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Dans cette communication, nous interrogeons la réalité du glissement de la "gestion" à une "gouvernance" des réseaux d'Alimentation en Eau Potable, en mesurant en particulier les effets de deux paramètres. Le premier paramètre concerne la délégation…

In an ongoing research project the design of acoustical atmospheres in large indoor spaces are investigated. The research question is : "How to redesign one sonic atmosphere into a variation of sub-atmospheres in large indoor spaces ?" This question…

Situated at the intersection of economic restructuring and crime control, this thesis explores the practices and policies of economic regeneration, community safety and policing in the city of Glasgow. In particular old-industrial cities and regions…

Présentation : L’ouvrage Beyrouth, une ville d’Orient marquée par l’Occident, de Helmut Ruppert, est singulier à plus d’un titre. Il s’agit de la thèse de doctorat de l’auteur, soutenue…

Since 1970, oil has given the Arab Gulf cities the opportunity to break regional and international records in urban development and economic growth, experiencing dramatic changes in the political, economic and socio-cultural domains, and especially…

A Simple Model of Working Time as a Taktgeber Even the everyday talking on cities has time connotations. We speak of a metropolis, a harbour city, a commercial city, a university town, an industrial town and the like. All these descriptions indicate…

This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through ‘invited spaces’ offered by the government and ‘claimed spaces’ created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty…

Inventaire des édifices religieux à Strasbourg du Moyen-Age au XVIIIème s. d'après les sources textuelles et archéologiques. Outre les couvents, les églises et la cathédrale, il est fait un point sur les diverses chapelles intra et extra muros, qui…

Synthèse historique et archéologique concernant la mise en place et l'évolution des différents systèmes défensifs strasbourgeois depuis ses origines romaine (castel de Drusus, 13-9 av. J.-C.) jusqu'au XIXème s. Au sein de ce large cadre chronologique…

Analyse de la gestion municipale en Inde et plus particulièrement de son rôle dans l'aménagement urbain des villes

Demographic transition and mobility of the population in Tropical Africa.
The questions of population play an important part in the process of development of the Third World. With the example of Tropical Africa and two themes, Henri Nicolai points…

Les relations entre le lieu, l'espace et la santé demeurent ambigus du fait de conceptions disciplinaires différentes. D'abord du fait d'une confusion fréquente entre géographie et cartographie, et d'une définition encore mal cernée de…

Regional analysis of Belgian fertility (1961-1981).

Within a generation's span, fertility has declined in Belgium, like in other industrialized countries, to the point that the renewal of the population is not ensured any longer. Regional…

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Shanghai was probably the first large metropolis to experience large-scale modern warfare in its very midst. Bitter and brutal fighting raged for three months in and around the city, with intense bombings from ships and planes. The war threw…

Full title : London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. Extract from the Preface : The present volume is the first of an intended…

The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887) was an English social researcher, journalist…

Extract from the Preface to Volume One : The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887)…