Les aéroports sont-ils des centres commerciaux ? Le développement mondial des boutiques d'aéroport

2007

Transports

2012

Entre mers et îles : l’intégration de l’archipel philippin par les transports maritimes

2015

International audience

Challenges and strategies for sustainable urban development in Paris, France and Manila, Philippines

2014

La construction d'identités locales par la promotion touristique dans les Etats d'Indiana et Kentucky

2010

Emerging Tiger? The Paradoxes of the Philippine Economy

2017

The Republic of the Philippines is an exception in the East and Southeast Asia realm. One of the richest countries of the region at the end of World War II, its rankings have slipped, and its growth rates have been weak for several decades. We examine the main causes of the mediocre economic performance of the country since the 1950s. Many analysts have pointed out an excessive bureaucracy, high levels of corruption and the lack of industrial investment in a country dominated by landed interests. After the high debt incurred during the Marcos administration, Philippine leaders have made every effort to improve the debt situation, choosing to pay back loans, but under investing in infrastruc…

The Transportation Experience, 2nd ed., by William L.Garrison and David M.Levinson. 2014. New York: Oxford University Press. 605 + xxiv. ISBN: 978-0-…

2014

L’avenir des Philippines. Un archipel dans la mondialisation

2016

International audience

The Diversity of the Philippine Population

2017

A country of many islands, the Philippines is also a country of many languages. The Tagalog language of Manila has been chosen as the base of the national Pilipino language, even if Cebuano counts as many speakers. The languages of the Philippines have common grammatical structures, but wide differences in vocabulary. Contrary to Latin America where Spanish and Portuguese became the dominant languages, Spanish did not dominate the local languages, since colonial priests preferred to learn local languages rather than teaching Spanish to their flocks. English, as the second colonial language, is spoken much more, since the Americans educated Filipinos in English as part of their “benevolent a…

Environmental Challenges in the Philippines

2017

The Republic of the Philippines is one of most exposed countries in the world to many “natural” hazards: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, lahar flows, typhoons, flooding, landslides, and sea level rise. Earthquake risks make Metro Manila especially vulnerable, due to the high population density and the poor quality of buildings, partly linked to corruption. This chapter examines the current policies to reduce risk in the metropolis and the scales of vulnerability, both at the national, regional, community and individual levels, focusing on the resilience of people and society when confronted with danger. Their vulnerability is heightened with several forms of environmental degradat…

La mondialisation

2018

Quels sont les mécanismes et les rouages de la mondialisation ? Fondé sur les réflexions d'historiens, d'économistes, de sociologues et de géographes, cet essai montre que loin d'uniformiser le monde, la mondialisation crée de nouvelles inégalités économiques, sociales et spatiales.Dans notre monde en perpétuel mouvement, des hommes (migrants et touristes), des marchandises, des capitaux, des idées et des lieux clés s'imposent tandis que d'autres espaces sont en retrait. Les mécanismes institutionnels de la mondialisation se heurtent d'autre part au sein des sociétés humaines à différentes formes de résistances : défense de traditions alimentaires, mouvements altermondialistes, ou même déri…

Dealing with urban congestion : Streetcars or BRT ?

2010

La relation ville-port dans la ville asiatique

2014

National audience

China’s urban century. Governance, environment and socio-economic imperatives

2019

A Tropical Archipelago

2017

The tropical maritime climate of the Philippines is marked by high temperature and abundant rainfall. The chapter first examines the major characteristics of the climate, dominated by the seasonal alternation of the Amihan and Habagat monsoons, leading to sharp differences between regions for their patterns of rainy seasons. Typhoons from the western Pacific hit the islands with brutal force, even if some years are more prone than others to the onslaught of tropical storms, depending on the general atmospheric circulation and the strength—or absence—of El Nino or La Nina. Typhoons not directly hitting the Philippines can still generate high levels of rainfall and enhance flooding, due to th…

Moving around the Philippines : challenges and dynamics of mobility in a developing country

2012

International audience

Changing mobilities in Asian cities

2010

International audience; Asian countries have experienced tremendous changes in their mobility patterns in recent years. As economic development has allowed a rise in the standards of living of a god part of the population, the rate of motorzation has increased very quickly. At the sametime, cities populations continue to grow at a fast pace, and the spread of the urbanized area requires more and more to be able to travel on distances too long for walking or even bicycling. Given the high density of many central cities, and the concentration of economic activity, this had led to major problems of urban congestion and pollution. National and local governments have tried to solve some of the p…

