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This paper focuses on the cases of several museums and memorials located within major cities (Berlin, Jerusalem, Montreal, Washington, Budapest and Paris). Building upon these examples, it explores the connections between the ...
The reports of a permanent rise of the urban population, a possible scarcity of oil in the future, a means of energy mainly used in the transportations of goods and an essential ...
The survey carried out on explicit representations of the future among the inhabitants of Geneva’s metropolitan area shows three major groups. The most substantial encompasses individuals that speak little about society as ...
International poor migrants have understood that they are not welcome in rich countries. Most of them — around 200 000 a year in France and 600 000 in Europe (OCDE 2013) — ...
L’effervescence de la linguistique contemporaine doit beaucoup aux travaux de Noam Chomsky. Les postulats de ce penseur n’en demeurent pas moins de simples réductionnismes, niant la complexité ayant induit tant la genèse ...
Far away from the promises of a better future, the ecological question provokes fears that are widely shared. It contributes to a negative form of a common future that remains nevertheless quite ...
The exhibition of outdoor art works in public areas leads to two main consequences. On the one hand the site where the work is displayed gains a new importance, on the other ...
Jean-Loup Amselle, anthropologue atypique, volontiers critique à l’égard de sa propre discipline, continue de poursuivre son analyse des pathologies de l’Occident et de déconstruire les illusions qui nous portent à fuir un ...
Cet article, qui combine le regard ethnographique avec l’analyse des politiques publiques et la géographie urbaine, cherche à documenter les politiques en direction des migrants roms en situation précaire en Île-de-France. Jusqu’à ...
Spatial planning seemed to be out of fashion but this very stimulating overview, based on case studies that focus on various European countries, shows that the deep transformation of territorial planning has ...
This article carries the constructivist idea to its logical conclusion. If space is always perceived in three dimensions and does not have a substance, why not consider social topics in the the ...
With her book Close up at a distance. Mapping, technology and politics, Laura Kurgan, Professor of architecture at Columbia University in New York city, interrogates the political, technical and ethical debates around ...
Physicists can be annoying when they attack social systems. For example, when one of them learnedly explains in Le Monde the very close result of several elections from the early 2000s using ...
This article presents a series of the findings from a combined visitor survey and GPS tracking study that was conducted in May and June 2013 in Paris. The mobility of the 129 ...
Geohistory of the French wine area (1808-2010) highlights, for the whole of the French territory, two cycles of growth and decline of vineyards. We can observe a period of wine transition (“transition ...
