The extension of urban space has been a world wide process during the last fifty years, certainly linked with the rapid diffusion of technologies, especially individual transportation modes, and with globalisation of many economic and cultural…
This paper presents a spatially explicit model to examine the importance of agricultural amenities as a determinant of the urban and suburban spatial structure. By introducing endogenous agricultural amenities into the classical monocentric model, we…
The presented research work within AMBIOFLUX project aims to model the ambient soundscape system onto an urban pedestrian pathway using GIS spatial dynamical mapping. Pathway's acoustic fingerprints are discreetly built through informational…
It has been too long that the question of the municipal solid waste management in developing cities has had the replication of Northern operating devices as the only valued answer. Countless failed projects and 'white elephants' have followed.…
This chapter is at first an attempt to identify the sources of complexity in the urban realm. A second step is to present various modelling approaches referring to the new paradigm of complexity, from a review of the literature in urban geography,…
La créativité urbaine et territoriale est souvent associée à une dimension artistique, aux industries créatives, à des lieux porteurs de transformations urbaines. Dans ce contexte, la récente institutionnalisation de la dimension artistique par les…
This paper reflects the work achieved for demonstrating the potentialities of Earth Observation data for the knowledge of the atmospheric pollutants concentration fields over metropolitan areas. The interaction of several scales of pollutant…
Influence of urban forms on pollutants distribution is presently investigated in urban atmospheric pollution researches. This multi-scale problem is generally studied on a single sclae (local, meso or global) but seldom considering the total effect…
The aim of this paper is to analyse metabolic interaction between Paris and the Seine during the industrial era, 1790-1970, a period marked by strong population growth, technological changes, and the absence of specific legislation on environmental…
This paper presents the main issues related to the financing of urban logistics solutions, more precisely to the contribution of economic analysis on strategic decision support related for urban logistics financing, focusing on cost benefit analysis.…
Collaborative transportation and logistics pooling are relatively new concepts in research, but are very popular in practice. In the last years, collaborative transportation seems a good city logistics alternative to classical urban consolidation…
In France, a strong control has been traditionally exerted over land-use. However, in the early 1980s, land markets shifted progressively from an administratively controlled regime to a more market-oriented economy. A bubble emerged in the Paris…
Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed…
What do we know about urbanisation in Africa? The classification systems of urban/rural areas differ from one country to another. As a consequence, international comparisons of urbanisation indicators or historical analyses of urban growth are…
Implementation of governance principles entails intra-urban territorializations in sub- Saharan African cities, which increase the risks of fragmentation and raise the question of local scale regulation in both its political and spatial dimensions.
The present South African city form is a hybrid product of the colonial and formal apartheid discourse which ordained urban spaces as the domain of the white race. As the democratic initiatives of the 1990s gained momentum various strategies were…
This chapter aims to be a guide for researchers and practitioners on choosing the most suitable approach to deal with a target or goal in terms of urban goods public decision support, and to integrate them into transport plans. First, an overview of…
Urban goods transport is one of the subjects decision makers have to take into account in the planning process. As they lack knowledge on this particular subject, they tend to underestimate the importance of urban goods movements on their territory.…
With the increase of power of the local authorities, especially with regards to movement of urban goods, we decided to focus on the manner in which local authorities in the area of Brittany planned the implementation of regulations and…
L'objectif de la communication est d'identifier les différenciations faites par les piétons dans leur décision de traversée dans différents environnements urbains et d'identifier les indices prélevés dans l'environnement, utilisés par les piétons…
