation resulting from the characteristics of urban economies, the performance of housing and labour markets, spa...

The main objective of this article is to develop a methodology of cartographic analysis to support municipal decisions concerning attraction, location, and distribution of immigrants in metropolitan areas, ensuring respective integration. This innovative methodology is aimed at identifying settlement patterns (and their respective intensities) adop...

This article stresses the importance of urban planning interventions on real estate office markets in an environment increasingly characterized by globalization processes and progress of information and communication technologies, leaving behind the traditional influence of more market-related variables spread abroad vast literature. It contends th...

The core concern of this chapter consists in raising the problem of speculation and of greediness in converting agricultural into urban land in development processes, current in developed societies. Speculation springs as a counterpart of a succession of conceptual and operational flaws, inconsistencies and contradictions in juridical, planning and...

This article aims to test the hypothesis that urban concentration/dispersion characteristics exert an influence on the social and professional attainment levels reached by different immigrant groups in northern Portugal. I propose a theoretical and empirical methodology for analysing the impact that concentrated or dispersed neighbourhoods exert on...

Neste artigo são apresentados o enquadramento, objectivos, resultados e conclusões do projecto de investigação “Planeamento Urbano para a Integração de Imigrantes”1. Propõe-se uma abordagem metodológica e desenvolve-se um sistema integrado e interactivo de apoio à decisão – aplicado à Área Metropolitana do Porto - que permite caracterizar os padrõe...

This paper proposes a methodological approach to regional and urban planning in order to design, settle and manage a public policy for the attraction, location and distribution of different groups of immigrants. It further develops a set of decision-support tools, including a management information system and an integrated and interactive model in...

The main aim of this study is to understand the relevant variables underlying the mechanisms of office supply, office demand, and market equilibrium to support municipal decision-making processes. Public decisions, at the local level, are expected to ensure that office prices are kept under control, avoiding the speculative behaviour of real-estate...

Neste artigo efectua-se uma análise do impacto das decisões de planeamento sobre os preços fundiários e imobiliários, e do modo como as mais-valias introduzidas por estas decisões poderão/deverão ser recuperadas e geridas em favor do bem-estar social e da promoção e consolidação do desenvolvimento regional e urbano. É proposta uma metodologia que p...

This article proposes an innovative methodology to compute economic rents of land designed to current or potential offices uses. It consists in the establishment of a cause-and-effect relation between offices’ price levels and correspondent levels of land rent, considering the main factors that influence property prices, the ones that guide public...

In legal terms, the bases of spatial planning and urbanism policy are laid out in law nº 48/98, of 11th August, where it states that “spatial planning and urbanism policy state and involve the actions promoted by the Public Administration, aiming at providing suitable organisation and usage of the national territory, with the perspective of enhanci...

O livro PLANEAMENTO URBANO PARA A INTEGRAÇÃO DE IMIGRANTES visa caracterizar a situação actual dos imigrantes e das minorias étnicas na Área Metropolitana do Porto, bem como a respectiva evolução, no que se refere às suas características profissionais e de emprego, atributos habitacionais, e localização espacial da residência e do emprego, consider...

O objectivo deste artigo, elaborado no âmbito do projecto de investigação “Planeamento Urbano para a Integração de Imigrantes”1 , consiste na identificação, em termos teóricos e práticos, da relação entre os níveis de atingimento profissional e um conjunto de variáveis profissionais, habitacionais e das vizinhanças residenciais dos estrangeiros res...

Neste artigo desenvolve-se um modelo integrado de avaliação de imobiliário de escritórios e de rendas do solo urbano para uso de escritórios, que consiste num conjunto de ferramentas interactivas, incluindo um interface cartográfico, com o objectivo de apoiar as decisões de planeamento e fiscais dos agentes municipais, e a respectiva implementação....

Nesta comunicação realça-se a importância das inter-relações entre o Planeamento e a Economia Urbana, bem como a actuação proactiva dos poderes municipais no sentido da regulamentação, orientação, coordenação e controlo dos usos do solo urbano. Analisa-se de que modo o Planeamento Municipal dos usos do solo influencia o Mercado Imobiliário, enquant...

Neste artigo apresenta-se um modelo de gestão urbanística dos investimentos em imobiliário por parte dos poderes municipais. É constituído por um conjunto de ferramentas de base matemática e cartográfica de apoio à decisão, e é aplicado, como estudo de caso, à cidade do Porto. O modelo integrado permite simular políticas alternativas de gestão urba...

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Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Engenharia Civil, na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, sob a orientação do Professor Doutor Paulo Correia