Policy implications of regional autonomy for Indonesian cities
subject: regional autonomy, decentralisation, décentralisation, autonomie régionale, Indonesia, Indonesie, politique urbaine, politique de la ville, gouvernance, territoire, aménagement urbain, périphéries, Miller Michelle
description: Abstract from the distributor: Since 1999 when Indonesia initiated the world’s biggest experiment with democratic decentralization (or regional autonomy ) administrations as the primary unit of analysis without disaggregating these two distinct region types. In this seminar I will assess the policy implications of decentralization for the city (kota) as the primary administrative unit of enquiry. Not only do urban regions encounter different sorts of challenges and opportunities to rural areas, but cities cannot be neatly contained within the artificial boundaries of autonomous jurisdictions as extended urban spaces typically spill over into neighbouring administrations. The partitioning of urban and peri-urban regions has in turn produced a breakdown in the once centralized city networks for managing public service delivery and development projects. Indonesian cities can no longer rely upon industrial urban peripheries for income, many of which are adapting to autonomy to emerge as urban growth poles in their own right. This situation has compelled city administrations to rethink their responsibilities and the range of opportunities available to them, which has wider policy implications for governance and urban planning at the national level. Michelle Miller is a Research Fellow in the Asian Urbanisms Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
creator: Michelle Miller
date: 25 November 2010

Seno Gumira Ajidarma and the writing of urban space in Indonesia
subject: Jakarta, Indonesia, Indonésie, Ajidarma Seno Gumira, espace urbain, littérature, flâneur, flânerie, société urbaine, twentieth century, twenty-first century, vingtième siècle, vingt-et-unième siècle, Fuller Andy
description: Abstract from the distributor: This paper considers the work of one of Indonesia’s most prominent contemporary writers, Seno Gumira Ajidarma. In this paper, I look at how Seno’s writing over the last 30 years traces and documents changes in contemporary Indonesian urban societies – and particularly that of Jakarta. This paper considers the importance and relevance of the notion of the urban based flâneur and whether or not the flâneur and the practice of flânerie is part of literary imaginings in contemporary Indonesia. I ask whether or not to be a flâneur and to practice flânerie is a critical social act which questions formal constructions and usages of urban space. This paper looks at the ways in which the practices of listening, hearing, looking and writing are invoked in selected novels, short stories and essays of Seno Gumira Ajidarma. Andy Fuller completed his PhD at the University of Tasmania in 2010. He is currently based at Freedom Institute in Jakarta and is also working as a researcher at The University of Melbourne.
creator: Andy Fuller
date: 7 March 2011

The reporter, the flâneur, and the critic: The urbanist as outsider in the South Asian mega-city
subject: New Delhi, Mumbai, Bombay, urbanism, urbanisme, urbanist, urbaniste, mégapole, sociologie urbaine, Asie, Asia, Inde, India, culture urbaine, flâneur, Hogan Trevor
description: Abstract from the distributor: ‘No urbanism without urbanists’ might be a slogan that captures the European and North American urban experience over the past two centuries. Indeed, it is arguable that urbanism is not only an empirical description of material cultures of cities but is also a creative act of the inscriptions on the cities by writers themselves – from Ruskin, Baudelaire, and Geddes to Benjamin, Mumford and Hall, and from the Chicago School to Jacobs, Sennett and Davis. But where, when and who are the Asian urbanists? And is this question too late in an era of globalised megacities? Can we still write the city? Are they not too big, fast, splintered and complex to be encapsulated textually in their totality? Are we witnessing instead in the Asian-Pacific Century, urbanisms without urbanists? This paper looks at four contemporary urbanists and their writings on two key megacities of India – New Delhi and Mumbai, two megacities whose forms and lives are crucial to the next phase of India’s emergence as a global power. They are difficult cities in every sense – complex, explosive, dangerous, fluid and creative - and therefore ideal sites for understanding 21st century forms of urbanisms. Here I choose writers who are outsiders to the cities they write about: they are migrants and expatriates, but who also work from the margins of the social sciences of the academy. I attend to their authorship and their social and institutional settings; this in turn invites reflection on readerships, but more importantly about the types of authorship available to, and developed by, urbanists over the past two hundred years. The paper shifts to the texts themselves and reflects about forms of writing (genre, style, and rhetoric) as much as to what they have come to say about their cities. The paper concludes with some reflections on their arguments for a critical understanding of the contemporary South Asia mega-city by suggesting that indeed there is no urbanism without u…
creator: Trevor Hogan
date: 8 March 2011

