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2. Les petites villes açoriennes au défi de l’archipel et des réseaux
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Louis Marrou
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Azores ,urbanity ,social networks ,lead change agent ,Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
The Portuguese archipelago of the Azores is a kind of urban form museum. It’s the result of a rich history and strong competition between the nine islands. By the end of the 20th century, the rise of the archipelago scale and modern communication networks change the balance. The break point is taking place at the time when the Azores are struggling to maintain its local population. At the same moment, the archipelago is experienced a significant tourist development. The urban fact is becoming diluted, and new partners are emerging.
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- 2023
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3. Tinghir. Les mutations d’une ville présaharienne dans un monde globalisé
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Moulay Abdallah Odghiri
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Tinghir ,pre-Saharian city ,urbanisation ,globalisation ,urbanity ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
Located in an environment totally structured by tribes, Tinghir experienced, after independence, an unprecedented demographic explosion, followed by an accelerated urban sprawl and a universal diffusion of material and cultural goods from the four corners of the globe, and this, to its hinterland. In these dynamics, the inhabitants of Tinghir are constantly reinventing their practices of urban space, and the growing feeling of belonging to a common city unites them more and more around the same values and the same symbols, while weakening the reference to the lineage system in social relations. However, tribal affiliations and ethnic origins, even hidden behind the fact of being Tinghirian, resurface from time to time and maintain the invisible borders between the community territories of the city.
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- 2022
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4. The Colonial Lagos Boy In The Ibadan Archives: A Review Of The Structural Context
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Tunde Decker
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boyhood ,colonial ,urbanity ,lagos ,livelihood. ,Diplomatics. Archives. Seals ,CD1-6471 ,History (General) ,D1-2009 - Abstract
This paper examines the structural context of urbanity in the daily lives of boys in colonial Lagos. Particularly, it aims to underscore the ways in which their testaments, as conveyed in their petitions, point to the structural composition of livelihood and how they presented urbanity, poverty, fatherhood, employment, benefaction, education, servanthood, the state and the ‘interiority complex’ that reflected their personhood in the period – a phenomenon that remains inadequately interrogated in existing works. What is also significant here is the attention paid to the words of the boys as they constructed the generic conditions that their specific expressions point to. Here, in addition to livelihood matters, it is the way in which their words present the teenage boy in the period referred to by the correspondences that serve as the data for the analysis that is presented. Thus, this article focuses on the facts as presented showing the manner in which boyhood was portrayed in the very words of the boys themselves.
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- 2020
5. Des spatialités aux capacités
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Irene Sartoretti, Jacques Lévy, and Shin Alexandre Koseki
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pupils ,spatial practices ,spatiality ,urbanity ,construction of personality ,capacitation ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 - Abstract
At the intersection of the social sciences of space and education, the article explores how pupils’ spatiality, that is, their spatial practices and orientations, participate in the construction of aspirations and capabilities. Particular attention is paid to isolated and low-density places, with their specific spatialities, compared with those of places with a high degree of urbanity. This article is the result of a qualitative research, combining semi-directive interviews and observation, carried out in eight public schools of the Reims school district which differ from each other in terms of geographical location and target public. The research showed how the spatial practices specific to different degrees of urbanity can have an impact on the construction of personality, which includes the development of capacities to create aspirations for social and spatial mobility.
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- 2022
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6. « Dans la rue et le bitume ne poussent que les fleurs du mal » : jouer et déjouer Charles Baudelaire et sa poésie dans le rap français
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Nina Rolland
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Baudelaire (Charles) ,hip hop ,rap ,adaptation ,intertextuality ,urbanity ,Language and Literature - Abstract
Baudelaire is amongst the French poets who have most often been set to music. However, some adaptations of his poetry are too loose to be considered as song settings. It is the case for numerous rap songs that cite, sample, or reword Baudelaire’s poems. This article examines representations and performances of Baudelaire’s poetry through a cultural, textual, and musical perspective. Baudelaire appears to be a benchmark that rap artists celebrate to legitimise their work or that they reject to mark a distance with the French literary canon and related institutional values. The performed intertextuality at stake shows however a revocation of traditional oppositions between rap and poetry, highbrow art and popular art. Instead, a rich network linked to urban culture and the exploitation of sonic connections is created between poetry, mélodie, chanson, and rap.
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- 2021
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7. Dead End? Young Mototaxi Drivers Between Being Stuck, Bridging Potholes and Building a Future in Goma, Eastern Congo
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Silke Oldenburg
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youth ,waithood ,DR Congo ,Goma ,motorcycle taxis ,urbanity ,History of Africa ,DT1-3415 ,Social Sciences - Abstract
Bustling mototaxis are a pervasive phenomenon on Goma’s streets and their emergence and proliferation is highly linked to the context of the protracted violent conflict in Eastern Congo. By highlighting the nexus of physical and social mobilities, work, and leisure, this paper aims to analyze the different trajectories of young mototaxi drivers that go beyond concepts of “being stuck” (Sommers, 2012) and focus instead on their ways of working towards the future. In contrast to prior research, this paper shows that being young in the city does not necessarily lead to “abject futures” or condemn youth to an endless “waithood” that results in “social death”. Based on ethnographic data I have gathered since 2008, I will trace the different ways young mototaxi drivers make sense of the ontological continuum of being young and becoming an adult. By centering on their everyday life worlds, I argue that motards have more options than simply ending up at a dead end.
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- 2019
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8. ÉTUDE COMPARATIVE DE L'ÉCOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION DES RALLIDÉS ENTRE MILIEU URBAIN ET MILIEU NATUREL DANS LE NORD-EST ALGÉRIEN.
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BELABED-ZEDIRI, Hassiba, BELABED, Adnène Ibrahim, and BOUSLAMA, Zihad
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- 2020
9. « Mostaganem avant l’envahissement » : fragments de discours numériques autour de l’appropriation de l’espace de la ville
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Ibtissem Chachou
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Algeria ,Mostaganem ,Urbanity ,Digital Discourse ,Urban Sociolinguistics ,Intra-Urbans Fractures ,Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology ,GN301-674 ,Cities. Urban geography ,GF125 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Abstract
In this article, I spot the light on a discourse extracted from a digital corpus from a Facebook page entitled Mostaganem of the 50s. This latter has been posting/distributing old photographes of the city since 2012. The page has around 16 600 suscribers. The comments that goes with those “posts” often lead the internet users to an exchange and debats about the posted pictures (street, quarter, bridge, villa, gardin, hospital, market etc.) and leave tensions between the city’s inhabitants. In fact, the analysis of the statements that constitue our corpus shows that malaises socio-urban feed and strengthen the “traditional” intra-urbans fractures among those “townsfolk” “Old” and “natives/real inhabitants” of the city and those who come recently. Those malaises have problems related to the population density, urban protection, incompetent electers, safeguarding and restoration of material heritage, urbanisation of the city, etc.
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- 2019
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10. Une troisième (et dernière) révolution ? Ou le tourisme comme rapport unique à l’urbain et au monde
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Georges-Henry Laffont
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inhabiting ,urbanity ,tourism ,spatiality ,experience ,Voyage à Nantes ,Recreation. Leisure ,GV1-1860 - Abstract
Continuing work on the links between tourism and spatiality, this text supports the thesis that we have entered a new era beyond the “recreational turn”. Now there would no longer be mere interdependent relations and tensions between urbanisation and tourism: man would inhabit the world as a tourist. Any urban space would be designed by and for tourism; any act of urban and/or architectural planning would aim to produce the conditions for a relationship with the world based on entertainment. To defend this thesis, a double study of the Voyage à Nantes and Confluences-Lyon, as emblematic illustrations of this new era, and of literature on contemporary spatialities, where urbanity, tourism, urban production and inhabiting are entangled, will be mobilised.
