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Access to public space for earning livelihoods is important for street vendors in global south cities. However, due to continuous population growth and the demand for lands by the real estate development sector, pressure on land is very high in the global south. Consequently, global south cities such as Dhaka provide 'no place' for its poor migrant citizens. Yet, the urban poor are able to appropriate public space for livelihoods. Drawing on a case study of Sattola slum in Dhaka, this article investigates how the urban poor access to public space for livelihoods and construct counter-spaces by breaking the planned order of the city. This article argues that the urban poor are able to construct counter-spaces with the tacit support of translocal social networks as well as with the support of a range of state and non-state powerful actors who are compromised by the benefits and profits they extract from vendors. This article draws on qualitative data generated through in-depth interviews with 94 informal workers and 37 key informants. This article contributes to urban sociology literature demonstrating that the urban poor are able to construct counter-spaces drawing on a range of everyday tactics and appropriating public space by quietly breaking the planned order of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Most Vancouver's suburban stock of purpose-built rental housing is aging, and there is concern that much of it could soon face redevelopment pressure. Previous research has demonstrated the importance of this stock for providing marginalized renters with naturally occurring affordable housing options, and the displacement of renters for redevelopment has been observed in certain Metro Vancouver neighbourhoods. Further, there is a shortage of affordable rental housing options in suburban Vancouver, which may be exacerbated by the demolition of the older stock. In late-2016 to early-2017 I conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with urban planners, politicians, real estate and housing professionals to collect a range of perspectives on the past, present and future of aging rental housing in Vancouver's suburbs. The key insights to emerge from this research are that the current rental stock is insufficient to meet demand, government policy may have contributed to a lack of supply, and expanding the supply of suburban rental housing will depend on maintaining a delicate balance between preservation and redevelopment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

518 arbres centenaires de ficus (Ficus retusa) d’Hussein Dey (Alger-Est) vers plusieurs sites dans le centre Algérois. Cette vaste opération de transplantation, la première du genre en Algérie a été réalisée février 2009. Juste après, l’opération a été renouvelée à Oran en septembre. Cette opération s’inscrit en droite ligne pour la préservation du patrimoine forestier, qui est devenue une priorité pour les collectivités locales et un objectif pour le développement urbain. La réussite de l’opération de transplantation, permet de sauvegarder un bon nombre de grands arbres des centres urbains qui cherchent à s'aménager ou à s'urbaniser. Cette opération réalisée dans l’urgence, en plus de l’embellissement du réseau routier et l’amélioration du cadre de vie des citoyens, avait pour but la lutte contre la pollution urbaine et une diminution considérable des températures estivales. L’opération doit respecter rigoureusement les consignes strictes d’exécution et de chronologie des différentes opérations techniques d’extraction, de transport, de plantation et de suivi. Le bilan de l’opération de transplantation de ficus (Ficus retusa) fait ressortir un taux de réussite qui varie de 47 à 97 % selon les sites.