La ville à l'état gazeux
subject: ville sensible, ville vulnérable, mobilité, sécurité, risque, densité urbaine, art dans la ville, ambiances
description: Présentation par le difuseur : Chaque matinée de la Ville à l’État Gazeux proposait des témoignages de chercheurs et d’acteurs urbains sur des sujets tout public. La ville sensible, grand thème des conférences, était évoquée à travers trois regards : le vulnérable, l’affectif, le créatif. Conférences disponibles : La ville vulnérable • La vulnérabilité comme condition de survie : la ville résiliente Marco Stathopoulos - Architecte, Paris • Habiter la pénurie : expériences et imaginaires de la ville Hélène Subrémon - Chercheur au Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Sociétés à l’Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Paris. • Tant va la ville à l’eau. La construction territoriale et politique de l’inondation Mathilde Gralepois - Maître de conférence en urbanisme, Université François Rabelais, Tours. • La catastrophe urbaine dans le cinéma Alfonso Pinto - Doctorant, Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris, Paris. La ville affective • Le rapport affectif à la ville Denis Martouzet - Professeur en urbanisme, Université François Rabelais, Tours. • Se mouvoir pour sentir la ville Damien Masson - Chercheur associé, Centre de Recherche sur l’Espace Sonore et l’Environnement Urbain (CRESSON), Grenoble. • Cartographie imaginative et sensible Anne Durand - Architecte-urbaniste, Paris. • Petits arrangements avec l’espace d’une cité HLM du Caire Bénédicte Florin - Maître de conférence en géographie, Université François Rabelais (CITERES), Tours. La ville créative • Les multiples facettes de la ville créative Elsa Vivant - Maître de conférences à l'Institut Français d'Urbansime, Paris. • L’invention est-elle au bout de la rue ? Frank Beau - Chercheur et consultant indépendant, Paris. • Ville malléable, Ville hybride Luc Gwiazdzinski - Enseignant-chercheur en urbanisme, Institut de Géographie Alpine, Grenoble.
creator: Multiples
date: Du 15 au 17 septembre 2011

The life and death of cities: Accounting for environmental and social sustainability
subject: , ville durable, développement durable, environnement urbain, changement climatique, cadre de vie, urbanité, James Paul
description: Abstract from the distributor: For all their vibrancy and liveliness, cities face a growing challenge of providing secure and sustainable places to live. Even the world’s most ‘liveable cities’—Vancouver, Melbourne, Helsinki etc.— are currently in world-historical terms utterly unsustainable. Unless we rethink the ways that we present sustainability to ourselves and learn to act differently, crisis will become a way of life. Paul James is Director of the Global Cities Institute (RMIT) and Director of the UN Global Compact—Cities Programme. He is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Globalism Research Centre, and on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies.
creator: Paul James
date: 30 April 2009