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- 2019
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11. Territoires et urbanités autochtones face aux défis socio-écologiques au Canada : enjeux d’inclusion et de gouvernance
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Oumar Kane, Julien Hocine, and Catherine Cadotte
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Canada ,urbanity ,savoirs autochtones ,urbanités ,villes ,cities ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,environmental governance ,indigenous knowledge ,gouvernance environnementale ,General Environmental Science ,autochtones ,indigenous peoples - Abstract
Cette recherche propose une réflexion sur les urbanités autochtones et la gouvernance environnementale. Au Canada, la littérature scientifique a abondamment étudié les modes de gouvernance et la cogestion des ressources dans les territoires ancestraux, insistant notamment sur leurs importantes ressources naturelles et la résurgence de cosmologies susceptibles de contribuer différemment aux actions collectives face aux défis socio-écologiques contemporains. Alors qu’au Québec la majorité des personnes autochtones vivent à l’extérieur des réserves, peu de travaux ont été consacrés aux modes de gouvernance impliquant les Autochtones en milieu urbain, encore moins en matière d’environnement. Les modes de gouvernance dominants ont par ailleurs été critiqués au motif qu’ils risqueraient de perpétuer des cadres de collaboration inégalitaires et de nuire à une gouvernance réellement inclusive. La raison en est, entre autres, que les structures coloniales de pouvoir disqualifient les épistémologies relatives aux pratiques et aux savoirs minorisés. À cet égard, le contexte urbain nécessite de reconsidérer les enjeux associés à la gouvernance face aux défis socio-écologiques contemporains en raison de la diversité des acteurs impliqués, ce sur quoi s’attarde cet article en procédant à un examen critique de la littérature portant sur ce sujet. La présence des Autochtones dans les grands centres urbains au Canada n’est pas nouvelle, et leur absence au chapitre de la gouvernance environnementale semble attester d’un manque de reconnaissance de cette réalité et de l’exclusion des perspectives autochtones. Pour y remédier, la gouvernance en milieu urbain devrait être repensée tant du point de vue de la représentativité des différentes voix que des modèles alternatifs de prise en compte du commun dont les Autochtones sont susceptibles d’enrichir la cité. This research note proposes a reflection on indigenous urbanities and environmental governance. In Canada, the scientific literature has extensively studied the models of governance and the co-management of resources in indigenous territories, emphasizing their important natural resources and the existence of cosmologies that can contribute in an alternative way to collective action in the face of contemporary socio-ecological challenges. While most indigenous people in Quebec live outside the reserve, little work has been dedicated to the governance models involving indigenous people in urban areas, and even less on the environment. The dominant modes of governance have also been criticized on the grounds that they risk perpetuating unequal frameworks of collaboration and hindering truly inclusive governance. One of the reasons for this is that colonial power structures tend to disqualify alternative epistemologies and practices. In this regard, the urban context requires a reconsideration of the issues associated with governance in the face of contemporary socio-ecological challenges due to the diversity of actors involved, which is what this article focuses on by critically examining the relevant literature. The presence of Aboriginal people in Canada's major urban centers is not new, and their absence from environmental governance seems to reflect a lack of recognition of this reality and the exclusion of their perspectives. To remedy this, urban governance should be rethought from the point of view of the representativeness of the different voices as well as alternative models of considering the commonality that Aboriginal people can enrich the city with.
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- 2023
12. La Gotham de Batman, une géographie des peurs américaines
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Neuman, David and Vergez, Fabien
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Gotham ,Urbanités ,Série animée ,Urbanity ,Villes ,Batman ,Animated series ,Cities - Abstract
La série animée Batman, apparue en 1992, constitue une matrice esthétique pour les productions qui suivront, autour du héros masqué, en hybridant le courant noir des années 1930-1950 à l’iconographie des comics. Elle invite également à penser la spatialité de la ville américaine à l’orée des années 1990, incarnée par la dualité psychologique du personnage et sa galerie emblématique de vilains., Batman: The Animated Series, which began in 1992, was an aesthetic matrix for the other Batman works that would follow, combining the noir trend of the 1930s–1950s with the iconography of comic books. The series also invites us to think about the spatiality of US cities in the early 1990s, incarnated by Batman’s psychological dualism and his iconic rogues’ gallery.
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- 2023
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13. « Mostaganem avant l'envahissement »: fragments de discours numériques autour de l'appropriation de l'espace de la ville.
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CHACHOU, IBTISSEM
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URBAN land use , *CITIES & towns , *URBAN growth , *PUBLIC space design & construction - Abstract
In this article, I spot the light on a discourse extracted from a digital corpus from a Facebook page entitled Mostaganem of the 50s. This latter has been posting/distributing old photographes of the city since 2 01 2 . The page has around 1 6 600 suscribers. The comments that goes with those "posts" often lead the internet users to an exchange and debats about the posted pictures (street, quarter, bridge, villa, gardin, hospital, market etc.) and leave tensions between the city 's inhabitants. In fact, the analysis of the statem ents that constitue our corpus shows that maliases socio-urban feed and strengthen the "traditional" intra-urbans fractures among those "townsfolk" "Old" and "natives/real inhabitants" of the city and those who come recently . Those malaises have problem s related to the population density, urban protection, incompetent electers, safeguarding and restoration of material heritage, urbanisation of the city, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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14. Quand on se rassemble en ville
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Emmanuelle Lallement
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Festival ,Ritual ,Public Space ,Picnic ,Paris Plage ,Urbanity ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Towns and cities lend themselves to the analysis of forms of co-existence (“l’exister ensemble”). Through an anthropological analysis of a number of contemporary urban gatherings, this article seeks to grasp the logics underpinning the production of collectives where the effect of gathering together can be examined in terms of the “ephemeral collective”. The article focuses on two examples of urban Parisian ephemeral collectives: on the one hand, an annual event, Paris Plage, which has become emblematic of the festive detournement of urban public space; on the other, micro-events, namely picnics, involving a more fragmented appropriation of certain spaces in the city. The analysis highlights the momentary inversion and transgression of social spaces and relations as a typically urban euphoric value.
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- 2016
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15. Between naturalness and urbanity, how are protected areas integrated into cities? The case of Helsinki (Finland)
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Camille Girault
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urban protected areas ,naturalness ,urbanity ,conservation ,metropolization ,northern Europe ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Abstract
Helsinki boasts numerous protected nature areas with a variety of statuses and objectives, including 52 nature reserves within the metropolitan area and two national parks just outside the city. Given this abundance of protected sites, Helsinki is an excellent example through which to examine nature-conservation policies in the socio-economic and environmental context of northern Europe. How strongly and how directly are these sites integrated into the city’s fabric? The situation in Finland’s capital shows that protection can become a factor in metropolization and that, in some cases, protected areas can be considered components of urbanity. This paper investigates the relationship between urbanity and naturalness by examining how protected areas are used, portrayed and construed. Urban policies and processes, the rhythms of city life and city dwellers’ habits and imaginations shape urban protected areas to such an extent that the urbanity of a city and the naturalness of its protected areas become inseparable. Hence, the “natural” character of these sites combines with their “urban” location in relationships that are usually complex and sometimes paradoxical. More generally, the situation in Helsinki highlights the important roles nature areas can play in shaping a city’s identity and in the process of metropolization.
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- 2017
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16. « Villes nouvelles » et urbanités émergentes dans les périphéries de Constantine et Marrakech
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Jean-Marie Ballout
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Morocco ,Algeria ,new city ,urbanity ,periphery ,Political science ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Since 2000, the outskirts of major North African cities have become the stage of many urban developments, undertaken with a project approach. These major projects were subjected to exhaustive research particularly regarding their political and institutional dimensions. However, their actual socio-spatial effects have not yet been fully disclosed.The purpose of this article is to contribute to this field of research, and more specifically on the subject of the “social reception” of urban planning projects, in this case: “new towns”. Based on the situation analysis and appraisal of the inhabited space of the “new towns” of Ali Mendjeli and Tamansourt, respectively located in the outskirts of Constantine (Algeria) and Marrakech (Morocco), we endeavored to verify whether or not forms of urbanity were emerging in the re-territorialized areas as a result of these projects. In other words, do the inhabitants of “new towns” perceive their space as a city?