The reshaping of the northern region of Morocco impacted not only the so-called informal economies and in particular the underground economies driven by the smuggling/cannabis/emigration trilogy, but also the economies of entertainment and sexual services (i.e. sex work). In Tangier, since the 2000s, under the influence of urban requalification policies in the city’s central districts, the social space and the territories of the sexual economy have undergone significant shifts. The urban planning interventions, which were regular between 2000 and 2015, affected the entertainment venues, where part of the city’s sex economy is deployed, and transformed the ways in which, on the one hand, the inhabitants of Tangier think and party (enjoy the urban nightlife) and, on the other hand, the ways in which sex work is organised and displayed. By looking back at the history and the changes in the sexual geography of Tangier, this article will show how the dynamics of economic and territorial reconfiguring in Tangier have contributed to the redefinition of the commercial practices of prostitution, which were often perceived in atemporal terms and devoid of any historical reference. It aims as well at showing how this has gradually led to the specification of sexual work in order to separate it more clearly from the practices of partying, where sexual and intimate concerns, with no visible economic relationship, are at the forefront of a “clean” and egalitarian nightlife in Tangier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Résumé: L'exposition au bruit en milieu urbain est la deuxième cause de morbidité en Europe, derrière la pollution de l'air. Or, les études d'impact de la pollution sonore consistent en une cartographie du bruit sur la ville, sans en étudier les effets sur les populations. Le Bureau européen de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) a présenté fin 2018 de nouvelles valeurs guides et des recommandations afin de protéger la santé humaine de l'exposition au bruit environnemental provenant de diverses sources (bruit des transports [trafics routier, ferroviaire et aérien], des éoliennes, des loisirs). Cet article présente la méthodologie à déployer pour réaliser une évaluation quantifiée des impacts sur la santé du bruit en milieu urbain. Elle repose sur les indicateurs énergétiques LAmax, Lnight, Lden et LAeq16h recommandés récemment par l'OMS et l'Union européenne, à partir des études épidémiologiques disponibles portant majoritairement sur le bruit des transports, et intègre les préconisations de l'Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail (Anses). Exposure to noise in urban areas is the second leading cause of morbidity in Europe, behind air pollution. However, current studies map noise in cities, without studying its effects on populations. In late 2018, the European Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) presented new guidelines and recommendations to protect human health from exposure to environmental noise from various sources: transport (road, rail, and air traffic), wind turbines and leisure. This article presents the recommended methodology for conducting a quantitative health impact assessment study of noise in urban areas. It is based on the LAmax, Lnight, Lden, and LAeq16h indicators recently recommended by the WHO and the European Union, from the available epidemiological studies mainly relating to transport noise, and incorporates the recommendations of the National health safety agency for food, environment and work (Anses). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A Genève, la zone d'habitat à faible densité occupe près de 40 % des zones à bâtir du canton, mais ne loge qu'environ 12 % de la population. Sous l'impulsion des politiques publiques fédérales et cantonales, un usage plus rationnel du sol est préconisé. Les zones à bâtir doivent donc être densifiées pour accueillir le développement urbain, évitant ainsi d'empiéter sur la zone agricole. Dans cette perspective, le canton de Genève a modifié en 2013 sa législation concernant ces zones, autorisant des densités nettement plus élevées qu'auparavant. Cela a certes permis d'augmenter le nombre de logements, mais au détriment de la qualité environnementale, écologique et paysagère de ces quartiers résidentiels, souvent richement arborés. Les communes ont toutefois la possibilité de fixer un cadre à ce développement en définissant dans leur plan directeur communal une « stratégie d'évolution de la zones villas ». L'article illustre les dispositifs déployés afin de non seulement assurer la préservation des continuités biologiques, mais aussi de les reconstituer là où elles ont disparu. La densification de la zone villas devient ainsi un levier pour reconstituer des trames paysagères et biologiques, là où elles n'existent plus ou sont menacées par une urbanisation diffuse.

The Algiers tram project required enormous urban development along its route, including the relocation of 518 hundred-year-old Ficus (Ficus retusa) trees from Hussein Dey (Algiers-East) to several sites in central Algiers. This vast transplant operation, the first of its kind in Algeria, carried out in February 2009. Immediately after, the operation was repeated in Oran in September. This operation is in line with the preservation of the forest heritage, which has become a priority for local communities and an objective for urban development. The success of the transplant operation makes it possible to save a good number of large trees in urban centres' seeking to develop or urbanize. This emergency operation led to a fight against urban pollution, the improvement of the road network, the considerable reduction in summer temperatures and the improvement of the living environment of citizens. The success of the operation must strictly adhere to the strict instructions for the execution and timing of the various technical operations of extraction, transport, planting and monitoring. The assessment of the ficus (Ficus retusa) transplantation operation shows a success rate that varies from 47 to 97% depending on the site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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De nombreux outils et méthodes sont aujourd’hui développés ou en cours de développement pour accompagner la transition énergétique et climatique à l’échelle de l’aménagement urbain. Agir à cette échelle nécessite de comprendre quels sont les leviers « physiques » qui auront un impact évident sur la capacité d’un aménagement urbain à répondre positivement aux contraintes énergétiques et climatiques mais également de comprendre les mécanismes décisionnels, les jeux d’acteurs, qui agiront sur ces leviers « physiques ». Plusieurs verrous limitent une prise en compte de l’enjeu énergétique au sein des projets d’aménagement urbain. Un premier verrou concerne le développement massif et pluriel des modèles traitant de l’énergie en ville mais dont l’opérationnalité reste à démontrer. Le deuxième verrou concerne la capacité des outils développés à répondre aux besoins des concepteurs et décideurs. Le troisième verrou abordé dans cet article concerne la place non stratégique de l’énergie à l’échelle du projet d’aménagement.