Old West, New West : les mutations d'un label régional

2006

Le rapport à la rive fluviale dans les villes du bassin du Mississippi, Etats-Unis

2010

Nombre de villes de l'intérieur des Etats-Unis sont nées au bord de cours d'eau, qui ont servi de voie de pénétration de l'intérieur du continent (Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio) avant les chemins de fer. Les fleuves présentent aussi de redoutables obstacles, par leurs embûches interrompant la navigation et fixant des sites de villes aux points de transbordement (chutes St Anthony de Minneapolis sur le Mississippi, chutes de l'Ohio à Louisville) e t par leurs sautes d'humeur (étiages et crues menaçantes). Aujourd'hui, si les travaux de l'US Army Corps of Engineers ont plus ou moins maîtrisé les cours d'eau, le rapport des villes avec leur fleuve présente des variations importantes. La mise en …

Les transports dans la puissance américaine

2010

Global Pinoys: The Archipelago of Migration

2017

The Republic of the Philippines is one of the top exporters of migrant labor throughout the world. Millions of Filipino overseas workers can be found in North America, the Middle East, Western Europe, Australia and Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Malaysia). Since the 1970s, the Philippine government has encouraged labor migration as a way to alleviate unemployment at home and to gather remittances used to boost spending in the domestic economy. The government’s Philippine Overseas Employment Agency manages the implementation of labor agreements with partner countries and exerts some control on the myriad of private agencies recruiting Philippine labor for foreign jobs. Many expatr…

Les défis du tourisme aux Philippines

2017

National audience

100 Million Filipinos

2017

The Philippine archipelago, with more than 100 million inhabitants, is the 12th most populous in the world, one the fastest growing and youngest countries in Asia, and will soon overtake an aging Japan. Causes of the high rate of population growth include the teachings of the influential Philippine Catholic Church (no divorce, contraception or abortion) and the active sexual life of young Filipinos. Many women become pregnant at a very early age, soon after puberty. The country has not developed population control policies as some other countries (Thailand, China) have. Therefore it has a very young population with few elderly people, a situation that may be good for the economy (demographi…

Battling congestion in Manila : the EDSA problem

2013

National audience

Moving around the Philippines

2012

International audience; Visitors to Manila are quickly aware of the traffic jams and impediments to efficient transport within the capital region of the Philippines. Hours seem to be lost in traffic, and public transportation is very crowded. What are the reasons for these difficulties? Poor planning, lack of enforcement of the rules of circulation, an excessive rate of motorization, an insufficient development of quality public transit? What should be the role of "informal" transport (trisikel, pedicab, jeepneys) in a system of mobilities that should remain fair to all, rich and poor alike? The same set of questions arises for the mobility across the country. As an archipelago, and a count…

Urban governance in Manila, Philippines

2014

International audience

Le transport aérien en Chine

2013

International audience

Toyota et les constructeurs automobiles japonais à la conquête du monde

2008

Managing Metro Manila

2017

Metro Manila residents are confronted everyday with the challenges of flooding, substandard housing and horrendous traffic. In this low altitude plain, any significant rainfall raises water levels in many small streams, and contributes to traffic jams. The rapid population growth of the metropolis has led to the proliferation of squatter areas, including alongside flood-prone rivers and railroad tracks. The lack of discipline and of decent garbage management contribute in turn to a worsening of floods when streams are covered with litter. The fast rise in motorization rates, coupled with the many imperfections of the public transport system, make Manila one of the most congested cities in t…

The Use and Abuse of Sea Resources

2017

As a maritime country, the Philippines is a place of high fish consumption. Many coastal villages are populated by fishermen, who are amongst the poorest of working Filipinos. International comparisons show that the Philippine fisheries sector is mostly characterized by small inefficient fishing vessels, while some of the fishing methods are extremely destructive to the resource. Today, fishing moratoriums must be imposed in some areas to allow the reproduction of the fish. Poaching and illegal fisheries, including by foreign vessels, especially from China, plague the most important fisheries areas. Aquaculture has developed to counterbalance the decline of the natural resource, but it has …