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- 2015
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17. Cinéma et urbanité à Tunis sous le protectorat français
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Morgan Corriou
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urbanity ,cinemas ,spectatorship ,youth ,Tunis ,Political science ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
The development of cinema in Tunis did not seem, at first, to disrupt the geography of leisure in the city. Movie theaters were mostly located in the city center, favoring the most vibrant streets of the Tunisian capital. Exhibitors admittedly neglected the outskirts of the city. Yet movie theaters were scattered across the new town and started penetrating a medina doomed to marginalization, proving that the ancient forms of urbanization were not irreconcilable with the new urban lifestyle. Movie consumption was first and foremost a local activity. But neither the social influence of the local cinema nor the symbolic frontiers dividing the city could confine movie lovers. The expansion of the cinema generated new flows of moviegoers throughout the city and helped Tunisians to reclaim the public space. In the post-war years, the movie theaters of the “European” center became a place of conviviality for an educated youth whose urban identity would be rooted there.
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- 2015
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18. « À travers la vie courante »
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Harold Bérubé
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Nationalism ,Catholicism ,Urbanity ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Christianity ,BR1-1725 - Abstract
The hostility of catholic thinkers towards the modern city is well known. It’s only late in the 20th century that the Catholic Church changes course and develops a certain urban expertise. In this article, I offer a more nuanced vision of things through an exploration of Quebec’s case. I demonstrate that French-Canadian catholic intellectuals of the interwar period were already looking for ways of conciliating the urban industrialized world and catholic values. Their solutions may have been clumsy, but they illustrate a sincere effort to live as catholic urban-dwellers in a city that would reflect, as closely as possible, their values and beliefs. I demonstrate, in parallel, that their understanding of urbanity is coloured not only by the social doctrine of the Church, but also by a French-Canadian nationalism that is closely tied to Catholicism during this period.
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- 2015
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19. Les nouvelles pratiques de l’espace dans des cités de relogement à Rabat (Maroc)
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Habiba Essahel
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Urban Studies ,Public spaces ,urbanity ,urbanité ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,ownership ,pratiques urbaines ,inhabit ,urban practices ,appropriation ,Espaces publics ,habiter - Abstract
Cette contribution a pour objectif de mener une réflexion sur les nouvelles pratiques des habitants dans les espaces publics des cités de relogement. Celles-ci sont investies par d’anciens bidonvillois relogés dans le cadre du programme « Villes sans bidonvilles » lancé dès 2003 par les autorités. Nous tenterons d’identifier quels sont les nouveaux espaces publics et interstices de la cité de relogement. Ceci est intéressant dans la mesure où nombre d’entre eux étaient inexistants dans leurs anciens quartiers. Comment les groupes identifiés inscrivent-ils spatialement ces appropriations ? Quelles sont les formes d’usages et d’appropriation de ces espaces ? Quel sens leur donner en termes d’urbanité, de modes d’habiter et de pratique de la ville ? Nous mettrons la focale sur la pratique sexuée/genrée de ces espaces et montrerons aussi que les espaces publics de la cité de relogement oscillent entre pratiques sociales et pratiques politiques. This contribution has for objective to lead a reflection on the new practices of the inhabitants in the public places of the cities of rehousing. These are invested by people living in slums rehoused within the framework of the program "Cities without slums" thrown from 2003 by the authorities. We shall try to identify what are the new public places and the interstices of the city of rehousing; this is interesting as far as numbers of them were non-existent in their old urban districts. How the identified groups register spatially these appropriations? What are the forms of practices and appropriation of these spaces? What strategies of appropriations do they set up? What meaning can be moving to them in terms of politeness, way of living and shifting the practice of the city? We shall show that the investment of these spaces allow the inhabitants to accept their new living space, to recreate moments of user-conviviality, sociability, intense festivities - lost and regretted - which characterized their lifestyle in slums. However, we will also show that the public places of quoted from rehousing oscillate between social practices and political practices.
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- 2022
20. Rénovation urbaine post-industrielle et mise en ambiance méditerranéenne à Kawasaki : une rédemption par le pastiche ?
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Denis Bocquet
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Japan ,Kawasaki ,urbanity ,architecture ,town-planning ,themed urbanism ,Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,Social Sciences - Abstract
In Downtown Kawasaki the presence of an industrial brownfield (ex-Toshiba factory) and the fact that commuters arriving from Tokyo just rushed towards their respective residential neighbourhoods combined in making the local characters of urbanity very fragile. Local authorities and two major real estate and commercial companies asked, at the end of the 1990s and following two decades of reflections on information technologies being a tool of urban revitalization, two foreign architects, Jon Jerde and Ricardo Bofill, to work on urban atmospheres. Both chose to build a pastiche urban scenography inspired by the Mediterranean. The object of this article is to analyse how such post-modern cultural fictions reflect present trends in themed urbanism, to reflect on pastiche as a tool of urbanity creation and to discuss what constitutes the very fundamental characters of urbanity.
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- 2017
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21. La Ville algérienne : mal-gouvernance et déficit d’urbanité Réflexions à partir de l’exemple des quartiers de l’habitat social
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Hachemi LAGHOUAG
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City ,Social Housing ,Urbanity ,Urban Governance ,Urban Actors ,Social Sciences - Abstract
Algerian city: poor governance and deficit of urbanity. Reflections from the example of neighbourhoods of social housing The present paper discusses the question of the urbanity’s deficit in Algerian cities. If this deficit does not save any urban space, it is even more stressed in the peripheral spaces where are established the major party of the social housing areas. While noting the different dysfunctions of the inhabited areas in urban development and "urbanity hardware devices”, it highpoints the deficit involvement of the principal actors supposed to take charge of these areas and consequently the poor urban governance.
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- 2014
22. Actions thérapeutiques de résistances en territoire anicinabe : œuvres autochtones contemporaines environnementales en zones urbaines abitibiennes
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Turmel-Chénard, Ariane and Vigneault, Louise
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Anicinabe ,œuvres environnementales ,Healing ,Urbanity ,cosmogonies autochtones ,Mother Earth ,Indigenous cosmogonies ,Colonialism ,colonialisme ,Indigenous art ,Art therapy ,Environmental works ,art autochtone ,urbanité ,art thérapie ,Terre-Mère ,Algonquin ,Abitibi ,guérison - Abstract
En regard aux conclusions de différentes commissions d’enquête (Enquête nationale sur les femmes et les filles autochtones disparues et assassinées en 2014, Commission de vérité et réconciliation en 2015, Commission Viens en 2019), les blessures perpétrées par le régime colonial canadien aux Autochtones apparaissent impossibles à nier. En territoire anicinabe d’Abitibi, une réelle affirmation culturelle autochtone témoigne alors d’une prise de parole dans l’espace urbain. En lien avec l’histoire de la colonisation du territoire qui les a vus naître, ce mémoire analyse quatre réalisations environnementales publiques : Des pierres qui prient (Pésémapéo-Bordeleau 1997, Amos), Poésie en marche pour Sindy (Pésémapéo-Bordeleau 2017, Val-d’Or), Otipi (Papatè 2017, Val-d’Or) et Orignal (Boulanger, Binette, Happyjack et Kakekayash 2019, Val-d’Or). À travers les propos des artistes (Pascale-Josée Binette, Kigos Papatè et Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau), de travailleuses culturelles impliquées dans les projets rencontré.e.s (Geneviève Béland, Carmelle Adam et Marianne Trudel), puis de penseur.e.s majoritairement autochtones, ces différentes œuvres sont réfléchies comme participant au mouvement autochtone de guérison entamé en Abitibi depuis plusieurs années, et s’opposant aux effets du colonialisme encore perceptibles dans les villes. Ces différentes manifestations culturelles proposent une façon d’être en relation à la nature dans l’espace urbain, plus près d’un rapport animiste qu'anthropocentriste. Pensant leur pratique artistique à partir de leurs cultures ancestrales, ces artistes autochtones contemporains lient leurs blessures à celles de la Terre-Mère et s’expriment ainsi sur les conséquences des développements coloniaux de ce territoire. Ces démarches environnementales autochtones anticoloniales en ces terres urbanisées visent ainsi à rétablir un équilibre., In light of the conclusions of various commissions of inquiry (National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2014, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2015, Viens Commission in 2019), the harm perpetrated by the Canadian colonial regime on Indigenous people is impossible to deny. In the Anicinabe territory of Abitibi, a genuine Indigenous cultural affirmation thus testifies to the fact that they are speaking out in the urban space. This dissertation analyzes four public environmental artworks, connecting them to the history of colonization of the territory where they emerged : Des pierres qui prient (Pésémapéo-Bordeleau 1997, Amos), Poésie en marche pour Sindy (Pésémapéo-Bordeleau 2017, Val-d'Or), Otipi (Papatè 2017, Val-d'Or) and Orignal (Boulanger, Binette, Happyjack and Kakekayash 2019, Val-d'Or). Through my encounters with the artists (Pascale-Josée Binette, Kigos Papatè and Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau), as well as the cultural workers involved in the projects (Geneviève Béland, Carmelle Adam and Marianne Trudel), and building on theories of mostly Indigenous thinkers, these different works are reflected as participating in the Indigenous healing movement that is underway in Abitibi for several years, and as opposing the effects of colonialism that are still perceptible in the cities. These different cultural manifestations propose a way of relating to nature in the urban space closer to an animistic than anthropocentric relationship. Anchoring their artistic practice in their ancestrals cultures, these contemporary indigenous artists link their wounds to those of Mother Earth, hence expressing themselves on the consequences of colonial developments in these lands. These anti-colonial indigenous environmental approaches thus aim to restore a balance in urbanized lands.