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At the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, numerous spaces appeared in Berlin and these spaces were used as laboratories for new sociocultural practices. We are analyzing with some examples (RAW-Tempel, Brotfabrik and Tacheles) how the actors of the sociocultural scene of the ex East Berlin describe their own activities, the narratives they use to talk about the space they invest far away from the initial use. One of the conclusions is that for them, the space is not only a topography, it also has a sense, a particular meaning intrinsically connected to these space. This is a symbolic appropriation of the in-between, witch tends to develop a correspondence between the interstitial urban grounds and new sociocultural practices.

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From Shanghai to London via Rio de Janeiro, the waterfronts and river fronts of cities have become the window of their new ambitions and spaces of sociability where the function of walk has become central. In the case of the city of Rabat in Morocco, it was not until the beginning of the 21 st century that the banks of the Bouregreg became a site for walking, a place to visit, a place to live, a palce to meet and a scene where to see and be seen. From the observation of the circulations and the interactions, we will question the walk as a form of urban expression based on movement, a sort of "ambulatory urbanity ", in which the bodies intersect and escape according to precise codes, implementing a new choreographies and geographies. We will also interrogate this place produced according to the new international standards of metropolises and tourism, as a "geosymbol of an urbanity " and a cosmopolitan sociability that is both inclusive and exclusive where women and young couples take a place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’accroissement démographique rapide des villes au sud de la méditerranée s’est accompagné d’une urbanisation consommatrice de terres fertiles. Toutefois des espaces interstitiels difficilement constructibles, entre les espaces construits, hébergent encore des exploitations agricoles. C’est le cas notamment des 3 vallées traversant l’agglomération de Meknès, au Maroc. Sur la base d’enquêtes auprès de 80 agriculteurs et 42 consommateurs et d’entretiens avec des décideurs et commerçants de cette ville, nous avons montré la diversité des systèmes de production présents dans la ville (maraîchage et élevage laitier et à viande principalement). Malgré la proximité de la ville, peu de produits sont vendus directement aux consommateurs. Dans le cas du maraîchage, une action urgente est à engager pour fournir de l’eau d’irrigation de qualité aux agriculteurs de ces vallées afin qu’ils renoncent au détournement des eaux usées produites par la ville. Les meilleurs atouts de l’agriculture dans les villes au sud de la Méditerranée sont d’une part de rendre possible l’existence de paysages verdoyants et ouverts permettant d’améliorer le bien-être des citadins et l’attractivité touristique de ces villes et d’autre part l’intérêt récent de citadins pour des produits de qualité vendus en circuit court.