Book review

2012

Industry vs. Services

2017

This chapter examines the difficulties of the country to emerge as an industrial power, despite the rich mineralization of the country, which has given birth to a proliferation of mines and conflicts focusing on the environmental and social consequences of mining. More than the lack of abundant energy reserves, the choices of the economic and political leaders have not been conducive to an industrial takeoff similar to neighboring countries. The steel and garment industries have never been very strong, the automobile cluster of Laguna province is much less impressive than what is seen in Thailand, and the high-tech industry works mostly for foreign companies, in the absence of any major ind…

Metro Manila’s Challenges: Flooding, Housing and Mobility

2014

Among the many challenges faced by MetroManila, the National Capital Region of the Philippines, three appear as the most pressing issues for the everydaylife of its citizens: housing, flooding and traffic. The rapid increase in population of the metropolitan area had led to a mushrooming of substandard housing and squatting, sometimes in danger areas such as waterways and transport lanes. In a tropical context of heavy monsoon rains and frequent typhoons, riverside slums impeding the flow of water appear as one of the reasons—not the only one—why Manila floods, when at the same time people are placed at high risk. Coupled with a lack of available space throughout the metropolis, the high po…

South China Sea or West Philippine Sea?

2017

The South China Sea (“West Philippine Sea”) has been for several years a space of potential conflict between several countries due to overlapping of their EEZs and China’s claim of a large part of this oceanic space, well beyond its UN-endorsed EEZ. The Spratly islets and Scarborough shoal are mere coral reefs, uninhabited for the most part, but they lie in the middle of rich fishing grounds and atop large reserves of petroleum and natural gas. Furthermore, the area is one of the world’s busiest sea lanes for commercial navigation. This chapter presents the general rules of UNCLOS (international laws pertaining to oceanic space), and then examines the competing claims, focusing on the China…

The Spanish Creation of the Philippines: The Birth of a Nation

2017

This chapter examines the human background of the country from its early settlement to the end of the Spanish colonial era. Different theories have been presented to explain the initial settlement of the country. The Austronesian societies developed a social structure and patterns of commerce that were not completely erased by the Spanish colonization following the discovery travels of Magellan and others, and the conquest of the islands by Legazpi in the sixteenth century. Spanish control meant the imposition of the Catholic Church as a powerful element of organization in the countryside, and the development of cities following colonial Spanish guidelines. Manila was central to a large mar…

Activity report of the French transportation geographers

2010

The Transportation Commission of the Comité National Français de Géographie (led by president J. Varlet, Université de Savoie in Chambéry, and secretary M.-A. Lanneaux, University of Lille) is made up of 46 members as of June 1st, 2010, not including a number of geographers not registered with the Commission but doing research in transportation.

Transports et mobilités dans les grandes villes d'Asie

2009

Louisville, métropole du Kentucky

2005

Regional Development Policies in the Philippines

2017

Is Manila too big for the Philippines? Should the government encourage the development of other areas to relieve the burden on the capital region? This chapter examines the efforts of successive Philippine governments to implement a policy of regional planning for a more balanced development of the country. Integrated development schemes, for example in the Bicol River basin, have given way to a policy in favor of special economic zones and growth centers away from Metro Manila. Among them, the Subic and Clark areas, long known as gigantic American military facilities, are now the focus of an effort to create better business and living environments. Cebu, the Philippines’ second city, is al…

Questions de gouvernance urbaine à Manille

2014

International audience

Le taux d'urbanisation de la Chine

2009

International audience; Un problème majeur de la géographie urbaine de la Chine est la difficulté de définir ce qui est " urbain ". En effet, les " villes " comprennent des espaces ruraux agricoles. Les "municipalités" étaient censées être autosuffisantes à partir du Grand Bond en Avant de 1958, et leur assise géographique s'étend donc bien au-delà de l'espace densément bâti pour inclure un espace de production alimentaire tourné vers la ville qui en est le centre. "Pékin" comporte 3,1 millions de ruraux et "Shanghai" 2 millions... Les statistiques ne sont pas toujours claires en ce qui concerne le type de résidents inclus ou non dans la population "urbaine", laissant perplexes même les che…

BRT in the Philippines: A Solution to Manila and Cebu Traffic Problems?