Ethnologie sonore de 5 ports européens : l'appel du port
subject: ambiances, identité sonore, ville portuaire, Anvers, Brest, Barcelone, Gênes, Marseille
description: Présentation par le diffuseur : Recherche exploratoire sur les caractéristiques acoustiques, la dimension et l'identité sonores de cinq grands ports européens - Anvers, Brest, Barcelone, Gênes, Marseille - à travers l'observation ethnographique et l'analyse des représentations que s'en font ses usagers et ses riverains. Il comporte deux parties complémentaires : La première est un fichier de 50 "cartes d’identité sonore", petites monographies ethnographiques correspondant aux terrains et situations sonores qui ont été spécialement étudiés dans chaque ville avec plusieurs types d’outils ; une place importante y est donnée à l’expression habitante. La seconde est constituée par un ensemble de constats et de propositions sur les thèmes suivants : - les caractéristiques acoustiques générales des grands ports européens ; - les résultats de l’analyse ethnographique pluridisciplinaire ; - l’identité sonore du port. Cet ouvrage est accompagné par un disque compact qui réunit les 50 fragments étudiés de façon détaillée et mis en "cartes d’identité sonore". Dans l’idéal, la lecture du rapport et l’audition des fragments doivent alterner, pour qu’elles puissent s’illustrer mutuellement.
creator: Jean-Luc Bardyn
date: 1993
format: 1h17'

From critical urban theory to the right to the city
subject: , droit à la ville, mouvement social, Lefebvre Henri, Marcuse Peter
description: Alternative link to the recordings on iTunes.
creator: Peter Marcuse
date: 6 October 2009

The future of urban studies: UCL Urban Laboratory annual lecture 2010
subject: tudes urbaines, urban studies, culture urbaine, politique de la ville, pays en développement, religion, Gandy Matthew, Le Galès Patrick, Schlör Joachim, Robinson Jennifer
description: Abstract from the distributor: The presentations and discussion explored recent developments in urban studies ranging across topics such as emerging conceptions of urban politics, new approaches to the interpretation of urban culture, and conceptual linkages between the global North and the global South. Matthew Gandy is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCL and Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. Patrick Le Galès is Professor of Politics and Sociology at Sciences Po Paris. Joachim Schlör is the Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton. Jennifer Robinson is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCL.
creator: Matthew Gandy, Patrick Le Galès, Joachim Schlör, Jennifer Robinson
date: 8 June 2010

Mémoires de quartiers, mémoires de migration
subject: , mémoire, immigration, bidonville, politique publique, Cohen Muriel, Bertheleu Hélène
description: Présentation par le diffuseur : Conférence d'Hélène Bertheleu, sociologue, maître de conférences à l'Université de Tours et Muriel Cohen, doctorante en histoire, Université Paris-1, introduite par Marianne Amar, responsable de la recherche à la Cité et animée par Laure Pitti, maître de conférence en sociologie Université Paris 8. La mémoire de l’immigration n’existe pas. Diverses, complexes, les mémoires des migrations se construisent et se reconstruisent selon les époques, les générations et les espaces. Les circulations de la mémoire interrogent d’abord l’articulation entre espaces public et privé. Mais elles posent aussi la question du jeu d’échelles entre territoires, du quartier aux espaces transnationaux, et les échanges qui s’opèrent de l’un à l’autre, jusqu’à dessiner un espace de la mobilité. C’est le quartier qui servira de fil conducteur à cette exploration des mémoires de migration, avec deux auteurs du numéro "Mémoires de quartiers, mémoires de migration", publié par la revue Diasporas. Histoire et société. Dans un premier temps, Muriel Cohen évoquera les bidonvilles de Nanterre, entre "trop plein" de mémoire et silences. Longtemps, ils ont incarné le mal-logement des immigrés, avant de s’imposer comme le lieu martyr de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961. Mais aujourd’hui, dans la ville même, tandis que la mémoire de la guerre d'Algérie est mise en avant, celle des bidonvilles reste dans l’ombre. Dans un second temps, Hélène Bertheleu réfléchira sur la place des migrations dans le développement actuel des mémoires urbaines. Souvent, l’histoire des migrants s’efface devant la mémoire du quartier, laissant dans l’invisibilité la diversité des motifs de la migration et les appartenances transnationales. Les contextes locaux, les politiques publiques jouent ici un rôle décisif, une manière de rappeler que la construction des mémoires résulte aussi d’un rapport de force.
creator: Hélène Bertheleu, Muriel Cohen
date: 10 février 2011
format: 1h50

