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Cities are important sites of accumulation within capitalism, but also home for many humans and non-humans. Rock pigeons (Columba livia) are ubiquitous, but not always welcome, and are thus subjected to a variety of exclusionary tactics – including killing. On the other hand, charismatic non-humans like peregrine falcons (Falco perigrinus) are often encouraged to occupy prominent urban spaces by local government, conservation groups, businesses, and media. This paper explores how the presence of pigeons and falcons came to be valued differently within the urban context of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. I examine how the stories being told about falcons and pigeons play an important role in defining their value, in particular in relation to the city's role as a site of capitalist accumulation. Baltimore specific stories which posit pigeons as an ecologically important food source for falcons, and credit falcons with reducing urban pigeon populations imbue both species of non-humans with particular values in relation to one another. My analysis reveals that new values are placed on non-human death in the city through storytelling, and, in an imagined triumph of capitalism, the city is redeemed as a space of human and non-human flourishing in the face of anthropogenic environmental contamination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La plupart des études ayant été menées jusqu’à présent sur la topologie des romans policiers de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán portent sur l’espace urbain, même si ses œuvres s’inscrivent aussi, d’emblée, dans une dimension européenne et intercontinentale. La présente contribution examine donc comment la série reconstruit d’un point de vue espagnol, depuis les années 1970, les significations que revêt le sud de l’Europe. Comparant les romans plus anciens de l’auteur et son œuvre tardive, elle décrit l’évolution des attributions culturelles qui, au fil des déplacements du détective Pepe Carvalho, font du nord et du sud, de l’ouest et de l’est les points de repère d’une quête idéologique de sens.

Copyright of Anales de Geografía de la Universidad Complutense is the property of Universidad Complutense de Madrid and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This article reviews the studies made by different representative authors in the field of urban geography which propose an innovation focus as a growing factor in cities and their agents. It aims at identifying how to incorporate an innovation process in urban areas as a socioeconomic factor through which a relation between urban innovation and development generate new city restructuring to foster inclusion in all agent changes, promoting technological groups at all levels and establishing cities with huge technological advancement and key socioeconomic processes for development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Les problèmes de la croissance résidentielle et l'évolution du réseau routier entre 2002 et 2011. La période de l’explosion immobilière a déterminé, seulement en dix ans, le doublage de la surface occupée par la zone résidentielle du quartier de Pipera. Le développement dans un rythme plus lent de la texture de la rue a déterminé l’apparition d’une série de problèmes dans les nouveaux quartiers de villas qui se référent surtout { l’accessibilité difficile dans cette zone, mais aussi { l’infrastructure utilitaire. Pour représenter spatialement les zones avec des problèmes, on a réalise, { l’aide des techniques GIS, la Carte des discordances entre la dynamique résidentielle et celle du réseau de la rue entre 2002-2011. On a utilisé la relation de la soustraction entre l’évolution de la densité des maisons dans dix ans et l’évolution de l’accessibilité donnée par la texture de la rue. On a détermine l’accessibilité par le produit de la densité des voies et la qualité de celles-ci. Les zones avec des problèmes identifiés sur le terrain sont, surtout, les nouveaux quartiers des promoteurs immobiliers, avec une grande densité des villas.

The study of urbanization of the built up area on in Lyon, parceled out into plots of land, is based on the identification and counting of a large number of files and heterogeneous sources. One of the challenges in developing a new tool for analysis of the urban phenomenon consists in the integration of these data into a coherent system, thanks to a Geographical Information System. This new tool allows, in particular, to trace the suburban sprawl of residential and private housing estates since 1950 in all its forms: this phenomenon is relatively little studied, but nevertheless has a large impact on the development of Lyon’s conurbation.

The central theme of this article is based on the role of mega-events in the production of Rio de Janeiro's urban space in the early twentieth century. At this time, through considerable urban transformations, the image of the city was associated with "Paris of the Tropics." At the same time, the city hosted two important mega-events: the 1908 National Exhibition and the 1922 International Exhibition. These mega-events were configured as urban strategies promoted by State, and the territorial modernizations arising from the mega-events were highly selective and exclusive, producing even more elite places and socio-spatial segregation. Used as a pretext to urban expansion, production and the conquest of urban lands, the mega-events analyzed induced redefinitions of land uses and their arrangement in the internal space of the city, demonstrating their relevance in the structuring of the city of Rio de Janeiro. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While a tremendous amount of research has focused on the relationships between Aboriginal peoples and the natural environment, almost no attention has been paid to the importance of nature for Aboriginal people living in cities. Our exploratory research looks at the importance of nature for Aboriginal people living in Ottawa. Preliminary findings indicate that nature does play a very important role in their lives, and that reciprocal relationships with nature are practiced in a variety of ways. In addition, despite the fact that the people we spoke with tend to see the city as an artificial, human-constructed environment, various aspects of nature can be experienced in the city, something that blurs the conceptual dichotomy between these two spheres. Rather than attempting to provide definitive answers, we highlight the need for further research on the varied connections between Aboriginal people and nature in Canada's cities. La nature, les villes, les peuples : des perspectives autochtones sous étude Si de nombreux travaux de recherche s'intéressent aux relations que les peuples autochtones nouent avec l'environnement naturel, peu d'attention a été accordée jusqu'à maintenant à l'importance que revêt la nature pour les Autochtones vivant dans les villes. Cette recherche exploratoire analyse l'importance que revêt la nature pour les Autochtones vivant à Ottawa. Les résultats préliminaires montrent, d'une part, combien la nature joue en effet un rôle très important dans leur vie et, d'autre part, qu'ils entretiennent de diverses manières des relations réciproques avec la nature. Qui plus est, bien que les personnes avec qui nous nous sommes entretenus soient plutôt enclines à concevoir la ville comme un environnement artificiel construit par l'humain, la ville permet néanmoins d'explorer les diverses facettes de la nature. Il en ressort que la dichotomie conceptuelle entre ces deux milieux tend à s'estomper. Au lieu d'établir des conclusions, nous faisons valoir l'importance de poursuivre des recherches sur les liens diversifiés que les peuples autochtones tissent avec la nature dans les villes du Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes a comparative look at urban geography in the German- and English-speaking academic communities, based on a critical reflection of publication activities, sub-disciplinary discourses and conceptual developments. It is argued that Anglophone discourses tend to embed urban research into a broad range of conceptual and theoretical frameworks, whereas many writings in German-speaking urban geography are committed to pursuing empirical studies and applied research, thereby producing planning studies and policy recommendations; only recently, studies inspired by the cultural turn have evolved that are also addressing urban topics. In both language communities, a certain body of geographical work can be detected that deals with core urban themes without evolving from a distinct ‘urban geography’ community. In this context, a mutual trans-national dialogue between cultural, social and urban geographies is considered helpful for better linking the two different language and academic communities. Accordingly, the paper provides suggestions on how to reconceptualize urban geography at the intersections of recent debates in both language contexts by highlighting specific theoretical approaches, policy linkages and methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

