This paper describes the urban design of the digital city called AlphaWorld. AlphaWorld is a digital community created in 1995 and accessed daily through the internet by thousands of users. Unlike other digital communities, AlphaWorld’s users may also settle land and construct objects within the world. The design and content of these constructions are determined autonomously, and the cumulative...

This paper presents the result of a study that assessed use cash in retail transactions city São Paulo and influence individuals´ sociodemographic condition transaction value on likelihood paying with banknotes. Respondents were selected by quota sampling process based their profiles. The analyses carried out using Pearson´s chi-squared test, as well estimates from probit models. results indica...

This article records the flow of young people from riverside who migrate to municipality Abaetetuba in search better living conditions, formal employment and higher education and/or technical courses. Data were collected semi-structured interviews with countryside city, women between 15 27 years old, born raised communities and, later, some settled city spaces. Out a total 37 interviewed on far...

In this study the structure of the mortality of two groups of infants settled in the same environmental context is analysed: the comarca (a typical Spanish sub-division of territory) of La Cabrera (province of León, Spain) between the years 1880 and 1932. In this geographical region of the northwest of Spain two communities of infants from different origins are found in this time period. On the...

Unprecedented human mobility has driven the rapid urbanization around the world. In China, the fraction of population dwelling in cities increased from 17.9% to 52.6% between 1978 and 2012. Such large-scale migration poses challenges for policymakers and important questions for researchers. To investigate the process of migrant integration, we employ a one-month complete dataset of telecommunic...

Unprecedented human mobility has driven the rapid urbanization around the world. In China, the fraction of population dwelling in cities increased from 17.9% to 52.6% between 1978 and 2012. Such large-scale migration poses challenges for policymakers and important questions for researchers. To investigate the process of migrant integration, we employ a one-month complete dataset of telecommunic...

This article aims to present the concept of border based on migrants settled in Tapachula and Ciudad Hidalgo (municipal seat Suchiate). From qualitative, ethnographic, phenomenological research, meaning is studied from real, symbolic, imaginary through territorialization processes that include experiences ways internal external appropriation housing city. The relevance topic reflecting construc...