Publications by Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

Intermediate Cities

Jean-Claude Bolay, Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

Cities are defined mainly based on spatial and demographic criteria. The criteria of intermediation helps in identifying current urban dynamics, in relation to surrounding suburban/rural areas or in national and international environments. Medium‐sized cit ...

Wiley2019

De ville moyenne à ville intermédiaire : les dynamiques de Jacmel et son positionnement en Haïti

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

Even though the world’s population is nowadays essentially urban, the mediumsized cities have historically been disregarded by public policies and research due to numerous difficulties defining these “in-between towns”. This lack of definition is even more ...

2019

Crise et gouvernance : gouvernance urbaine dans un contexte de crise: trajectoires de villes intermédiaires haïtiennes après le séisme du 12 janvier 2010

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

On January 12 2010, Haiti was hit by an earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale. Close to 220,000 persons died, more than 300,000 were wounded and almost two other million were displaced. The earthquake¿s epicenter was actually several kilometers away the c ...

EPFL2017

Les villes ordinaires et le concept d’intermédiation : une théorie et un outil pour replacer les villes moyennes du Sud au centre du débat

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

2016

Medium-sized Haitian cities after the earthquake of 12 January 2010: an analysis of the urban governance from the perspective given by the Governance Analytical Framework GAF

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

The concept of governance is generally understood to be the creation of a structure or an order that results from the interaction of a multiplicity of governing mechanisms and actors influencing each other. The notion is increasingly criticized mainly beca ...

2015

Urban governance in earthquake struck medium-sized Haitian cities

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

This paper aims to provide an insight into the urban governance of four medium-sized Haitian cities hit by the earthquake of 2010, bearing in mind two affirmations of J. Pierre on urban governance; namely, that it is the better analytical model for the con ...

2015

La gouvernance des villes intermédiaires de pays en développement : le cas d’Haïti

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

2014

Urban Development and Technologies in a context of Globalisation: What Alternative Solutions for small and medium size Cities in Developing Countries?

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

2013

Intermediate cities: theoretical aspects and practical implication in China

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

2013

Participatory processes in urban development projects : methodological issues from a study case in Shanghai

Abigaïl-Laure Sarah Irène Kern

2012