Ce rapport est articulé autour de quatre chapitres. Le premier chapitre précise le questionnement en matière de lien entre polycentrisme et migrations alternantes. Dans le second chapitre, sont présentées les trois aires urbaines et leurs polarités,…
On étudie dans cette communication les fortifications de la fin de l'époque ibérique dans deux secteurs du Bas Aragon: l'embouchure du Regallo, à Caspe (sites de La Tallada et de Palermo I), et la moyenne vallée du Matarraña, entre Calaceite et…
Amman est une ville de création récente ; sa croissance est due à son choix comme capitale d'un Etat neuf, et à l'affluc de réfugiés palestiniens. C'est aujourd'hui une ville qui regroupe plus de la moitié des habitants du pays et concentre…
Nous nous proposons l'essai d'une approche inversée dans l'étude de la présence étrangère en Argentine, basée sur des biographies à partir desquelles l'élargissement du champ d'investigation nous ferait découvrir des traits plus généraux. Elle…
The aim of every politician is to transform the city into an environmentally sustainable entity. However, while the planning and organisation of passenger services within cities is commonly perceived as a major issue, freight transport is not given…
This deliverable contains the cost-benefit analysis results (CBA) for the piloted services in order to feed the Business Model discussions. First, a brief description of the method and the main hypotheses are shown. Then, each single system is…
This study is based on the fringe-belt model, tested on Nantes and Rennes (France). The model stresses the alternance of high and low density zones (fringe belts). Formerly at the edge of the built-up area, they are now embedded within it. Their…
Most of the studies on refugees establish a clear difference between refugees in camps and urban refugees living in cities. The Palestinian case, due to its exceptional duration and the context of rapid urbanization of their host countries, invites…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This paper is an empirical attempt to measure the relative concentration of port-city functions in the context of globalisation. It reviews a number of urban and port issues regarding their complementary and contradictory aspects about the evolution…
L'objectif de cette communication est de présenter une nouvelle méthode permettant la production d'images à haute résolution spatiale, réunissant les qualités de la haute résolution spatiale et de la haute résolution spectrale des satellites…