2019

Abstract Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), where buses run on dedicated roads at high frequency, almost in a metrorail manner, has been adopted as a backbone of urban mobility in the cities of many developing countries. Originally developed in South America (Curitiba, Brazil and Bogotá, Colombia), it has entered Asia with force, from Indonesia (Jakarta’s Transjakarta) to India and China. In the case of the Philippines, where intercity bus transportation is widely used due to the current lack of a railway network, city traffic, especially in Manila, is heavily congested, partly due to a high number of city buses running half-empty, the small proportion of road space relative to the vehicle population…

Dynamiques contemporaines du transport maritime et des ports de commerce

2011

Airport development and metropolitan planning in Hong Kong

2019

Hong Kong, one of the world’s major international airports, has responded to the challenge of congestion of an airport too small for a growing air traffic by building a new efficient airport, thus opening the way for a reconversion of the old airport site. This has allowed Hong Kong to strengthen its position as a global hub for air freight and international passengers, while being a core element of the ongoing spatial restructuration of the Pearl River delta, including a new town next to the airport and an intermodal center at the end of the HKMZ bridge-tunnel from Macau.

Transport maritime et mondialisation

2006

Developing Asian cities and the automobile

2011

Le hukou

2009

Le " hukou " (de " hu " = foyer et " kou " = résident, qu'on pourrait traduire par les expressions " livret d'enregistrement de résidence " ou " système d'enregistrement des ménages ") est le principal document d'identité d'un Chinois. Il se situe dans la continuité d'une tradition ancienne de l'Empire chinois de volonté de contrôle des mouvements de population. Créé en 1951 pour les villes, en 1955 pour les campagnes, selon le modèle de la " propiska " (passeport intérieur soviétique), le hukou indique le lieu de résidence officiel d'une personne, classée rurale ou urbaine. Les agriculteurs en zone urbaine disposent d'un hukou rural. Les enfants héritent du hukou de leur mère. Familles rur…

Mondialisation et territoires : l''exemple des Etats-Unis

2008

Pedestrian space in Asian cities; loss of public spaces in western hemisphere (mobility, PPP, privatisation) also in Asian cities?

2013

International audience

Do not Californize Oregon ! La Los Angelization : perceptions et réalités d'un mode "californien" d'étalement urbain aux Etats-Unis

2004

Spatial Structures of the Philippines: Urbanization and Regional Inequalities

2017

This chapter examines the fundamental spatial structures of the Philippines. It defines the role and organization of the different levels of the administrative hierarchy (provinces, regions, cities and municipalities) down to the barangay and sitio/purok levels. This leads to the definition of the “urban” in the Philippines and the rise of urbanization in recent decades, from the original urban settlements of the Spanish era, with their patterns following the same rules as in Latin America (fort, church and plaza), to today’s cities. Forms of housing have evolved over time, from the archetypal bamboo/nipa hut (bahay kubo) and the urban stone and wood house of the elites (bahay na bato), now…

High-speed rail and French cities

2011

Activity Report of the French Transport Geographers

2007

International audience; The 2007 Répertoire des Géographes Français shows 97 geographers (on a total of 2084 listed people) working in the transportation field. The Commission de Géographie des Transports meets every year in mid-September for a thematic conference: Cergy-Pontoise in 2004 (transportation nodes), Besançon in 2005 (inter-regional transportation networks), Chambéry in 2006 (tourism and transportation, co- organized with the Commission de Géographie du Tourisme). In addition, the main theme of the 2005 Festival de Géographie in Saint Dié-des-Vosges, "World in networks", allowed many transportation geographers to present their research to a wide audience reaching outside of acade…

Hong Kong : ville mondiale et gestion d'une métropole de très forte densité

2011

Transportation in the Philippines

2017

Linking the islands of the archipelago was traditionally done by boat. Today, ships are still used by millions of people to cross straits between the major islands, since there are no bridges except from Leyte to Samar. Cebu lies at the center of the ferries network, while small bangkas bring people to remote islets or through river mouths and harbors. The implementation of the Strong Republic Nautical Highway aims at speeding up and smoothing transfers from island to island. The port of Manila, a small player in the dynamic West Pacific rim, may be relieved from congestion with the rise of Batangas and Subic. Aviation, centered at the saturated Manila airport, has grown quickly since dereg…

