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Neighbourhoods faced with suprametropolitan Mobility

In the «newly developing town» the increase in urban mobility does not imply the death of the local community. The results of an in-depth questionnaire proposed to 1697 households in various old…

Illegal Immigrants, the formal Economy, and precarious Housing : Vectors and Limitations on the Mobility of Foreigners in Italy.

Italy has only recently become a destination for immigrants, but it already occupies a particular position in the…

Population Densities : Introduction to a Geography of eastern Africa ?

The high demographic growth rate which strikes East Africa does not alter the major patterns of the population distribution nor the density geography in the region. However,…

Mobility, interactive social Systems and territorial Dynamics.

In this article, the author puts the very notion of mobility once more into question for himself. Rather than approaching the subject from the view-point of different social origins, or…

Young Children Welfare. Facilities Concentration and Differences in Access to Family Care Services.

With the family breakdown and the rising number of working women there is now a whole new set of daily organization with direct consequences for…

Croissance urbaine et modèles migratoires à Prague au temps du communisme et dans la période de transition

Cet article présente le rôle des migrations dans le développement de l'agglomération pragoise depuis la fin du XIXe siècle en insistant sur…

Présentation par l'éditeur : Ce livre est destiné aux flâneurs. Son ambition est de faire entrer dans leur champ de vision les traces laissées, dans notre paysage urbain, par la "comédie urbaine" :…

New Form of Migration to tourist Regions in Reconversion.

Since about ten years ago, Walloonia has been confronted with a new form of migration. The new migrants leave city centres to live permanently in tourist regions, situated in rural land. For…

La mobilité occupe un rôle essentiel dans la forme urbaine. Elle constitue une action centrale dans le développement urbain. Les modes motorisés correspondent à l'essentiel de la demande de mobilité, les ménages privilégiant la voiture au détriment…

Demographic Dynamics and geographical Patterns of African Populations.

Whereas Latin American and Asian demographic transitions are well advanced, differences between African sub-regions remain important.
This paper assesses changes in the trends…

Effects of the Population Ageing on Tourism Patterns in France.

Ageing of the population, change in lifestyles of the elderly citizens, the tourism operators will be strongly affected by these long term socio-demographic evolutions. Retired persons…

The increased capacity of households to allocate their time in several places as a result of both the growth of new flexible forms of work and a more mobile retirement lifestyle has contributed to a renewed interest in second homeownership all over…

Emigration has been a longstanding feature of human activity for a number of reasons, including environmental, social, economic, political and security causes. The creation of diasporas has been one result of such movements of people. Increasingly in…