The São Paulo State Department of Social Housing (SEHAB) decided to develop a new experience: to search in the residents' speech a precondition to think the urban projects for the area of Cabuçu de Cima (Jaçanã/Tremembé, North Zone) of São Paulo…
Research presented here was financed by the National Research Agency (ANR) between 2005 and 2007. It brought together sociologists, architects and town planners around the question of the prerequisites for city-dwellers to decide to walk in town?…
The chapter is based on the analysis of the reconstructions' projects in Beirut and their implementation between 1977 and 2004. A special attention is given to plans that were never implemented but, we contend, left imprints both at the legal level…
Shine and heat was my first impression of Dolavon, then the contrast of its canal: shadow and water where children play. An intense and pleasant contrast. The town offers the harmony shown by those places where human voracity has been somewhat…
The renegotiation of regulatory contracts is known to prevent regulators from achieving the full commitment efficient outcome in dynamic contexts. However, assessing the cost of such renegotiation remains an open issue from an empirical viewpoint. To…
Working women are the social norm today in France. 46.5% of working people are women. However, the barriers to entry or retention in the labour market remain a reality and inequalities between men and women remain stark. The general picture shows…
The paper exams the relationships between travel and activity times, in 7 travel surveys from 4 French and 3 Swiss cities, observed at two different periods. First, we test proportional assignment of total daily available time to activities…
This paper examines the selection of the capital city of the Eastern Cape Province in 1994, an important concern in post-apartheid political geography. Initially there were four contenders, Bisho- King William's Town, Umtata, Grahamstown and Port…
On the one hand the present globalisation process has only been made possible through a reduction of time-distances allowed by high speeds, and particularly through the development of the air mode. On the other hand the metropolisation process seen…
Our era is often described as a moment of globalization and urbanization. The two words, often used interchangeably, describe movements and concentration of populations in 'new' places often Diasporas described as centers of 'development'. At both…
The aim of this article was to assess specific problems concerning traffic congestion access to the city of Paris. First, we attempted to evaluate the evolution of the congestion cost for the Paris Ring-Road (PRR), the major urban highway surrounding…
Based on ethnographic observations and interviews in cafés in Copenhagen, and online descriptions in which users review their experience of cafés, this paper focuses on how materiality and sociality inter-relate to constitute a relaxed, pleasant…
The sonic niche is a design tool I first conceived for the project Soundscapes Oltrarno, in its "digital" version, where we can see it realized through the application of "Spot Sounds" and the use of new digital technologies. I subsequently theorized…
The first democratic municipal elections, held on 5 December 2000 brought to an end the interim system of local government and put in its place a democratic system based on the South african Constitution.
Martha Huang examines how the Westernized pictorial gaze was, at times painfully, assumed by China's cultural producers in the first half of the twentieth century. Hang Zhiying 杭穉英 (1900-1947) trained at the Commercial Press in Shanghai, but left in…
Sophia Antipolis was created by the public authorities to attract high value added activities on the French Riviera, in the aim of strengthening a local economy driven historically by tourism. The theoretical model that has inspired the creation of…
Lors des élections locales de 2003, le Parti de la justice et du développement (PJD), principal parti « islamiste » marocain, a opéré une percée remarquable dans les villes. Ses élus, qui pour la plupart faisaient leurs premiers pas dans la carrière,…
Comment mettre au point une connaissance scientifique des manières dont les êtres humains ha- bitent ? Cette question est plus difficile à traiter qu'elle n'en a l'air du premier coup d'oeil. Car, si nous disposons de multiples réponses - modèle…
Par la capacité de mise en réseau des lieux et des hommes, les technologies d'information et de communication (TIC) constituent des outils indispensables aux stratégies de développement territorial.Une approche technique et historique des…
To analyze the response of cities to urban policies or transportation shocks, describing a succession of stationary states is not enough, and urban dynamics should be taken into account. To do so, the urban economics model NEDUM is proposed. This…