Rail et développement des territoires en Chine

2010

Ville et environnement aux Etats-Unis

2005

Farm Productions and Rural Landscapes

2017

Farm landscapes in the Philippines are dominated by rice and coconuts in most provinces. In a country of generally small farm holdings, rice, the staple food, is cultivated across the archipelago, even if corn plays a bigger role in the southern part of the country. In the mountains of northern Luzon, the Ifugao tribe have developed over several centuries a remarkable landscape of rice terraces on steep slopes, but most of the rice is grown in the plains of Central Luzon around Manila. The coconut “tree of life”, most abundant in Quezon and Bicol, is used in many different ways, from food to construction materials. Bananas and pineapple are the leading export productions, mostly grown on la…

Smart sustainability challenges in Manila, Philippines

2016

International audience

Nodalité, accessibilité et centralité dans le transport de fret aérien aux Etats-Unis : le triangle Louisville-Cincinnati-Indianapolis

2004

Phasing out the jeepney ? A Philippine mode of transport at the crossroads of society, culture and sustainability.

2017

International audience

Transportation trends in French cities

2011

Tourisme et rizières en terrasses d’Asie

2017

National audience

Dynamiques de développement et inégalités régionales en Chine

2009

Le rapide développement économique de la Chine a généré des inégalités socio-spatiales croissantes, qui se marquent par un décalage croissant entre provinces littorales et intérieures, et entre villes et campagnes. À partir de l’examen des données statistiques officielles chinoises, on peut clairement repérer une aggravation des déséquilibres internes de la Chine, qui sont des facteurs potentiels de déstabilisation sociale, en particulier dans le cas des paysans venus tenter leur chance dans les grandes aires urbaines littorales, ou chassés de leurs terres par l’expansion périmétropolitaine. Cela entraîne aujourd’hui une politique différenciée d’aménagement du territoire chinois visant à co…

Les rizières en Asie de l'est et du sud-est: paysages, patrimoines et valorisations touristiques

2016

International audience

It’s More Fun in the Philippines? The Challenges of Tourism

2017

The Philippines have been in recent years a minor destination of international tourism flows, especially from Europe. Most visitors are Asians (Korea, Japan), Americans or Australians. This chapter examines some strengths of the Philippines in terms of tourism potentials (landscapes, undersea diving, cultural heritage), then its organizational and infrastructural weaknesses (transportation), as well as the lack of proper maintenance of tourism assets and the overcrowding of Boracay island, before examining the tourism policies of the national government (the successful “Its more fun in the Philippines” campaign, development of gambling, medical tourism and ecotourism). Four case studies in …

Mondialisation et grands projets urbains : le nouveau visage de Shanghai

2009

National audience

Towards greener transport policies in MetroManila

2013

Many cities in the world, including Greater Manila, are suffering from many ills linked to the dominant use of motor vehicles in daily mobility : air pollution, traffic congestion, accidents... We will present some of the measures implemented in Europe, especially France and Germany, to improve the quality of urban life through "green" transportation policies. Then we will have a look at some accomplishments in selected American and Asian cities like Japan, before suggesting some ideas on how to improve the situation in Manila through an adaptation of foreign successes to the specificities of the Philippines capital region.

Commerce et mobilités

2010

À travers quatre thématiques se penchant respectivement sur la mobilité des consommateurs, le commerce et les lieux de transit, les modes de transport et les politiques publiques, cet ouvrage interroge les relations actuelles qui s'établissent entre l'activité commerciale et les mobilités. Au travers d'exemples français et étrangers (Turquie, Pérou, Afrique), les auteurs cherchent à analyser la diversité des choix des consommateurs et les relations complexes entre mobilité et pratiques d'achats.

Muyong and subak. Farm production, cultural heritage and environmental challenges in the terraced rice fields of Bali, Indonesia and the Ifugao count…

2017

The terraced rice fields of Bali and the northern Philippines are not just spectacular agricultural production sites located in hilly or mountainous areas. Their development by the Hindu Balinese and the non-Christianized Ifugao includes a strong religious dimension as well as a complex social organization around the management of water resources. The recent rise of tourism, coupled with the UNESCO world heritage recognition of these agricultural areas, leads today to several challenges that may jeopardize the balance of these societies: tourism overcrowding, loss of authenticity, abandonment of farming by young people. Are these sophisticated local farming systems sustainable in the contex…

The Philippine Agriculture: Weaknesses and Controversies

2017

The sugarcane plantations of Negros Island epitomize the huge inequalities in the Philippine countryside. Landlords have controlled vast estates, the haciendas, since the Spanish colonial period. Despite the pressure of peasant associations, revolutionary agrarian movements (Huks, then the communist NPA) and the church support for poor farmers, most efforts to implement a substantial agrarian reform, including in the Marcos period and the CARP of Corazon Aquino, have failed in reducing inequities and improving the life of poor peasants in the country. Hacienda Luisita, a property of the Aquino family, illustrates the difficulties to implement a true agrarian reform. The Philippines hence ap…

Washington, une ville mondiale ?

