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Présentation par l'éditeur : Ce recueil d'articles offre une série d'études nouvelles sur les lieux et les objets d'une rencontre entre l'architecture et la littérature du XIXe au XXIe siècle. Il associe…

Extract from the Preface: In Downtown San Francisco, just one block from the Transamerica pyramid, is the large relict basement of the International Hotel. The lot has stood empty since 1977. In the Western Addition, one and a half miles to the…

Extract from the introduction by Marco Bontje : After the conference, the participants have been asked to write a book contribution based on their presentations... While all contributions to this volume have been written by researchers from…

Abstract from the publisher : - The companion to Phaidon’s popular The Endless City, with the same mix of smart writing, remarkable photographs and incisive data on the field of urban development and its related disciplines - An authoritative…

Extract from the Editorial: In recent decades, settlement development in Germany has been determined by suburbanisation, particularly residential suburbanisation. The family was long regarded as the main driving force in this process. The common…

The paper explores demographic characteristics, migration history, and impact of flooding on households and communities. The main objective is to explore the different ways in which floods impact households and communities in Accra. Specifically, the…

Le secteur de la messagerie et de l'express a connu d'importantes recompositions dans son maillon urbain depuis une dizaine d'années. Confronté à l'évolution des comportements d'achat des consommateurs et des entreprises, le secteur accouche d'un…

The object of this paper is an analysis of the issue of town planning during the first years of the Italian occupation of Libya. Based upon the archives of the presidency of the council of ministers in Rome and on local archives in Tripoli, the…

The restructuring of local government is especially significant in the context of South Africa's emerging democracy, especially since this transformation "has taken place in a way that is probably unique from an international comparative…

This joint paper, which deals with policing in Italy, chiefly aims at describing the main evolutions which have occurred in the field of security over the last fifteen years. During the last decade, a new institutional process took place: beside the…

Localization of jobs and périphérie urbanization

Employment in the tertiary sector is increasing whereas it is decreasing in industry. Because the tertiary sector is highly concentrated in large towns, they mostly take advantage of this growth. The…

ProblématiqueCette recherche, avait pour objet de repérer les facteurs susceptibles d'expliquer les stratégies de localisation des entreprises et d'apprécier leurs conséquences sur la structuration de l'espace urbain.MéthodologieL'aire géographique…

Les services aux entreprises ont un rôle déterminant sur le plan spatial, car ils constituent un élément essentiel de la dynamique de polarisation sur les plus grandes villes. L'hypothèse à la base de notre travail est que leurs comportements de…

Cette communication traite de l'attrait des zones d'activités économiques auprès des choix de localisation des entreprises au niveau intra-urbain. La poursuite de la concentration et de l'étalement des activités économiques ainsi que l'accroissement…

La politique gouvernementale de décentralisation, le déclin des vieilles régions industrielles, la crise et les politiques de redéploiement des entreprises ont produit une nouvelle géographie industrielle de la France. Les caractéristiques des…

Abstract of the introduction by Fabrizio Nevola : From late antiquity until the nineteenth century the Italian peninsula was made up of numerous states and city-states, governed as republics, or ruled by kings, dukes or popes. While diverse attempts…

The cultural economy of American cities emerged as an important topic in cultural policy at the end of the 21st Century, when cultural policy makers started to highlight the multifaceted dynamics of cultural activities and city officials started…