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On August 29, 2005, a large tropical cyclone, named Hurricane Katrina, made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Despite following a track that mostly missed New Orleans, Katrina drowned this city by causing the failure of a protective…

L'implantation géographique des structures d'activité des huissiers de justice induit-elle une différenciation des pratiques professionnelles ? En d'autres termes, huissiers des campagnes et huissiers des villes exercent-ils différemment ? À…

While the geographical and economic factors concerning the development of hub ports are widely described by a variety of scholars and professionals, there is no recognized methodology measuring the hub dependence of a given port, region, or country.…

We study how political boundaries and fiscal competition interact with the labor and land markets to determine the economic structure and performance of metropolitan areas. Contrary to general belief, institutional fragmentation need not be…

The surveys specifically focused on the thorough knowledge of urban freight transport appeared about ten years ago. The local problematic of goods transport at local level was partially taken into account by the city planners and by the researchers:…

See also the Collections Portal of the Museum of the City of New York, where more than 1400 photographs taken by Riis are available to view online. See also a LibriVox audio recording of the book. Alternative link to a different full-text version…

This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to estimate a factor augmented productivity equation. We exploit the panel dimension of our data and distinguish individual-specic and time-specic factors. On the basis of 14 technology and infrastructure…

Abstract from the distributor: City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be dynamic, innovative and flexible spaces, never finished but always…

The spatial distribution of elderly persons in S.W. England will be discussed, with special reference to the South Hams District of Devon. Housing problems presented by the very high concentration of the elderly in this area, in particular those aged…

La réforme du logement en Chine vise à introduire des mécanismes de marché dans un système naguère dominé par l’attribution des logements par l’État. Le système du logement dans la Chine urbaine en transition combine aujourd’hui les caractéristiques…

In order to explain the spatial inequalities in unemployment-to-work transitions in the Paris area, we use an exhaustive administrative data set from the French National Employment Agency (Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi). We find strong local…

Controlling for country fixed effects, there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between the degree of housing market regulation (HMR) and the strictness of employment protection legislation (EPL) in OECD countries. We provide a…

Se fondant sur des enquêtes auprès des ménages de la ville de Guangzhou (Canton) menées en 1996 et 2005, cet article examine les changements dans l’étendue et la nature de l’inégalité face au logement en Chine, suite à la cessation des allocations de…

Une livraison de la revue European Journal of Homelessness (Volume 8, Issue 1 - 2014).

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At the eighth annual European Research Conference on Homelessness, held in the Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin on 20th September…

Abstract from the publisher: Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation, and even…

In this paper, we study the mobility and housing choices of the elderly when retiring using household data collected in France. From a theoretical viewpoint, retirees are likely to decrease their housing quantity because of an income loss when…

Les ménages dans la phase de réduction : mobilité résidentielle et consommation de logement.
La littérature sur la mobilité résidentielle nous montre que les familles qui déménagent cherchent un logement en « équilibre » avec la structure de la…

The change in households in Denmark towards more and smaller households is attributable to a combination of changes in the family pattern and in the age composition of the population. The change in the family pattern can mainly be ascribed to the…