2001

Washington DC is rarely mentioned in the scientific literature on world cities. However, its influence on the world economy is obvious (World Bank, IMF, Federal Reserve). As a new immigration center, Washington has grown rapidly into an international city. It is suggested that the concept of global city must be re-examined to propose a more flexible definition.

Des territoires dans la mondialisation : l'exemple des Amériques

2010

La démographie chinoise en mutation

2009

International audience; Avec une population estimée par l'ONU à 1335 millions d'habitants en juillet 2009, soit 19,6 % de la population mondiale, la Chine est le pays le plus peuplé du monde devant l'Inde (1175 millions) et les États-Unis (309 millions). Sa population est 10 fois celle du Japon, 20 fois celle de la France. Le président Jiang Zemin avait déclaré en octobre 1999, lors du cinquantenaire de la Révolution Communiste que " le problème nº 1 de la Chine est le contrôle de la croissance de population ". Si la masse de population a pu apparaître comme un atout à l'époque maoïste, elle est perçue aujourd'hui tant comme une contrainte (logement, alimentation, emploi) que comme un argum…

Conclusion: Towards Sustainable Development in the Philippines?

2017

For many years, the Philippine archipelago, as we hope to have shown throughout this book, has suffered from many ills, some related to its geography and natural environment, some to its major demographic trends, many also from its social, economic and political structures and choices and its early insertion within a globalized economy. Resources have been depleted or severely damaged (forests, soils, water, coral reefs, mangroves, fisheries). Environmental losses may be linked to extensive factors (economic and population growth) as well as intensive factors (unequal distribution and access to market resources) (Montes and Lim 1996). Everything is linked, such as climate change and poverty…

Transportation and sustainable development in a mid-size French city, Dijon

2011

International audience

Les villes Nord-Américaines

2001

National audience

The Growth of Greater Manila

2017

Manila is one of the largest megacities in the world. It has grown from the original settlements at the mouth of the Pasig River and the walled Spanish city of Intramuros. The American period saw major plans drawn by architect/planner Daniel Burnham to transform Manila in a US-style capital city, while the Commonwealth saw new plans to create a capital, Quezon City, also largely inspired by American models such as Washington DC. Those plans were only partially implemented. Today, Manila has become a complex metropolis, with several business centers taking over from downtown Manila. Among them, Makati, Ortigas and Bonifacio Global City appear as the true engines of economic growth in the cou…

La Chine

2008

Vigne et changement climatique

2006

Organisé du 28 au 30 mars 2007 à Dijon et à Beaune sous l'égide de la Chaire Unesco Vin et Culture par le Centre de Recherches en Climatologie de l'Université de Bourgogne (J. Pérard, M. Madelin), le colloque pluridisciplinaire et international " Réchauffement climatique, quels impacts sur les vignobles ? ", a réuni autour de ce thème géographes, climatologues, historiens, agronomes, oenologues, viticulteurs, économistes et sociologues, qui ont présenté 45 communications ou posters regroupées en trois ateliers principaux : indicateurs de l'évolution climatique, impacts sur la vigne, réchauffement et qualité des vins.

L'avenir de la population des Etats-Unis

2006

Frontière canadienne, frontière mexicaine : deux visages des Etats-Unis ?

2006

The renaissance of tramways and urban redevelopment in France

2017

Abstract Tramways have made a remarkable comeback in France since the 1980s. An organization of public transport based on the decentralized administration system set up in the early 1980s has allowed local urban authorities to make their own choices to develop public transport networks in the context of automobile domination. As in many other countries, worries about fossil fuel dependency and demands concerning sustainable urban development appear as strong elements in favour of urban light rail. However, in France, tramways are not just technical solutions for traffic congestion, they have also become a symbol of a cultural mutation in urban development planning. Coupled with a national p…

Dynamiques urbaines en Asie du Sud-Est

2014

L’urbanisation mondiale est un phenomene irrepressible. Les aires urbaines, accueillent desormais plus d’habitants que les campagnes. L’acceleration de la croissance urbaine, fortement correlee a la mondialisation, a l’expansion de l’economie de marche et des technologies modernes, se marque en particulier par l’emergence de grandes metropoles, de « megacites ». Le concept meme de ville est remis en question par l’explosion demographique et l’etalement urbain. Les villes-centre sont desormais...

