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Comprendre la construction des périphéries urbaines à Lomé et Yaoundé

Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda

Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa is mainly marked by an extremely high speed. For a couple of decades, it has become more and more difficult to study and control the urbanization processes using the available means due to their rapidity. These conditions ...

EPFL2020

Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Emanuele Massaro

Our world is becoming more and more urban. Already, about 50% of the population lives in cities posing new challenges for sustainable development. What does sustainability mean in the context of living in a city? This book provides guidelines for sustainab ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Brussels ecosystems in space. Solving the paradox between non-spatial eco-system and design distance criterion

Elena Cogato Lanza

Some transdisciplinary ‘metropolitan laboratories’ created to improve the global transition by renewing concepts, analytical tools and project approaches have demonstrated a certain vivacity and capacity for experimentation. Metrolab in Brussels, for examp ...

UCL Bruxelles2020

Analyzing four decades of literature on urban planning studies in Africa (1980–2020)

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Rémi Jaligot

Although rapid population growth will give them a significant weight in global urbanization by the middle of the century, African cities remain little known. As a result, they are essentially outside the global intellectual arena on urban issues, which jus ...

2020

A New Approach to the Collection and Spatial Analysis of Land Values in Lomé and Yaoundé

Jérôme Chenal, Armel Firmin Kemajou Mbianda, Martí Bosch Padrós

Understanding the land market is crucial when analyzing the spatial dynamics of cities. Spatial models, which are widely used to describe the growth of cities, are underdeveloped in Africa, due in part to the lack of urban data and/or the difficulty of col ...

2020

Handbook of Urban Mobilities

Vincent Kaufmann

This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and ‘the urban’ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, ...

Routledge2020

Mapping urban underground potential in Dakar, Senegal: From the analytic hierarchy process to self-organizing maps

Michael Robert Doyle

This article presents a mapping method that seeks to provide urban planning with a diagnostic overview of the underground resources of an urban area. Resource potentials (for buildable space, groundwater or geomaterial extraction and geothermal energy) ten ...

2020

Mapping Urbanization as an Anthropedogenetic Process: A Section through the Times of Urban Soils

Antoine Vialle

Current trends of spatial planning policies give a strategic role to soils, the multifunctionality of which must be considered as a crucial driver facing cities’ forthcoming social-ecological transition. However, soils within urban areas are insufficiently ...

2020

Genèse et actualité d’une critique de la ville par les marges: Enquêtes en terrains bruxellois sur les possibilités de différer dans la ville contemporaine

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni

In this article, we address the persistence of urban critiques operated from the margins, that is, from what differs and struggles to find its place in the urban order. Those critiques, which historically emerged with urban struggles and artistic avant-gar ...

2020

Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties: A Relational Perspective on Urban Coexistence

Maxime Carl Felder

The dichotomy between ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ ties is a common theme in sociological scholarship dealing with urban space, yet urban ethnographers have long been describing the prevalence of impersonal relations. Such relations can be described as fleeting enc ...

2020

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Genèse et actualité d’une critique de la ville par les marges: Enquêtes en terrains bruxellois sur les possibilités de différer dans la ville contemporaine

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni

2020

Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties: A Relational Perspective on Urban Coexistence

Maxime Carl Felder

2020

Brussels ecosystems in space. Solving the paradox between non-spatial eco-system and design distance criterion

Elena Cogato Lanza

UCL Bruxelles2020