This thesis is an investigation of sociological, documentary and literary texts whose central concerns are the social conditions in London during the period 1880-1899. London is chosen as a focus because during this time it was perceived as being in…
Die These einer globalen Urbanisierung beansprucht bei Lefèbvre eine umfassende geistige Konfrontation, die im Übergang von ruralen zu urbanen Strukturen zentrale Elemente von gesellschaftspolitischer und philosophischer Relevanz aufzeigt. Von der…
The image of the destruction of the city has a long history, and resonates disturbingly with current events. It seems to question the very possibility of creating an architecture – that is, of giving the world a form and thereby a meaning. This…
Iraq has a stock of buildings, particularly dwellings, many of which are neither physically fit nor capable of meeting the economic and social needs of today. Many people, particularly in the cities, live in overcrowded and insanitary conditions.…
Currently change in cities is accelerating intricately and diversely because of technological advances, information floods, increased openness, and the rising standard of living. While city development depended on the activation of urban marketing, a…
The introduction to this thesis sets forward its aims which are to account for the present morphological features of Tehran and Isfahan and to examine in detail the characteristic features of Persian towns. It goes on to examine the sources for such…
Cette thèse emprunte la perspective de la recherche d'un autre développement pour examiner l'action des groupes de l'espace non institutionnel au centre urbain de Chicoutimi. Avec comme toile de fond la dévitalisation des quartiers centraux de…
This dissertation examines the growth of tourism as a strategy for downtown renewal in the postwar American city. In the years after World War II, American cities declined precipitously as residents and businesses relocated to rapidly-expanding…
In the 1990s, the Chinese housing reform reached a pivotal moment. The dismantling of the old public housing system and the high price of the commercial housing left the housing needs of a large number of the population unresolved. In 1998, a new…
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 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…
Quelles sont les mutations sociales qui s'opèrent dans les localités en transition entre le rural et l'urbain ? Comment peut-on les saisir ? Quel est l'impact de ces mutations sur le processus de développement local ? Ces interrogations, qui…
This thesis was motivated by an interest in the phenomenon commonly labelled as ‘new regionalism’ and in how ‘new regionalism’ underwent a change as attention turned to cities and city-regions from around the year 2000. The main objective of this…
This thesis addresses a problem affecting places of heritage throughout the world as represented by the case of al-Balad, the historical centre of Amman in Jordan: despite the increasing efforts expended on the conservation of built heritage, most…
La prévision de la mobilité urbaine à long terme est un des grands défis de la planification des transports urbains. L’utilisation de l’approche démographique et l’emploi d’enquêtes répétitives permettent de rendre compte de la dynamique du…
Dans un contexte caractérisé globalement par une sollicitation générale de l'aménagement spatial, nous nous sommes données comme objectif premier de comprendre quelle est la nature des liens étroits existant entre le retour en force du design urbain…
The motivation for this research is a perceived gap in knowledge regarding the complex relationships between the physical form of the urban environment; its environmental performance as expressed through stocks and flows of materials and energy…
It is estimated that there are currently 3.9 million people living in urban poverty in Thailand, without the existence of an effective social assistance safety-net. This thesis presents an analysis of Thai governments’ urban poverty alleviation…
How is Globalisation changing the form and spatial structure of cities today? Deceptively simple, this question presents us with a number of methodological challenges and unanswered theoretical problems. What is globalization? Can we define a series…
Se analiza la localización de los conjuntos de vivienda social el interior del Área Metropolitana de Santiago. Se generan procedimientos apoyados en Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) con el fin de determinar posibles zonas que presenten algún…