Alongside EDSA. Improving Metro Manila's transportation system and its efficiency using experiences of other Asian megacities : a geographer's perspe…

2013

International audience; Metro Manila's traffic is notoriously heavy and seems very wild and chaotic to Western eyes. Behind the apparent chaos appear some logics of a transport system aiming at transporting millions of people every day. EDSA exemplifies the problems of congestion across the Metro Manila area, from traffic jams to overcrowded urban rail transport and inadequate pedestrian facilities. The situation seems to get worse over time; however there are some possibilities to improve it. I will comment on some of the recent policies concerning buses around Metro Manila and examine some "success stories" of transport policies and planning in other Asian megacities (Hong Kong, Guangzhou…

Entre archipels et presqu'îles : le transport maritime à courte distance en Asie du Sud-Est

2016

International audience

The rebirth of streetcars in the United-States and France

2014

International audience

Towards a Bangsamoro in Mindanao?

2017

Mindanao was already settled by Muslims when the Spanish colonization began. Today, the western part of the island and the Sulu archipelago are territories with a majority Muslim population, whereas the rest of the Philippines is predominantly Christian. Since the sixteenth century, the “Moros” of Mindanao have fought outsiders, Spaniards first, then the Americans, and throughout history the other Filipinos. The settlement migration policy of the Philippine government in the middle of the twentieth century has transformed the human landscape of the central and eastern parts of Mindanao, now predominantly Christian, and created a major area of commercial plantations. Political opposition to …

Commission de Géographie des Transports Page

2010

Editorial

2006

Mondialisation et métropolisation sont deux tendances fortes de ce début de siècle. Hommes et biens circulent à travers la planète, les grandes métropoles internationales concentrant la majeure partie des flux de migrants internationaux. Les mouvements de population ne sont pas une nouveauté, le cosmopolitisme existait déjà dans l'Antiquité romaine et byzantine.

Défis urbains des mégapoles de pays en développement : le cas de Manille, Philippines

2010

Editorial

2003

China's domestic air passenger transportation : development patterns and regional disparity

2007

National audience

Urban transportation issues in Asian developing cities : Hyderabad, Hanoi, Manila and Guangzhou

2011

International audience

Les Etats-Unis

2003

Cette synthèse sur le territoire américain s'attache d'abord à définir les caractéristiques des différents espaces et la relation des hommes avec leur milieu. Elle analyse ensuite le développement des villes et les phénomènes urbains. Les régions américaines sont abordées dans une dernière partie.

Les Philippines, carrefour culturel et culinaire.

2017

International audience

Nature et ville dans les métropoles asiatiques : environnement et stratégies de développement durable

2013

The return of bicycles as a sustainable transportation tool in France

2010

International audience

Cartes et élections : la construction des circonscriptions électorales aux Etats-Unis, entre égalité et équité

2003

Maps and Elections : The Construction of Electoral Districts in the USA. Decennal census-led redistricting in the United States is the occasion for court actions focused nowadays on the political representation of ethnic minorities. Computer tools make possible the building of districts specifically tailored for Blacks or Hispanics, but blatant racial gerrymandering is now rejected by the US Supreme Court. This paper examines the most relevant judicial decisions and describes several local cases.

Bus Rapid Transit : from Brazil to Chinese cities

2012

International audience

Linking the islands: a comparison between Japan and the Philippines

2014

International audience

Les grands équipements de transport dans les villes d'Asie orientale, avec l'exemple de Manille

2009

Transportation choices in French cities : high-speed rail ; streetcars and bicycles

2011

Le tramway contre l'étalement urbain : expériences américaines de politique intégrées transport-urbanisme - le tramway à Portland et Denver