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Recovery and conservation of urban river areas must be inserted within the processes of territorial and sectoral management. This paper analyses the evolution and changes in urban river areas in Andalusia during the last decades, through the analysis of several plans. To study the relations between territorial and sectoral planning and urban river areas it has been made a compilation of currently approved or pending documents. The paper highlights the progress in water management over the period, but also the inertias, resistances and new problems associated. The effort for the management of urban river areas has not been reflected in the results, being the interrelationships between water and land management (regional, sub regional and municipal) still an unresolved issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A growing literature on contested urban politics has revealed the political agency of seemingly marginal urban residents, including those experiencing the threat of eviction. Yet with much of this work highlighting single instances of successful resistance, the agency of informal urbanites can be overstated and much of what is understood as resistance may actually be confinement. This article addresses this issue by situating an ethnographic analysis of residential evictions in Delhi and Mumbai in historical perspective. Analyzing the character of insecurity since the 1950s, it demonstrates that historically rooted antagonisms and mobilized responses to insecurity have produced political stalemate. The comparative analysis reveals that while evictions in Delhi and Mumbai today occur in places with different histories and characters of insecurity, ongoing contestations between residents, activists, and local government in both cities have produced similar conditions of confinement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article orbits two mandated mobilities: moving on and finding shelter – one continual and one oriented toward confinement. Reporting ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Denver, a city that recently outlawed camping in all open space, this article builds a model of spatial confinement. The article argues that, in concert with other quality of life laws, poverty management sequesters Denver’s poor in what the authors term a spatiotemporal camp, a fluid zone produced by delimiting self-reliance and truncating the ability of individuals to relate to social and physical environments. Incorporating both Agamben’s notion of homo sacer and his conceptualization of the camp with other concepts of the camp derived from theories of abnormality, the authors argue that in effect poverty management measures in Denver simultaneously disperse, concentrate, and conceal its homeless citizens. Because it deprives the undomiciled of the autonomy necessary to conjure home-like spaces, poverty management may exacerbate homelessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose is to consider the different meanings of the expression "new city". The latter suggests, at least for the Algerian context, a double interpretation: the future city on the one hand, the city of the future on the other hand. Beyond these language subtleties, the problem deals, for the first interpretation, with the process of production of the city as well with its context (geographic, but also economic and political). This requires understanding both the power relationships that characterizes the production, and the "governance" processes. However, the second interpretation suggests a fantasized city, able by itself to make a leap into the future, considering that it is simultaneously subject to some marketing operations rooted in the present time. This paper wishes to distinguish the visions of researchers to those of project managers on new cities. It makes a distinction between visions that focus on the global context of integration of the new city, and those that lock the debate in the intra muros imposed limits. It distinguishes furthermore the visions that implement procedures related to the existing rules of the game, and those that seek to identify the stakes, mainly hidden, of the urban projects, which are often tucked into a range of trendy and catch-all vocabularies by their developers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than a decade after the launch of a "new towns Program" in Morocco by the Ministry of Housing and Town Planning (2004), the purpose of our article is to provide an overview of this policy. To do this, three inputs are borrowed. First, it is to check whether the terms of its genesis, the powers of its initiator and responsible for project management, ad hoc arrangements (legal and institutional) engaged have given these officials the ability to lead this program efficiently. Second, the ambitious objectives announced and carried by the official discourse, particularly with regard to demographics, urbans and environmentals aspects are related to their current realities. Finally, the conflicts that reveal when conducting projects in the program are analyzed as indicators of malfunctioning governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ambition of this article is to explain the "manufacture" of a new city emerged in the last twenty years on the outskirts of the Algerian city of Constantine. From the example of the new city Mendjeli Ali, this work tries to put the focus on the contribution of private actors, ordinary citizens and tradespeople, the production of space trying to overcome the previous simplistic approaches leading to realize more or less faithfully and obediently official objectives of the administration responsible for urban policy. It pays special attention to microbial practices spaces, to games of inhabitants representations and to modes of living by focusing on the fine scale of the neighborhood and the temporality of everyday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An immense program of new towns was announced in 2004 by the Department of the Housing environment and the Town planning with as ambition to ease congestion in big cities and to reduce the considerable deficit in social housing. After eight years of its begening, it seems that the realizations are clearly lower compared with the ambitions in the point to arouse lively reactions on behalf of the political, economic and associative authorities. The analysis of the process of its implementation, focused on the example of Tamesna, allowed to rerelease the diverse technical and legal obstacles having marked its realization but also a set of contradictions which are revealing of a crisis of governance in the management of this public strategy. In spite of this numerous obstacles, it is to underline the stubbornness of the Department to continue the program with the announcement of creation of new operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Les espaces de nature en ville sont porteurs de l'amélioration de la qualité de vie en milieu urbain. En 2014, la ville de Strasbourg a initié un projet d'identification et de construction d'un tissu naturel urbain (TNU) mettant en connexion les espaces de nature existants à l'aide de graphes paysagers fondés sur le cheminement d'un animal. La connectivité du paysage a été déterminée sur la base de la définition de l'habitat optimal de l'Écureuil roux (Sciurus vulgaris), de ses préférences de déplacement et de sa mobilité en ville. L'objectif de cet article est de présenter notre démarche originale pour identifier les liens les plus favorables, évaluer l'importance de certaines taches d'habitat et décrire une connectivité potentielle à l'échelle de la ville de Strasbourg. La modélisation de réseaux écologiques s'avère être un outil de diagnostic efficace pour comprendre les enjeux de la connectivité ainsi qu'un outil de prospective pour orienter sur le long terme les politiques d'aménagement du territoire.

La création de nouveaux écosystèmes est un complément à la conservation et à la restauration pour lutter contre l'érosion de la biodiversité. En milieu urbain, les toits constituent une bonne opportunité pour le tester. Les techniques doivent cependant s'inspirer des habitats naturels écologiquement proches. Tout d'abord, des inventaires botaniques ont donc été réalisés dans le sud-est de la France permettant de recenser plusieurs centaines d'espèces végétales utilisables sur les toits en climat méditerranéen. Parmi celles-ci, 80% ne sont toujours pas commercialement utilisées surtout les espèces annuelles. Un processus de tri a ensuite été développé à partir de l'utilisation des traits fonctionnels accessibles dans les bases de données. Trente-quatre espèces ont alors obtenu les meilleurs scores permettant d'en tester dix-huit dont les graines étaient facilement disponibles. Fin 2012, des toits végétalisés expérimentaux ont été construits à Avignon et Heverlee (Belgique) où variaient la profondeur du substrat et l'exposition. Après deux années de suivi, les situations avec le substrat le plus épais et l'ombrage ont présenté des recouvrements et richesse en espèces les plus importants. Dans tous les cas, une persistance des nouvelles communautés végétales créées a cependant été mesurée après les périodes estivales et hivernales grâce aux capacités de régénération des espèces annuelles permettant de prédire leur durabilité sur le long terme.