Histoires de villes
subject: Tokyo, Shanghai, Dublin, Londres, Bruxelles, Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires, littérature, représentations
creator: Marco Calamandrei
date: Du 26 juillet au 20 août 2010
format: Emission d'1 heure

Diversity in the city: What are our limits?
subject: diversity, diversité, mixité sociale, multiculturalism, multiculturalisme, urbanité, espace public, immigration, lien social, interaction sociale, intégration, Australia, Australie, Fincher Ruth
description: Transcribed excerpt from Professor Fincher's lecture: Today I'll be mentioning a number of different kinds of diversity... and asking the general question, what are our limits in allowing them their expression in the city? I'll be drawing on some of my own recent work, and on the work of lots of colleagues, to make the argument that though we in Australia are well-schooled in the discourses of things like multi-culturalism that value and acknowledge diversity, there is some evidence in our cities that we, some of us, are not very good, in fact, at accommodating or encouraging, and sometimes even tolerating, some differences. And that sometimes visible difference has become tied up with fear, notions of risk, and disorder. Ruth Fincher is Chair in Geography at The University of Melbourne. Alternative link to the recording via Radio Adelaide (scroll down or search to locate mp3 link).
creator: Ruth Fincher
date: 10 July 2009

Exploring everyday urban imaginaries in the multicultural competitive city
subject: , imaginaire, mixité sociale, multicultural, multiculturel, immigration, marketing, diversity, diversité, Toronto, ethnicity, ethnicité, Liguori Marilena, urbanité
description: Abstract from the distributor: Marilena Liguori's dissertation focuses on multiculturalism and ethnocultural diversity in Toronto and seeks to explore the everyday lived experiences of recent immigrants. This work examines the role of urban imaginaries in entrepreneurial city marketing strategies in relation to the consolidation of the competitive city, which involve representations of 'diversity without difference' or the commodification of ethnocultural diversity. Marilena Liguori is a PhD candidate in urban studies at the Centre for Urbanization, Culture and Society, The National Institute for Scientific Research, Canada.
creator: Marilena Liguori
date: 7 December 2010

Les espaces ouverts sont-ils l’avenir du Grand Paris ?
subject: Grand Paris, espace ouvert
description: Présentation par le diffuseur : Débats : • Quelles réponses apportent-ils aux défis du XXIème siècle ? Avec Jean-Michel Morer, Maire de Trilport ; Christophe Hilairet, agriculteur, Président de la Chambre d’Agriculture d’Île-de-France ; Christian Thibault, directeur du département environnement urbain et rural, Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme d’Île-de-France et Frédéric Bonnet, architecte, Atelier Obras • Nouvelles pratiques, nouveaux acteurs : pour quelles richesses ? Avec Michel Bourgain, Maire de l’Île-saint-Denis, Vice-président de Plaine Commune, Vice-président de l’Association des Maires de France ; Eddie Aït, Maire de Carrièressous-Poissy, Conseiller régional d’Île-de-France, Vice-Président de la Communauté d’agglomération des Deux Rives de Seine, membre du bureau de Paris Métropole ; Olivier Thomas, Président de l’Agence des Espaces Verts, Maire de Marcoussis et Philippe Maingault, Président, Planète Lilas • Développement du Grand Paris sur les espaces ouverts Avec Thierry Laverne, paysagiste directeur de l’Agence Laverne, élu à Marcoussis, Président du Triangle Vert ; Mireille Ferri, Directrice du Syndicat intercommunal de la plaine de Montjean, Conseillère régionale d’Île-de-France et Jean-Yves Chapuis, Vice-président de Rennes Métropole délégué aux formes urbaines.
date: 30 juin 2011
format: 2 x 1H