2009

Les défis de la gouvernance urbaine à Manille

2014

La région capitale des Philippines est une des plus grandes aires urbaines du monde en termes de population. Le périmètre officiel du Grand Manille (17 municipalités) abrite environ 12 millions d’habitants et l’expansion périmétropolitaine porte le chiffre réel de Manille à 15 ou 16 millions d’habitants.La rapide croissance de l’aire urbaine depuis les années 1960 a conduit à de gros problèmes de gestion du logement, de la circulation, des déchets et des risques d’inondation, entre autres. Les phénomènes sont interdépendants.Créée sous Ferdinand Marcos, la National Capital Region fut gérée par son épouse Imelda Marcos, gouverneure du Grand Manille. Après la chute de la dictature, une volont…

Philippines

2012

A qui appartient la mer ? Revendications et conflits potentiels sur les espaces maritimes

2011

Mer de Chine du Sud ou mer des Philippines de l'Ouest

2012

National audience

Macau

2013

Les grands ports maritimes d'Asie orientale

2009

National audience

Commerce et mobilité : les boutiques d'aéroport

2010

Space, time, and the territories of daily mobilities in cities : some international perspectives

2010

L'industrie automobile nord-américaine dans la mondialisation

2007

Le tourisme en Asie

2017

National audience

France's wine AOC and terroirs : the Burgundy model

2013

Urban management issues in a dense Asian megacity : Manila, Philippines

2014

Metropolitan issues in Manila, Philippines

2010

Sustainable urban transport in Asian cities

2012

Les Grandes Plaines des Etats-Unis : une Amérique du déclin démographique

2003

The Shinking of Population in the Great Plains of the United States. In the Plain States (Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota), where many of the American counties experiencing losses in population are concentrated, the variety of population dynamics is wider than expected. Besides persistent decline linked to rural outmigration and ageing in remote locations, the is also a rapid growth of the principal metropolitan areas of the region. In several counties, the reversal of demographic fortunes is linked to the recent creation of large meatpacking plants, which have recruited Mexican labor. The sudden arrival of Hispanics in small rural towns has generated tensions. The magnitude…

The Philippines, country of islands

2014

Comparer les capitales : l'urbanisme d'état à Washington et son influence sur d'autres capitales d'Etats

2008

Les boutiques sari-sari aux Philippines : entre commerce informel et circuits de la grande distribution

2016

International audience

Géographes et géographies

2018

Historiquement associée à l’astronomie et à la cartographie, la géographie s’est intéressée aux relations entre les hommes et leurs milieux et a pris en France une orientation marquée vers l’étude de régions rurales largement définies par la géologie. Dans le monde anglo-saxon, en revanche, des modèles théoriques d’organisation de l’espace ont donné plus d’importance au rôle des villes et des réseaux. Mettant en avant les personnalités clés qui ont montré de nouvelles voies, cet ouvrage retrace les évolutions de la géographie de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Il intègre les apports des techniques de télédétection et des systèmes d’information géographiques, ainsi que les réflexions contemporaines…

Le nouveau visage de Shanghai

2003

From Paris and Beijing to Washington and Brasilia: the grand design of capital cities and the early plans for Quezon City

2014

International audience; Political leaders have always sought to build monumental capitals, with earlier designs influencing those of later cities. The Western design that revolved around a central axis of power became evident in some Asian capitals, although cities in the Chinese cultural realm differed in shape but nonetheless had its own axis of power. This article provides a typology of capital cities and from this perspective it explores the design of the newly created capital of Quezon City in the late 1930s. Quezon City’s design embraced some design ideas from elsewhere, but it remained unique. However, the design was not realized entirely.

Les transports inter-insulaires aux Philippines

2011

Potential impacts of high-speed rail on Chinese cities : a perspective from Europe

2010

International audience

Pacific Rim destinations amidst Paris CDG airport's O.& D. patterns

2002

International audience

From US Colony to Independent Country: The Construction of a State

2017

This chapter covers the twentieth century, when the Philippines were changed by the US colonization after a brutal war of conquest. Progress in education, medicine, urbanization and transportation was obvious, while the Americans fostered the development of a Filipino political class that was called to govern the country alongside American political ideals, as was hoped with the implementation of the Philippine Commonwealth in 1935 under president Quezon. The difficult years of the Japanese occupation gave place to an independent nation in 1946, which had to deal with the presence of US military bases during the Cold War, profound social inequalities inherited from the Spanish period, and a…

Mondialisation, grandes métropoles et NTIC : le rôle des technologies de la communication dans le développement des grandes villes

2006