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- 2022
23. Des spatialités aux capacités
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Sartoretti, Irene, Lévy, Jacques, and Koseki, Shin Alexandre
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capacitation ,capacité à l’aspiration ,urbanity ,construction of personality ,capacidad a la aspiración ,élèves ,spatialité ,construcción de la personalidad ,construction de la personnalité ,pratiques spatiales ,spatial practices ,urbanidad ,urbanité ,pupils ,capacidades ,spatiality ,espacialidad ,prácticas espaciales ,alumnos ,capacity to aspire - Abstract
À la croisée des sciences sociales de l’espace et de l’éducation, l’article explore la manière dont la spatialité des élèves, c’est-à-dire leurs pratiques et orientations spatiales, participe de la construction d’aspirations et de capacités. L’attention est tout particulièrement portée sur les endroits isolés et à faible densité, avec leurs spatialités spécifiques, comparées avec celles propres des lieux à haut degré d’urbanité. L’article est issu d’une enquête qualitative, combinant entretiens semi-directifs et observation, menée dans huit établissements scolaires de l’Académie de Reims, qui diffèrent entre eux par la situation géographique et le public visé. L’enquête a montré comment les pratiques spatiales propres aux différents degrés d’urbanité peuvent avoir une incidence sur la construction de la personnalité, qui comprend le développement de capacités à créer des aspirations à la mobilité sociale et spatiale. At the intersection of the social sciences of space and education, the article explores how pupils’ spatiality, that is, their spatial practices and orientations, participate in the construction of aspirations and capabilities. Particular attention is paid to isolated and low-density places, with their specific spatialities, compared with those of places with a high degree of urbanity. This article is the result of a qualitative research, combining semi-directive interviews and observation, carried out in eight public schools of the Reims school district which differ from each other in terms of geographical location and target public. The research showed how the spatial practices specific to different degrees of urbanity can have an impact on the construction of personality, which includes the development of capacities to create aspirations for social and spatial mobility. De las espacialidades a las capacidades. Cómo la experiencia espacial de los alumnos contribuye a su construcción personalEn la encrucijada de las ciencias sociales del espacio y la educación, el artículo explora cómo la espacialidad de los alumnos, es decir, sus prácticas y orientaciones espaciales, contribuye a la construcción de aspiraciones y capacidades. Se presta especial atención a los lugares aislados y de baja densidad, con sus espacialidades específicas, en comparación con las espacialidades propias de los lugares con un alto grado de urbanidad. El articulo se basa en un estudio cualitativo, que combina entrevistas semiestructuradas y observación, realizado en ocho escuelas del distrito educativo de Reims, que difieren entre sí por situación geográfica y tipo de público. La encuesta mostró cómo las prácticas espaciales propias de los diferentes grados de urbanidad pueden tener un impacto en la construcción de la personalidad, que incluye el desarrollo de capacidades para crear aspiraciones de movilidad social y espacial.
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- 2022
24. La naturbanité, une utopie réalisée par le Parc national urbain de Stockholm ?
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Girault, Camille, Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), and Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Sweden ,heterotopia ,naturbanité ,urbanity ,protected space ,Suède ,hétérotopie ,Europe du Nord ,Northern Europe ,General Medicine ,utopie ,Stockholm ,Urban park ,naturbanity ,urbanité ,Djurgården ,utopia ,naturalité ,11. Sustainability ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,politiques de protection ,naturalness ,conservation policies ,parc urbain ,espace protégé - Abstract
Through the Stockholm National Urban Park, a reversal of the conservation logic is here considered as a figure of utopia: urban features are not a threat to nature, but urbanity is regarded as the very object worth conserving. By claiming itself as the first city in the world to have established such a "national urban park", Stockholm nurtures the image of an ideal city by creating an innovative urban space. The latter participates in urban identity and it contributes to built a Nordic relation to the world where some a priori contradictory values are condensed into the same place. The result of a strong imbrication between urbanity and naturalness invites us to propose and discuss the concept of naturbanity as the foundation and expression of an utopia carried out in the Swedish metropolis.; Au prisme du Parc national urbain de Stockholm, un renversement des logiques de protection est ici envisagé comme figure de l’utopie : l’urbain n’est pas appréhendé comme une menace vis-à-vis de la nature, l’urbanité est au contraire considérée comme l’objet même de la protection. En se revendiquant comme la première ville du monde à avoir établi un tel « parc national urbain », Stockholm nourrit l’image d’une cité idéale par l’établissement d’un espace urbain innovant. Ce dernier participe à l’identité urbaine et contribue à la production d’un rapport nordique au monde où des valeurs a priori contradictoires sont condensées en un même lieu. L’imbrication forte entre l’urbanité et la naturalité qui en résulte invite ainsi à proposer et à discuter la notion de naturbanité comme le fondement et l’expression d’une utopie réalisée dans la métropole suédoise.
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- 2022
25. Lumières de Pointe-Noire
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Koffi, Junior Vianney Damo
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Road ,Quête de soi ,Cosmopolitan subject ,Route ,Urbanité ,Urbanity ,Identity/otherness ,Sujet cosmopolite ,Identité/altérité ,Quest for self - Abstract
Lumières de Pointe-Noire d’Alain Mabanckou se livre comme un récit de filiation on the road. Les voies urbaines par lesquelles l’auteur reprend contact avec les voix des locus de son passé instituent, dans la textualité, une sorte de pèlerinage et un « chemin de croix » qui mettent en évidence une écriture de la quête/(re)conquête de soi chemin faisant, mais aussi l’interrogation des vestiges d’une individualité longtemps rattachée à l’espace matriciel., Lumières de Pointe-Noire by Alain Mabanckou is a story of filiation on the road. The urban ways by which the author reconnects with the voices of the places of his past establish, in the textuality, a sort of pilgrimage and a “ stations of the cross ” which highlight a writing of the quest/(re)conquest of oneself along the way, but also the questioning of the vestiges of an individuality long attached to the matrix space.
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- 2022
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26. Oralité et création : les modalités d'insertion des genres urbains dans la production orale bobo.
