The moral injunctions about beauty and order that attach to turn-of-the-twentieth-century urban reform and city planning derived from the era's concern with Domesticity and evangelicalism. Evangelical Protestant women believed they could protect…
This thesis examines the nature of Early Mediaeval trading and manufacturing settlements in Scandinavia, and in the Scandinavian-influenced area of England. Using previously unpublished material from the 1990-1995 excavations at Birka, in Sweden,…
The transition from deindustrial to post industrial city from the 1970s exposed how cities developed regeneration strategies as their traditional industrial base experienced terminal contraction. These strategies to re-make urban places positioned at…
The aim of the proposed study is to investigate the emerging process of residential segregation within metropolitan cities with specific reference to two case studies.
L'objet de cette thèse est d'analyser l'évolution de l'offre de logements spécifiques dans l'agglomération lyonnaise et de rechercher, dans les pratiques d'acteurs développées autour de cette "politique du sous-logement", des éléments d'appréciation…
This ethnography is based on fieldwork in two very different cities, Hong Kong and Sydney. It traces the movements of subjects from Hong Kong through the analysis of differing modes of inhabiting urban space. The texture of lived spaces provides an…
This research proposes to study spatial planning in a context of high social inequity. The analysis is focused on the possibilities that spatial planning has to attenuate conditions of inequity in urban development derived from urban growth process;…
The thesis deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain on the one hand, and on the other, with the replanning efforts undertaken in London and especially the redevelopment programme…
This dissertation examines the production and experience of class and racial distinctions in contemporary Mexico City by focusing on encounter and proximity between different social groups in the country's most emblematic urban center. It draws on…
The urban waterfront is in the spotlight. During the last decades harbour facilities have been moved away from urban centres. Projects for the recovery and restructuring of obsolete industrial areas by the water are sprawling all over the globe. The…
Cette recherche propose un modèle interactif de transport et d'urbanisation opérationnel comme outil d'aide à la planification des transports. La construction de ce modèle s'inscrit dans une volonté de dépasser la méthodologie classique des modèles…
La thèse porte sur le stationnement des voitures dans les quartiers mono-fonctionnels, à vocation essentiellement d’habitation. Seront étudiées en particulier, diverses formes urbaines (lotissements récents, tissu ancien dense et grands ensembles…
In Universe of the Mind, Yuri Lotman proposes that some cities are "eccentric". These eccentric cities do not clearly correspond to the nation in which they are located because of discrepancies in architecture, geography, or politics, thus pushing…
An urban growth model is conceptualized as a metropolitan change model consisting of multiple scales: global, regional and local. The baseline model operates in a free trade environment, in a space initially without consideration of the regulatory…
This study examines the reasons behind the decline in public transport patronage in Melbourne between 1950 and 1990, through a comparison with Toronto. The share of urban travel undertaken by public transport has declined since the Second World War…
Cette thèse est une réflexion géographique sur l'aménagement des deux grands parcs de la ville de Québec, le Parc des Champs-de-Bataille et le parc Victoria, ainsi que sur le développement de la ville au tournant du siècle dernier. Les raisons…
Ce travail de recherche porte sur l’analyse diachronique des rapports public-privé en aménagement urbain, autour de la question suivante : en quoi le partenariat public privé est-il révélateur de la métamorphose de la maîtrise d’ouvrage urbaine…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was America’s first great city, but it fell on especially hard times after the mid-1960s. The urban crisis became the catch-all name for these hard times across America. The confluence of race riots, suburbanization, urban…
Les réhabilitations sont ici considérées comme des opérations de transformation de la matérialité de l'espace habité, initiées et gérées par les organismes HLM et destinées à modifier les pratiques socio-spatiales des locataires. Ainsi analysées,…
Cette recherche doctorale porte sur la construction politique des agglomérations. A partir des expériences des fusions municipales québécoises impulsées par la réforme dite Harel, et des nouvelles communautés d'agglomération françaises instaurées par…
