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From the preface : Frontiers and Identities: Cities in Regions and Nations, edited by Professors Luďa Klusáková and Laure Teulières, is the third volume published by the Thematic Work Group 5 of the pan-European Network of…

Si en Irlande du Nord les frontières subsistent, il n’en demeure pas moins qu’elles sont soumises à des forces de changement qui tendent à se heurter aux crispations héritées du conflit. Ainsi, dans les grandes villes, l’évolution démographique…

A partir de l'identification de plusieurs frontières de l'espace djiboutien (auparavant Côte française des Somalis, puis Territoire français des Afars et des Issas), nous revisitons l'histoire coloniale de Djibouti sous l'angle de la fabrication des…

Un voyage fiction sous la plume de Thomas Clerc et une analyse historique et contemporaine de Lionel Engrand sur le site du Front de Seine, l’un des programmes de rénovation urbaine les plus ambitieux et controversés du Paris des Trente Glorieuses.…

This essay proposes a approach to the city as Identifiable Socio-Spatial Object (ISSO). I postulate that the city can be considered an object because it possesses its own materialness, an exteriority in relation to the human observer. It is a social…

Alan Walks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto

The question of complexity and its increasing application to social sciences is challenging the modelling of spatial systems. New concepts and new methods have been proposed and invite to reformulate classical modelling frames. This approach is…

Metropolitan governance concerns rise in Latin America following a period of decentralization, promotion of democracy in most countries of the region, and promotion of local powers from the 1970. I will use governance as an analytical category, and…

In Mauritania, new exchanges and connections entail important spatial and identity changes. As the prospective future physiognomy of the capital city Nouakchott shows, the modern insertion of Mauritania into the global economy has a critical impact…

Historical research has provided scholars with a strong foundation for understanding the sport-city nexus in American culture. These studies have focused primarily on two distinct eras. The first links the rise of modern sporting and leisure…

Abstract from the publisher : Youngtown, Arizona, opened in 1954 and was the first development community to have a minimum age requirement (then 65) and to ban underage children as permanent residents. Developer Del Webb unveiled Sun City six years…

Perception is central to the theory of ambience. Far from being one of many fields of research, perception is present throughout work inspired by ambience-oriented thinking. What models of intelligibility of perception can be used to pinpoint and…

This paper reviews the role of producer services in the scientific debate on metropolisation processes and discusses the different types of agglomeration economies. Based on the critical appraisal of sectoral based approaches, it develops a more…

Bruno Notteboom, Du monument au paysage et retour  : la photographie dans le Bulletin du Touring Club de Belgique au xxe siècle L’article examine comment les publications belges liées au tourisme, notamment le Bulletin du Touring Club de Belgique,…

A city is more than a physical imprint. Through its architecture and human use of urban space, it is an extension of its residents, an expression of their culture.

This investigation is situated within the domain of urban historical geography,…

Between the beginning of the 1990s and 2003, the housing policy has shifted from "housing for all" to a more comprehensive, rationalized and complex urban strategy. The RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme) housing strategy favoured…

This article focuses on the water distribution network in Paris, from the 1830s, when most Parisians got their water from public fountains, and private wells, to the 1930s, by which time almost all of the capital's inhabitants had been connected to…

Abstract from the publisher: The history of Jerusalem as traditionally depicted is the quintessential history of conflict and strife, of ethnic tension, and of incompatible national narratives and visions. It is also a history of dramatic changes…

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This thesis deals with the theory and practice of city marketing. It describes the transition from city marketing to city branding by identifying the roots of city marketing in general marketing theory, by adapting the concept of corporate-level…