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SANOU, Alain
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- 2017
27. De las luchas urbanas a las grandes inversiones. La nueva urbanidad periférica en Bogotá
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Alice Beuf
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urban peripheries ,production of space ,Bogota ,urbanity ,private sector ,social mobilization ,Latin America. Spanish America ,F1201-3799 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
The article explores the recent transformations of the urban peripheries of Bogotá. The increasing complexit of these lead us to consider the emergence of a new model of peripheral urbanity. We analyze the new model of peripheral urbanity as the result of interactions between large recent investment of capital, both from private groups and also from public sector, and the actions of the inhabitants. To examine this theme, we restore the historic logic of production of urban space in three study areas in western and northern peripheries of Bogota and we are faced with forms of social and political mobilization that have evolved simultaneously. The introduction of a mode of production «from above» in spaces traditionally produced «from below» entails significant changes in the ways people relate to their living spaces.
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- 2012
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28. Matière de Fès : littérature, cinérgie et cinécriture
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Abdelkrim Chiguer
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poetics ,urbanity ,time ,cinergy ,space ,evolution ,Language and Literature - Abstract
Walled up because of an overused binarism, intra-muros vs extra-muros, ordre vs chaos, the medina appears in Aya dans les villes, a collection of short stories, material made of stones, letters, but as well still and animated images. The medina allows to raise an hypothesis: poetics are linked less to architecture, painting, ut picture poesis, than to a wise organization of time, and to movie-making. Fes urbanity displays itself like a form of hybridism, which fragments of time, left over for a while, hold out against any definitive reproduction.
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- 2012
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29. Infrastructures viaires et discontinuités urbaines : quels remèdes pour une accessibilité meilleure dans le contexte de la ville-région contemporaine ?
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Ibrahim Gharbi
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urban study ,city-region ,road infrastructure ,automobility ,urbanity ,accessibility ,Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Taking advantage of a research trying to understand the relationship between road infrastructure and urban form in the specific context of the contemporary city-region during the second half of the twentieth century, this article highlights the impact of the hegemony of the automobile on forms of urbanization. Specifically, this is to clarify the role of road infrastructure in the establishment of a dispersed city mainly characterized by the discontinuity of its global shape and the "limited" inter-accessibility in its urban area. This reality contradicts the sense of urbanity perceived as a parameter identifying the urban phenomenon in itself, and materializing mainly through inter-accessibility of various urban entities. It was with the advent of the automobile that urbanization has been deployed to meet political and/or economic imperatives thereby abstracting from the social reality of the city and people’s demands in terms of mobility and access to urban spaces. The requirements of automobility have settled a road infrastructure that has clearly contributed to the reorganization of urbanized territories by changing the criteria of residential, commercial, industrial and service location, which were based primarily on relationships of proximity. The automobile transformed also the nature of links between these activities that become spatially dispersed and hardly accessible, except perhaps with a car. In light of this state of affairs, what role can urban planning play in order to improve accessibility to the various urban spaces, especially for users of active transportation (walking, cycling, wheelchair, etc...) as well as public one? In response to this question, some architects and planners such as Albert Pope and Bernardo Secchi suggest courses of action to meet the multiple needs of people looking for urbanity.
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- 2016
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30. « Dans la rue et le bitume ne poussent que les fleurs du mal » : jouer et déjouer Charles Baudelaire et sa poésie dans le rap français
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Rolland, Nina
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intertextualité ,urbanity ,hip-hop ,Language and Literature ,chanson ,adaptation ,hip hop ,intertextuality ,urbanité ,song ,Baudelaire (Charles) ,rap ,performance - Abstract
Baudelaire est l’un des poètes qui a été le plus mis en musique. Cependant certaines adaptations de sa poésie sont trop éloignées du texte original pour être considérées comme mises en musique ; c’est le cas pour de nombreux morceaux de rap qui citent, samplent, ou paraphrasent des vers de Baudelaire. Cet article propose d’étudier les représentations et performances de la poésie de Baudelaire dans le rap français dans une perspective culturelle, textuelle et musicale. Le poète apparaît comme un point de repère culturel que les rappeurs s’approprient pour revendiquer leur légitimité artistique et poétique ou qu’ils rejettent au contraire afin de se démarquer du patrimoine littéraire français et des valeurs institutionnelles. L’intertextualité performée des poèmes de Baudelaire dans le rap montre cependant un dépassement des binarités rap et poésie, art populaire et art savant. Il se crée plutôt un riche réseau d’influences, qui est lié à la culture urbaine et qui repose sur un jeu de sonorités, entre la poésie de Baudelaire et le rap, en passant par la mélodie et la chanson françaises. Baudelaire is amongst the French poets who have most often been set to music. However, some adaptations of his poetry are too loose to be considered as song settings. It is the case for numerous rap songs that cite, sample, or reword Baudelaire’s poems. This article examines representations and performances of Baudelaire’s poetry through a cultural, textual, and musical perspective. Baudelaire appears to be a benchmark that rap artists celebrate to legitimise their work or that they reject to mark a distance with the French literary canon and related institutional values. The performed intertextuality at stake shows however a revocation of traditional oppositions between rap and poetry, highbrow art and popular art. Instead, a rich network linked to urban culture and the exploitation of sonic connections is created between poetry, mélodie, chanson, and rap.
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- 2021
31. Representations of Identity and Linguistic Diversity in the Urban Space of Tunisia
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Selim Ben Said and Natasha Stojanovska-Ilievska
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identity ,linguistics ,urbanity ,tunisia ,Social Sciences - Abstract
Author(s): Selim Ben Said | Селим Бен Саид Title (English): Representations of Identity and Linguistic Diversity in the Urban Space of Tunisia Title (Macedonian): Презентирање на идентитетот и лингвистичкиот диверзитет во урбаниот простор на Тунис Translated by (English to Macedonian): Natasha Stojanovska-Ilievska | Наташа Стојановска-Илиевска Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 2-3 (Summer 2007 - Winter 2008) Publisher: Research Center in Gender Studies - Skopje and Euro-Balkan Institute Page Range: 315-341 Page Count: 26 Citation (English): Selim Ben Said, “Representations of Identity and Linguistic Diversity in the Urban Space of Tunisia,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 2-3 (Summer 2007 - Winter 2008): 315-341. Citation (Macedonian): Селим Бен Саид, „Презентирање на идентитетот и лингвистичкиот диверзитет во урбаниот простор на Тунис“, превод од англиски Наташа Стојановска Илиевска, Идентитети: списание за политика, род и култура, т. 6, бр. 2-3 (лето 2007 - зима 2008): 315-341.
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- 2007
32. Cozy interiority
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Jeppe Trolle Linnet
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Atmosphere ,coziness ,hygge ,cafés ,interiority ,urbanity ,Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,Social Sciences - Abstract
The atmosphere of coziness, or “hygge” as it is referred to in Denmark, gives certain places such as cafés a particular appeal, that of providing an experience of pleasant relaxation in the here and now. This article argues that coziness can be seen as a pleasant experience of interiority, and that there are new and valuable understandings of such urban atmospheres to be gained by considering the role of co-presence with other people: How subjects relate both to fellow consumers on site, and the surrounding urban crowd. The article calls attention to the way that social and material dynamics interrelate in constituting this form of urban ambience, as the weaving of intersubjective space mirrors the interiority and porosity of material form. What arises is an experience of being pleasantly, anonymously co-present with other people’s social circles and urban movements.
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- 2015
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33. Luttes urbaines et démocratie à Caracas (2001-2004)
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Armelle Racinoux and Emiliano Zapata
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urbanity ,cities ,politics ,media ,public space ,Latin America. Spanish America ,F1201-3799 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Between 2001 and 2004, political quarrels have taken place in Caracas for the control of some of the most emblematic public spaces in the capital with the purpose of redefining their symbolic function as well as the model of urbanity they represent. This article seeks to shed light on these events by looking at the political context of the moment. It links the meaning of the occupation of these public spaces to the values they embody as a result of the historical evolution of the urban morphology. It aims furthermore at analysing the ideological implications of this differentiated territorialization of the city which builds upon two artificial poles of democracy (the “People” and the “Civil Society”) as well as its significance regarding the present mutations of the Venezuelan public and political sphere which is increasingly defined through media-processing and mystic personnalism.