[es] El trabajo recoge el desarrollo del Plan Especial de Protección y Reforma Interior de la ciudad de Salamanca, desde antecedentes, formulación y también algunas consideraciones respecto a sus resultados. [fr] Salamanca et son plan spécial de protection: un aménagement effectif pour la gestion du patrimoine. L'article nous montre le développement du Plan Spécial de Protection et Réforme Intérieure de la cité de Salamanque, depuis les antécédents et la formulation, ainsi que quelques considérations à propos de ses résultats.

The question we address in this article concerns the possible existence of specifically geographic processes that influence the propensity of Québec City knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms to innovate. In other words, after controlling for factors of innovation that are internal to the firm, does their neighbourhood-level environment within the Quebec census metropolitan area partly determine their propensity to innovate? More specifically, this study looks at whether proximity to certain types of economic activity -measured by their employment levels- is connected with innovation. We show that proximity effects do exist, but that these differ according to the type of innovation considered and according to the type of activity to which proximity is measured. Our results indicate that clusters including KIBS, manufacturing, and technical KIBS seem to benefit innovation. Service establishments are, however, more innovative when they are close to the centre of Quebec City, and remote from professional services and government. The nature of these results differs somewhat from those for Montreal-in particular there is no tendency for innovation to increase with the distance to the central business district (CBD). This suggests that the connection between intra-metropolitan location and KIBS innovation is dependent on specific metropolitan context, and does not therefore reflect easily generalisable processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Canadian cities are at a crossroads. The neoliberalization of governance at multiple scales, inadequate re-investment in urban infrastructure, increasing reliance on continental and international trade, and the restructuring of the space economy have combined to weaken Canada's cities just as the global economic system is undergoing transformation. Canadian urban geographic scholarship has much to offer under current conditions, and is already making significant contributions in key areas. In particular, research on what might be called the contours and impacts of urban restructuring and the neoliberal city, immigration and cities of difference, and urban environmental justice show much promise and are likely to define the core of Canadian urban geography into the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Madrid ha sido capital europea de la cultura en 1992, un hecho con una fuerte carga simbólica capaz de proyectar una imagen de la ciudad tanto en el exterior como en sus propios habitantes. En este contexto se analiza el espacio cultural del Madrid 92 y las principales actividades celebradas en el mismo. Se valora el impacto cultural de 1992 en una ciudad que por su tamaño y carácter de capital del Estado ya destacaba en esta especialización. [fr] Madrid a été la capital européene de la culture en 1992, un évenement avec un caractere symbolique tres fort et qui peut projeter una image de la ville tant a l'exterieur comme parmi les madrilenes. On étude l'espace culturel du Madrid 92 et les principaux activités qu'y ont lieu. On valorise l'impact culturel de l'an 1992 dans une ville qui a trois mil1ions d'habitants et qui est la capital de l'Espagne.

Colenutt R.J. (1968) Building linear predictive models for urban planning, Reg. Studies 2, 139–143. Because linear models are being used more often for predictive purposes in planning, it is essential that the underlying assumptions and limitations of these models are understood. A model can contain two basic types of error; measurement and specification error. These errors can accumulate as models are merged into larger model systems so that accurate prediction becomes increasingly difficult. Model evaluation is a further important aspect of model building and should include estimation of the sensitivity and stability of parameters. Despite their limitations the models are useful if designed and interpreted carefully. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Se pretende probar la validez de la prensa como fuente para el estudio del precio de las viviendas. Resulta especialmente útil a partir de los años sesenta. Todo ello a pesar de las limitaciones señaladas. Se compara con otras fuentes oficiales que también arrojan valores del precio del suelo como el índice sobre el incremento en el valor de los terrenos que edita el Ayuntamiento. [fr] Le objetif est essayer una source (announces immobilieres) pour obtenir la valeur du prix du demeure dans Málaga a partir des années soixante, et comparer avec d'autres sources officielles: Indice sur l'augmentation de la valeur des terrains qui edita l'aide.