Chaque ville possède des zones dépourvues de circulation humaine durant le jour ou la nuit. Par la réclusion qu’ils comportent, ces lieux rendent vulnérables quiconque s’y aventure et particulièrement les femmes. Afin de remédier à cette situation, l’organisme Conscience Urbaine fait le pari qu’en modifiant un lieu par l’art, cela changera les perceptions, augmentera la fréquentation et par conséquent la sécurité du lieu. Plus qu’un simple projet d’art dans l’espace public, on parle d’une action concertée qui repose sur la coopération des différents acteurs pouvant agir sur le lieu. Nous avons suivi les projets de Conscience urbaine durant l’été et l’automne 2015 pour comprendre comment ceux-ci pouvaient s’inscrire dans une démarche d’innovation sociale. Nous avons également observé la démarche du point de vue des modèles des changements profonds pour parvenir à comprendre ce qui freinait ou alimentait l’innovation et la créativité dans le processus d’action de l’organisme.

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Since the 1980s many plans have been passed to restore Spain's urban riverfronts. This policy has focused above all on the planning of large cities standing on rivers (including Sevilla, Valencia and Zaragoza), but it has also had a notable impact, albeit less widely reported, on small and medium-sized towns with large riverfronts or sizeable zones of river-city interaction. In this paper, we analyse such a case of river-city interaction in the town of Manlleu, a settlement of some 20,000 inhabitants located on the middle reaches of the River Ter, in the north of the district of Osona in the province of Barcelona, and with one of the largest riverfronts in the whole basin. Specifically, we seek to analyse the extent to which the urban planning implemented since the 1960s has guided the organisation of the river and urban environments considered as an individual unit. Measures such as the substitution of urban horticultural plots with an ambitious river walkway and a town park are the subject of specific attention. We also examine the town's flood risk management program and the construction of a retaining wall in response to the 1940 autumn flood, and we discuss an urban conflict that has implications for both the river and the town in a highly symbolic part of the town centred on the river meander of La Devesa. In short, we find that, in the case of Manlleu, the increasing environmental awareness shown by the plans analysed has favoured the transformation of the town's riverfront into an element of fundamental importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Les plantes responsables d'allergies respiratoires sont principalement situées dans les climats tempérés et méditerranéens. Ce sont des plantes anémophiles dont le pollen est transporté par le vent. L'évolution climatique, en particulier dans les villes où plus des 2/3 de la population vivront à l'horizon 2050 risque de modifier cette distribution, de renforcer les allergies et d'en créer de nouvelles. Les allergies doivent être prises en compte dans les politiques d'aménagement urbain. The plants responsible for respiratory allergies are mainly located in temperate and Mediterranean climates. They are anemophilous plants whose pollen is carried by the wind. Climate change, especially in cities where more than 2/3 of the population will live by 2050, is likely to change this distribution, to reinforce allergies and to create new ones. Allergies must be taken into account in urban planning policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

First the article explains what are the different processes to organize a World Exposition, then it shows that in Shanghai it was done in such a way that the emphasis was more on China facing its own history and its own population rather than China facing the world. « Shanghai Expo 2010 » was a huge popular fair which did not provide many hints for the future urban planning.

In many cases, urban planning of public spaces aims at “pacifying” automobile traffic in such a way as to improve the living environment (less noise, less pollution), to achieve a more equitable sharing of the street amongst its various users and, above all, to provide a high level of security for those who are the most vulnerable. This development is to be seen in the speed- controlled “Zones 30,” which are widespread in French cities. The question we ask in the present article is whether, by reducing the speed and the number of automobiles, we are also making a positive contribution to the issues linked to sustainable transportation, including that of promoting walking per se. And what impact does it have on the more specific problem of child mobility which, as we know is essentially characterized by a low level of independent urban displacement and a major dependence on car travel? In other words, does the introduction into the neighborhood of a Zone 30 allow children to move around more autonomously, to walk more? To answer this question a series of non-participant observations were carried out in different Zone 30 areas in Paris.