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Boundaries and Urban Worlds. The Contested Ethnoscape of Expatriates in Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Hossam Adly El Shentenawy

After having for long time been neglected by social anthropologists, cities are nowadays central in numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themse ...

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The Compact City: Sustainable, or Just Sustaining the Economy? Harry Gugger and Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer

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30 specialists from around the world challenge the question of (higher) costs related to sustainability of the built environment. The Economy of Sustainable Construction is a publication inspired by the 4th International Holcim Forum and examines how susta ...

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Density Introduction: Revisiting the Compact City

Harry Gugger, Gwendolin Kerschbaumer

30 specialists from around the world challenge the question of (higher) costs related to sustainability of the built environment The Economy of Sustainable Construction is a publication inspired by the 4th International Holcim Forum and examines how sustai ...

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Planification urbaine et usages des quartiers précaires en Afrique

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Since 2000, declarations issued in rapid succession by the international community have aimed at setting goals to drastically improve the living conditions of slum dwellers while, in the same time, the slums dwellers increased by 4,5% per year in Africa. S ...

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Tabriz - La mixité programmatique dans le contexte d'une ville islamique (Iran)

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Dramatic growth of urban populations in the developing countries is being a challenging issue in the upcoming decades. Tabriz is one of those megacities in the northwest of Iran with a rapid rate of development and modernization. As a consequence an urban- ...

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Entre ville et campagne

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Environmental, social and economic concerns linked to the sustainable development of the built-up environment are increasingly calling into question models of territorial development based on urban sprawl. This is because the process of dispersed urbanizat ...

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Practicing the world, practicing the city - Urban explorations in Beijing

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Since the beginning of the reforms three decades ago, Beijing has progressively become more urban and more global. With the economic reforms and the gaige kaifang (the opening of the country), the city has been steadily growing in both size and population ...

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Densité et logement collectif

Nicolas Bassand

As a measurement, built density (coefficient of land surface to be built and total floor space) has been the object of numerous researches on urban morphology and architectural forms during the twentieth century. However, for the last ten years, its sensor ...

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City Profile Nouakchott

Vincent Kaufmann, Jérôme Chenal

Created ex nihilo prior to independence (1958), Nouakchott is both a city of uncontrolled urban growth (especially given the combined influence of the end of nomadic life and the great draughts) and the seat of all trappings of power, designed to symbolise ...

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Towards an evolutionary model of city sustainability

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Darren Robinson, Adil Rasheed, Nataliya Filchakova

In part stimulated by the computer game industry, reasonable progress has been made in the dynamic modelling of urban growth and land use change. However, sustainability considerations in this work remain to be addressed. Yet the environmental impact of ci ...

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