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- 2006
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34. Normes de dangers et production d’urbanités: Quelques réflexions à partir de villes en conflit (Kaboul et Naplouse).
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Bathaïe, Azita and Bontemps, Véronique
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- 2016
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35. Notes, Notation, Narration : Le carnet de terrain comme « carto-ethnographie »
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Carole Lanoix
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cartography ,methodology ,fieldwork ,ethnography ,urbanity ,walking ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
How do we account for perceived, built and lived space in cities, without reducing the complexity of approaches, systems and practices? This is a challenge of the in situ observation, which is a product of changing the ability to confront our bodies to one of the place realities, particularly the one that constructs the urban “small things” where walking is both one of its means and one of its components. Looking for a metric that would be pedestrian, every step counts and participates in the cities’ spaces of representation. Based on the cartographic knowledge coming from the past, from the other cultures and from the contemporary art, walking, as an exploration of the world, sets up a collection of traces in the form of mapping stories. Embarked in its journey, the notebook questions the notion of fieldwork, in the form of researcher’s “ethnonishment” report. From the space of representation to the representation of space, it is the object of a mapping process to be (re)invented. The “carto-ethnography” in gestation is delineated through the collection of notes and by creation of a notation whose purpose is narration by a map.
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- 2014
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36. Un roman néo-gothique : The Three Impostors d’Arthur Machen (1895)
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Claire Wrobel, Voix Anglophones : Littérature et Esthétique (VALE), Université Paris-Sorbonne (UP4), and Wrobel, Claire
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Cultural Studies ,Literature ,Vision ,Celtic languages ,History ,Literature and Literary Theory ,[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,Aside ,Torture ,business.industry ,06 humanities and the arts ,060202 literary studies ,16. Peace & justice ,Age of Enlightenment ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,0602 languages and literature ,Urbanity ,[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences ,Democratization ,business ,History of Great Britain ,Order (virtue) ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,DA1-995 - Abstract
Although he didn’t refer to a well-defined « Gothic » genre, Arthur Machen, in his 1895 novel, took up many elements which had by then become traditional. Medieval torture instruments and haunted Celtic forests no longer breed fear, but are used with excess and with parodic distance. The novel reflects the evolution of Victorian Gothic, setting tales of terror and horror in the here and now of fin-de-siecle London. The contemporary threats of New Women and democratization are casually brushed aside, but Machen fully draws upon the anxiety generated by the possibility of reversion opened up by the theory of evolution and explored by anthropologists and criminologists. Moreover, he breaks the original systematic association of « Gothic » and « barbaric » with « medieval » in order to include the refined cruelties and mysteries of pagan rites in his abject visions. In a final twist, he sets a barbaric scene in a decaying mansion meant to embody the eighteenth century, thus « gothicizing » the age of enlightenment and urbanity.
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- 2021
37. Les rivages d’Istanbul : des espaces publics au cœur de la mégapole
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Antoine Fleury
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Cultural Studies ,urbanity ,Geography, Planning and Development ,formes urbaines ,pratiques ,centrality ,public space ,urbanité ,urban forms ,centralité ,Istanbul ,rivages ,urban practices ,waterfront ,espaces publics - Abstract
Les rivages d’Istanbul sont aujourd’hui des espaces publics aux formes et aux pratiques multiples, qui occupent une place à part dans la mégapole. Actuellement émergent des espaces d’un nouveau genre, où se lisent à la fois les processus de marchandisation et la quête d’une urbanité renouvelée. Ces dynamiques ne peuvent se comprendre sans être replacées dans un contexte, celui d’une mégapole en mouvement, travaillée par la recomposition de ses centralités, celui d’une société urbaine marquée par de fortes inégalités. Plus généralement, le cas d’Istanbul donne à réfléchir sur ce qui fonde et transforme un espace public, sur le rôle à la fois concret et symbolique qu’il peut jouer dans la ville. The waterfronts of Istanbul offer different public spaces, used tor many practices and have a particular status in the city. New kind of spaces are now emerging, witnesses of the merchandisation processes and the search of a new urbanity. These processes have to be understood inside the particular context of a transforming city, which is restructuring its centralities in an urban society characterized by strong inequalities. More generally, the case of Istanbul is interesting to understand what is creating and transforming a public space and to understand the concrete and symbolic raies of public spaces in the city.
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- 2021
38. NUANCES DES VILLES DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE : UNE LECTURE CHROMATIQUE DE L'ESPACE URBAIN.
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Zattoni, Olivier
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- 2015
39. Des archives démographiques à un écosystème numérique : l'enquête « Charleville »
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sylvain rassat, François-Joseph Ruggiu, Pierre-Yves Buard, Maximilien Lhomel, Mélanie Tual, Thibaut Delval, Centre de Recherche Roland Mousnier Histoire et Civilisation (CRM), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Maison de la recherche en sciences humaines (MRSH), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB), Collège international des sciences territoriales (CIST), ANR-06-CORP-0005,MPF,Mobilités, Populations et Familles dans la France du Nord de la fin du XVIIe siècle à la fin du XIXe siècle(2006), Sciencesconf.org, CCSD, and Corpus et outils de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales - Mobilités, Populations et Familles dans la France du Nord de la fin du XVIIe siècle à la fin du XIXe siècle - - MPF2006 - ANR-06-CORP-0005 - CORP - VALID
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History ,[SHS.DEMO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Demography ,Urbanity ,B.IM ,Données massives ,[SHS.DEMO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Demography ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences ,Histoire ,Big data ,Démographie ,[SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Urbanité ,BIM ,[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History ,Demography - Abstract
Charleville is an exceptional city because it is linked to an archival resource unknown elsewhere: exhaustive annual censuses, from its foundation by Charles de Gonzague (1606) to the eve of the Second World War. The “Charleville” project is the only French socio-demographic survey, and one of the very few in Europe, to carry out annual nominal monitoring of the inhabitants of a city over more than three centuries. A nominative socio-demographic database known as MPF was created thanks to the ANR project “Mobilités, Populations, Familles en France du Nord” conducted within the Roland Mousnier Centre. Since 2016, MPF’s information and its structuring have been profoundly renewed and redesigned to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the digital humanities. One of the first sensitive results is the articulation between MPF and a geographical information system in 2 and 3D. This new tool allows to cross-analyse the history of the Carolopolitan population and its urban space., Charleville est une ville exceptionnelle car liée à une ressource archivistique inconnue ailleurs : des recensements exhaustifs annuels, de sa fondation par Charles de Gonzague (1606) à la veille de la seconde guerre mondiale. Le projet « Charleville » est la seule enquête socio-démographique française, et l’une des très rares en Europe, à réaliser un suivi nominatif annuel des habitants d’une ville sur plus de trois siècles. Une base de données socio-démographique nominative dite MPF a été constituée grâce au projet ANR « Mobilités, populations, familles en France du Nord » mené au sein du Centre Roland Mousnier. Depuis 2016, les informations de MPF et leur structuration ont été profondément renouvelées et repensées pour profiter des possibilités offertes par les humanités numériques. L’un des premiers résultats sensibles est l’articulation entre MPF et un système d’information géographique en 2 et 3D. Ce nouvel outil permet l’analyse croisée de l’histoire de la population carolopolitaine et de son espace urbain.
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- 2020
40. Quelle « place » pour des pêcheurs urbains ? Le cas de Bamako (Mali)
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Kévin de la Croix, Luc Ferry, Frédéric Landy, Boureïma Traoré, Nadine Muther, Bekaye Tangara, and Didier Martin
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urbanity ,Bamako ,Niger river ,urban fishing ,water territory ,urban environment ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
In the 1990s, fishing in Mali attracted a lot of research in regard to the inner delta region, but little has been studied in the Upper Niger and even less in the capital city. Yet the part of the Niger river crossing Bamako is a place of still unappreciated intensive fishing with its own territorial, technical and governance specificities. No less than 21 fishermen camps are located on the banks and islands in the capital that contribute to the urban economy. But the spatial and demographic growth of Bamako generates numerous constraints on the fishermen community, among which the access to land property. Thus, an ambitious plan for the beautification of the river banks is threatening this activity. The occupation and the future of the fishermen of Bamako deserve to be more thoroughly studied because of the instructive dynamics and innovations observed for both the analysis and the change of this activity within the national economy, as well as for the differing imagined “urbanities” that they highlight.