Quelles stratégies et quels outils pour intensifier le grand Paris ?
subject: , Grand Paris, stratégie, urbanisme, intensité, habitants
description: Présentation par le diffuseur : Débats : • Du règlement à l’urbanisme opérationnel : quelles marges de négociation ? Avec Eric Seynave, Maire-adjoint chargé de l’aménagement du territoire de la Ville de Saint-Cloud ; Christian Curé, directeur adjoint Développement durable, Direction régionale et interdépartementale de l’équipement et de l’aménagement ; Stéphanie Dupuy-Lyon, adjointe à la sous-direction de l’aménagement durable, Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement et Olivier Waintraub, directeur du Développement régional d’île-de-France, Nexity • Le paradigme de l’intensité : quels nouveaux équilibres ? Avec Corinne valls, Maire de Romainville, Vice-présidente du Conseil général de Seine-Saint-Denis ; Sabri Bendimérad, architecte urbaniste, équipe Winy Maas, MVRDV avec ACS et AAF, Conseil scientifique de l’AIGP ; Catherine Barbé, directrice de l’aménagement et de l’urbanisme, Société du Grand Paris ; Vincent Fouchier, directeur général adjoint, Institut d’aménagement et d’urbanisme d’Île-de-France et Pierre Paulot, directeur de l’architecture et de l’environnement du groupe immobilier I3F • Les temps de la pédagogie : quels partages avec l’habitant ? Avec Jean-Yves Le Bouillonnec, Député-Maire de Cachan, 1er Vice-président de Paris Métropole ; Philippe Laurent, Maire de Sceaux ; François Garay, Maire des Mureaux et Guy Challier, Maire-adjoint chargé de l’aménagement urbain de la Ville d’Aulnay-sous-Bois.
date: 16 juin 2011
format: 3 x 1H

Paris pas perdus
subject: Paris, Hazan Eric
description: Un reportage diffusé dans Là bas si j'y suis de Daniel Mermet Pour nous consoler de la rentrée, une balade dans les rues de Paris avec Eric Hazan "expert en déambulation érudite" et pour qui ce Paris qui s’étend, est encore ce qu’il a été pendant deux siècles : le champ de bataille de la guerre civile en France. Ecoute et Podcast : Comme pour toutes les émissions de France Inter, les émissions de Là-bas si j'y suis peuvent être écoutées sur son site jusqu'à la diffusion de la prochaine émission. Heureusement, le site non officiel de Là-bas si j'y suis, www.la-bas.org , conserve et offre à tous les enregistrements de toutes les émissions de Daniel Mermet sous tous les formats audios possibles. Il propose également un service de podcast de Là-bas si j'y suis. Merci aux animateurs de ce site !
creator: , Charlotte Perry Eric Hazan, Daniel Mermet
date: 2011

The challenges of the twenty-first century city
subject: , gouvernance, politique urbaine, droit à la ville, développement urbain, développement durable, étalement urbain, gestion locale, twenty-first century, vingtième siècle, Ruble Blair, urbanité
description: Organisers' description : Cities are becoming larger, more diverse, more fluid, and less manageable than in the past. Beyond the obvious issues of infrastructure management, transportation, telecommunications, poverty, health care, migration, and education, custodians of the urban future face unprecedented challenges both from the sheer number of human beings in global urban centers and their complex needs. Furthermore, this new reality is set against a backdrop of expanding international terrorism, a neo-liberal consensus that has counseled against governments accepting responsibility for alleviating social problems, and technological changes that are restructuring everyday life. This talk will address a variety of pertinent policy-making considerations that confront the fluidity and complexity of urban life, from ideas of the “right to the city” and humane civitas to the interrelated pragmatism found in arguments regarding sprawl and urban social sustainability. Blair Ruble is Director of the Kennan Institute and Chair of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
creator: Blair Ruble
date: 14 April 2010