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- 2013
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41. Regards catholiques sur les villes québécoises Une haine à géométrie variable (1918-1939).
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Bérubé, Harold
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- 2014
42. De l'espace pour l'école de la réussite
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Koseki, Shin Alexandre, Lévy, Jaques, and Sartoretti, Irene
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Schools ,Distance ,Geography ,Economic capital ,Urbanity ,Urbanization ,PISA ,Space ,Academic ,Teenagers ,Education ,Interviews ,Reims ,Social capital ,Spatial capital ,Scholastic ,Learning ,France ,Networks - Abstract
Ce projet de recherche visait à répondre à la question suivante : la localisation crée-t-elle des prédispositions à l’échec ou à la réussite scolaire ? On verra plus loin que la localisation peut concerner la résidence de l’élève, l’établissement, la relation entre ces deux lieux, l’ensemble de la spatialité de l’élève, un espace local incluant élèves, établissements et vie sociale quotidienne, des espaces élargis accessibles par une mobilité moins fréquente. C’est en abordant ces différents éléments qu’on peut espérer répondre à cette question avec la complexité voulue, et notamment en prenant en considération les espaces à faible densité et les situations d’isolement qui constituent le point de départ du questionnement. Jusqu’à quel point ces configurations peuvent constituer un handicap pour la réussite scolaire des élèves ? Telle est l’interrogation à laquelle il nous a été demandé de répondre aussi précisément que possible., L'équipe EPER (De l'espace pour l'école de la réussite) a été réunie au sein du rhizome de recherche Chôros. Elle comprend Dr. Shin Koseki, Prof. Jacques Lévy et Dr. Irene Sartoretti. Ont également apporté leur concours à ce projet Isabelle Hennion, Dr. Sylvie Joublot-Ferré, Prof. Olivier Lazzarotti, Philippe Petit, Aurélie Vandeginste et l'équipe d'enseignants réunie autour des DASEN Jérôme Damblant et Emmanuel Liandier. Cette recherche a bénéficié du soutien multiforme de la Rectrice Hélène Insel, et de ses collaborateurs au Rectorat de Reims, en particulier de Benoît Roger, d'Elza van de Vijver, de David Bates et d'Isabelle Bleuze. Elle n'aurait pas été possible sans le concours bienveillant de la Directrice de la DEPP Fabienne Rosenwald et de ses collaborateurs. Ariane Azéma, IGENSR, et Prof. Pierre Mathiot, chargés de la mission Territoires et réussite ont apporté leurs précieux éclairages.
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- 2020
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43. Urban mobility and ecomotive transition in Norwegian cities : Oslo and Tromsø
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Grégoire Tortosa, STAR, ABES, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences de la Société (CRISS), Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF), Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, and Marc Galochet
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[SHS.ARCHI]Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management ,Politique publique d’aménagement ,Ecomotive transition ,Norway ,Transition écomobile ,Urbanity ,Public Space ,Ville omnimodale ,Urban planning public policies ,[SPI.GCIV.IT] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Civil Engineering/Infrastructures de transport ,Espace public ,Omnimodal city ,[SPI.GCIV.IT]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Civil Engineering/Infrastructures de transport ,Urbanité ,Mobilité urbaine durable ,Nordicité ,Norvège ,[SHS.ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management ,Nordicness ,Sustainable urban mobility - Abstract
By shifting from the “automobile city” paradigm to an omnimodal urban approach open to all transport modes, Norwegian cities entered a phase of ecomotive transition. This transition falls within the scope of a wider change of urban paradigm, from the modern urban planning model to the project of sustainable city. This dissertation reaches down to the historical roots of the transition and aims at understanding how it is inscribed and disseminated across Norwegian urban territories. In order to do so, a dual-scale analysis was carried out. This study intends to piece together the urban and transport planning policies which fuelled the transition on the national scale and at the level of its two major cities, Oslo and Tromsø. It is an attempt at understanding when and how the sustainable development paradigm translated into national and local planning policies, and the ways in which it echoed into the ecomotive transition process. The evolution of urban mobility usages in Norway is grasped, at various levels, through a statistical study completed by an observation work, carried out in Oslo and Tromsø with the aim of analysing the transition’s spatial translation in the public space. Moreover, a geo-historical retrospective places the transition against the backdrop of urban morphogenesis. This thesis highlights the intra-urban and inter-urban space-time discrepancies in terms of intensity and rhythm of the transition. It challenges the status of model, often labelled on the country. It revisits the visions which steered change, the difficulties which had to be overcome, the opportunities seized and the paradoxes of the Norwegian case. Placing it in a European perspective, this doctoral thesis also points out the singularities of the country when it comes to conceiving, sharing and appeasing the public space. This research reaches beyond the field of urban geography to leverage social geography as well. It widens the scope of reflection as it places the notion of sustainability in the Nordic sociocultural context. By questioning the relations between urbanity, “norwegianness” and “europeanness”, it reveals a new dimension of Norway’s ecomotive transition. The latter appears to meet a drive for urbanity through a process of “rehumanisation” or “europeanisation” of the city, relegating the environment as a secondary concern. The transition then becomes a conveyer of metropolisation for a peripheral society, culturally ill-at-ease with urbanity and concerned about its regional, European and global integration., En passant du paradigme de la « ville automobile » à une approche urbaine « omnimodale », ouverte à tous les modes de transports, les villes norvégiennes sont entrées dans une phase de transition écomobile. Celle-ci s’inscrit dans un changement de paradigme urbain, plus vaste, en passant du modèle de l’urbanisme moderne au projet de la ville durable. Cette thèse remonte aux origines historiques de la transition et tente de comprendre comment elle s’inscrit et se diffuse dans les territoires urbains norvégiens. Pour cela, une analyse à plusieurs échelles est menée. L’étude propose une reconstitution des politiques publiques urbaines d’aménagement et de transport, au service de la transition, à l’échelle du pays et de deux de ses grandes villes, Oslo et Tromsø. Elle tente de comprendre quand et comment le paradigme du développement durable a été traduit dans les politiques nationales et locales d’aménagement, et de quelle manière il est entré en résonance dans le processus de transition écomobile. L’évolution des pratiques de mobilité urbaine en Norvège est appréhendée, à différentes échelles, à travers une étude statistique, complétée par un travail d’observation, réalisé à Oslo et Tromsø, dont l’objectif est d’analyser la traduction spatiale de la transition, dans l’espace public. De plus, la rétrospective géohistorique menée dans ces deux villes replace la transition dans la morphogénèse urbaine. Cette thèse met en avant les décalages spatio-temporels, intra et interurbains, en matière d’intensité et de rythme de la transition. Elle remet en question le statut de modèle, souvent accordé au pays. Elle revient sur les visions qui ont orienté le changement, sur les difficultés surmontées, sur les opportunités saisies et sur les paradoxes du cas norvégien. Dans une mise en perspective européenne, cette thèse de doctorat pointe, également, les singularités de la Norvège en matière de conception, de partage et d’apaisement de l’espace public. Dépassant le champ de la géographie urbaine, cette recherche mobilise aussi la géographie sociale. Elle mène une réflexion plus large, en replaçant la notion de durabilité dans le contexte socioculturel nordique. En questionnant le rapport entre urbanité, « norvégianité » et « européanité », elle révèle une nouvelle dimension à la transition écomobile norvégienne. Celle-ci semble répondre à une volonté d’urbanité, à travers une « réhumanisation » ou une « européanisation » de la ville, reléguant l’environnement à une considération secondaire. La transition devient alors un vecteur de métropolisation, pour une société périphérique, culturellement mal à l’aise avec l’urbanité et soucieuse de son intégration régionale, européenne et mondiale.