London and other Great American Cities 50 years on
subject: Jacobs Jane, London, Londres, aménagement urbain, The death and life of great American cities, Power Anne, Hall Peter, Greenhalgh Stephen, Rogers Ben, renouvellement urbain, forme urbaine
description: Abstract from the distributor : The RSA and the Centre for London at Demos gather a panel of expert commentators at the RSA to mark the 50th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’ landmark book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jane Jacobs’ book, first published in 1961, transformed the way we think about our cities and helped discredit the then near universal belief in slum clearance, high rise housing projects and urban motorways. Building on close observation of her own Greenwich Village neighbourhood, Jacobs mounted a thorough and original defence of 'traditional' city forms against the dominant approaches to urban planning in her day, including the 'garden city' movement and Modernist city planning. She argued that dense, mixed income mix-used neighbourhoods, designed around short city blocks with busy amenity-lined streets and small parks, had a huge range of benefits unappreciated by modern urban planners who mistakenly associated the old city with all the evils of the 19th century slum. Jacobs claimed that cities could be great engines of cohesion, innovation, and prosperity, but only where they were properly led and managed. But has her thinking stood the test of time? What did she get right and what wrong? And in particular what are the implications of her insights for London, the UK's largest, and most unequal city? Anne Power is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Peter Hall is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at UCL. Stephen Greenhalgh is Leader of the Council, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Ben Rogers is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos.
creator: Anne Power, Peter Hall, Stephen Greenhalgh, Ben Rogers
date: 17 May 2011

Arrival city : How migration is reshaping our world
subject: , migration urbaine, immigration, migrant, économie, société urbaine, intégration, Saunders Douglas, Keith Michael
description: NB : A video is also available, but only covers 28 minutes of Saunders' talk and that of Michael Keith, the respondent. The audio file covers the question and answer session that follows.
creator: Douglas Saunders, Michael Keith
date: 31 May 2011

Ideas of the metropolis : Anglo American conference of historians 2009
subject: , métropole, culture urbaine, identité, status, prestige, histoire urbaine, Keene Derek
description: This lecture was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life. 2011 paper of the same name (a revised version of this lecture) : This article reviews uses of the term ‘metropolis’ to denote cities of a distinctive character, principally from the first to the late twentieth century A.D. ‘Metropolis’ is a ‘significant word’ with special resonance and power. Urban historians will profit from giving its uses careful attention. Those uses reveal, in particular contexts, ideas and ambitions concerning the status, authority and identity of both cities and peoples. They are often vague, rhetorical or boosterish, but just as often their precision adds to our understanding of contemporary thought. Often the term relates to a concern with the past or the future, or to senses of transience or regret. Equally significant are those cases where important cities were not described as metropolises, although occasionally modern historians have come to believe mistakenly that they were. Phases in the use of the term can be identified, especially in the nineteenth and early twentieth century when London became an influential model. In recent decades social scientists and bureaucrats have abused the term, but in some contexts ‘metropolis’ still has cultural and political power. NB : This recording may be streamed via your web browser or opened in iTunes. See also recordings of the other conference sessions: What is a city? The English experience Cities and peripheries Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990 Imagining low life before the East End's …
creator: Derek Keene
date: 2 July 2009

What is a city? The English experience : Anglo American conference of historians 2009
subject: England, Angleterre, histoire urbaine, city, town, ville, grande ville, Beckett John
description: This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life. Paper abstract from the organisers : This paper will present an overview, concluding that England has two leagues of cities: a largely medieval league of what are now small cathedral towns; and a post-Victorian league which now includes more or less all the great ‘towns’. The paper explains how this came about, and asks what it means for our understanding of the English city. John Beckett is Professor of English Regional History at The University of Nottingham. NB : This recording may be streamed via your web browser or opened in iTunes. See also recordings of the other conference sessions: Ideas of the metropolis Cities and peripheries Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990 Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s Multicultural London: Past, present and future. A history and policy discussion
creator: John Beckett
date: 2 July 2009