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44. La métro-périurbanisation comme nouveau paradigme ?
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Émeline Bailly and Hervé Duret
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urbanity ,periurban spaces ,metropolization ,lifestyles ,landscape ,Social Sciences - Abstract
Stigmatized for a long time, the knowledge of the periurbanized spaces was essentially approached through a series of all-embracing, sometimes ideological presuppositions, ignoring the variety of the urban and social dynamics at work. Though, diversity of periurban spaces appears through a series of urban, functional and landscaped analyses on one hand, lifestyles on the other hand. Moreover, intertwined metropolitan and periurban development processes make possible a different look at the different periurban morphologies, spatially scattered lifestyles, polycentered phenomena and the identity representations. This interdependent dynamics between metropolises and periurban spaces brings us from then on to consider these “metro-periurban” entities as a viable frame for sustainable urban politics adapted to the social and urban realities in presence.
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45. Les quartiers fermés du Grand Caire. Dimensions urbanistiques et idéologiques d’une forme de ville : nouvelle urbanité ou césure urbaine ?
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Bénédicte Florin
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gated communities ,compounds ,Cairo ,fragmentation ,urbanity ,Political science ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 - Abstract
Today, the desert suburb of Cairo counts some one hundred gated communities, finished or under construction, called "compounds", produced by private real estate. This urban shape, introduced at the beginning of 1990s, results from an association between public actors and Egyptian or foreign businessmen; districts are heterogeneous both at the level of the degree of enclosure, the type of housing and their social composition. Originally, compounds were separated from other districts by a no-man’s-land desert but they are now interconnected by thousands of heterogeneous constructions: they multiply by two the surface of the city. However, the opposition between compounds and Cairo testifies of a symbolic, social and functional fragmentation which questions the Cairo based citizenship.
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46. Beyond urbanity : a geopsychological approach of sense of urbanity
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bisson, brieuc, Espaces et Sociétés (ESO), Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes (IGARUN), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Le Mans Université (UM), Université Rennes 2, Sandrine Depeau, Le Mans Université (UM)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université d'Angers (UA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes (IGARUN), and Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)
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Méthodologie ,Sentiment d'urbanité ,Sense of urbanity ,Urbanity ,Urban theories ,Urbanité ,Interdisciplinarity ,Methodology ,Interdisciplinarité ,[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,Théories urbaines - Abstract
Regarding the process of metropolisation and densification of urban areas, what sense should urbanity have from individuals’ point of view ? This PhD dissertation proposes a framework based on the individual dimension of relationships with the city. We focus on what we define as the « sense of urbanity », namely the emotional and cognitive state of an individual characterizing his relationship to urban spaces and/or the city. This state is variable and relative according to individuals components : individual urban practices, past residential journeys, space capital and individual representations of the city. In order to understand how this sense of urbanity is built at the individual scale, we opted for a two-step methodology based on commented photo trails and on an online questionnaire. This work highlights three levels in the way that individuals build their sense of urbanity : a collective level widely shared by individuals, a social level related to the social group (social belonging, generational belonging) and a level based on the individual experiences of the city. Through a comprehensive approach, this PhD dissertation proposes to compare established categories (city, urban) to the living word in order to build definitions and theoretical categories enriched with lived or perceived individual realities. This also comes down to answering the question what is urban in a fragmented urban world?; Face au processus de métropolisation et de densification des espaces urbains quel sens donner à l’urbanité du point de vue des individus? Dans le cadre d’une thèse portant précisément sur cette dimension individuelle des rapports à la ville, nous nous concentrons sur ce que nous définissons comme le sentiment d’urbanité, défini comme un état affectif et cognitif d’un individu caractérisant son rapport aux espaces urbains et/ou à la ville. Cet état est variable et relatif selon des composantes variables selon les individus : les pratiques urbaines individuelles, les parcours résidentiels passés, le capital spatial et les représentations individuelles de la ville. Afin de chercher à comprendre comment ce sentiment d’urbanité se construit chez les individus, nous avons opté pour une méthodologie en deux temps. Un premier temps consacré à des parcours photos commentés, puis un second temps consacré à un questionnaire en ligne. Ce travail permet de mettre en avant trois principaux niveaux de construction du sentiment d’urbanité chez les individus. Un premier niveau collectif très largement partagé par les individus, un second niveau plutôt social et fonction du groupe social (appartenance sociale, appartenance générationnelle) et un troisième niveau individuel fonction des expériences individuelles de la ville. L’objectif de cette thèse est aussi, par une approche compréhensive, de chercher à confronter des catégories établies (ville, urbain) à la parole habitante pour parvenir à bâtir des définitions et des catégories théoriques enrichies de réalités individuelles vécues ou perçues. Ce qui revient aussi à répondre à la question qu’est-ce qu’être urbain dans un monde urbain diffus ?
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47. L’urbain et le rural dans les discours de l’aménagement en Suisse
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Marius Schaffter
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urban ,rural ,discursive register ,prototype ,Switzerland ,urbanity ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Abstract
Within the context of local and regional planning in Switzerland, urban and rural categories no longer make up distinct entities. Different discursive registers on the opposition – in terms of functional, morphological, lifestyle and social features – no longer coincide, neither spatially, nor semantically. However, they still hold much normative and prescriptive value, most notably by means of symbolic objects, such as the village or the greenhouse.
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- 2011
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48. Modes d’habiter urbains et ruraux : entre continuité et rupture
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Samuel Carpentier
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mobility ,behaviors ,urban ,rural ,Luxembourg ,urbanity ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Abstract
The metropolization process marked the advent of a postmodern society in which the growing polarization of agglomerations on local space would lead to a levelling of lifestyles. The decades-old process of suburbanization illustrates the physical and social diffusion of urban features towards more and more distant spaces, which thus become dependent on the city-center. This paper therefore aims at exploring whether urban gradients can be identified when moving from the city to rural areas. Such gradients are a function of morphological features (most notably, density), and functional features (illustrated by mobility) characterizing those spaces. A typology of municipalities was developed so as to define types of residential anchoring. A survey (N=600) then allowed collecting data on mobility and housing practices and representations in Luxembourg in 2005, based on individuals’ residential area. Urban/rural relationships are therefore analyzed in terms of spatialization of lifestyles, conceived of as a function of the anchoring/mobility opposition. Results highlight behavioral gradients (in terms of practices and representations), which bear witness to some urban/rural continuity, as well as specifically rural aspects.
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49. Introduction
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Jeanne E. Glesener and Sonja Kmec
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urbanity ,rurality ,Europe ,suburbs ,planning ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Published
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50. Suburbs: the next slum? Explorations into the contested terrain of social construction and political discourse
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Markus Hesse
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discourse analysis ,Germany ,interpretative research paradigm ,suburbanization ,urbanity ,rurality ,Human ecology. Anthropogeography ,GF1-900 ,Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology ,HT101-395 - Abstract
Suburbanization and suburbia have not only represented a substantial component of urbanization for decades, but have also been subject to social construction and political contestation. This usually unfolds in highly critical assessments of suburban landscape by research, policy and planning. Thus, suburbs are discursively framed as dystopia, and as the demise of the urban as such. In light of most recent developments on real estate and energy markets, and taking into account an at least perceived ‘renaissance’ of inner cities in metropolitan regions, the image of suburbs has changed again. It now represents despair and decline, even the next slum. Such discursive representations are based on an urban view rather than on a solid exploration of suburbs, and are ideologically constructed. In this context, this paper builds on the discursive shift in urban views and aims at reconstructing the way suburbs have been perceived and discursively framed in the past. By focusing on German developments and a comparative (North American) perspective, it argues that discursive practice confirms the long-standing professional neglect of suburbs; however, this has not resulted in a paradigm shift in ‘material’ urban development as yet. The main contention is that the suburbs are neither heaven nor hell, neither paradise nor slum. They just represent an ordinary, legitimate part of the urban, a hybrid that still lacks precise denomination regarding terminology, meaning and identity.
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- 2010
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