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Past Objectives and Future Scenarios
2016
The intimate link between landscape and urban planning has long been denied and underestimated. In spite of the “good intentions” of certain scholars, practitioners and policy makers across Italy, Spain and other EU countries, their efforts are undermined by rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and by a concept of landscape defined in purely aesthetic terms. We have established the importance of identifying tools used to integrate the various approaches that “urbanism” and landscape planning adopt in dealing with urban planning to date. In fact, even with the prospect of significant environmental legislation, the discipline is still unable to incorporate the concept of landscape and its asso…
Gestión del cuerpo y planificación urbana: Desplazamiento de significado en la reivención de cuepos y ciudades
2020
Contemporary cities have administrations increasingly marked by urban planning guidelines that are guided by business and marketing and, to attract investments and tourists, implement strategies that aim to homogenize, spectacularize and control urban space. However, other experiences in the city potentially build new meaning to it, which would escape those strategically planned, creating alternative possibilities of uses, diverging from the way thar are predicted and proposed by the governmental power in their urban marketing strategies. The article discusses how the occupation of urban spaces by transvestites for prostitution may imply reflections on the role of norms of gender in the (re…
Economic geography and growth: recent advances and new results
1997
Two fields of economic theory have developed recently in parallel: on the one hand, economic geography aims to explain the formation of a heterogeneous space, i.e.how the agglomeration of households and firms determines differentiated regions, urban structures or urban systems; on the other hand, theories of endogenous growth propose new views on growth mechanisms which invalidate the traditional convergence rule. Thesetheories are based on common foundations such as increasing returns, spatial externalities and monopolistic competition. We examine here in some detail how the spatial dimension is implicit in endogenous growth theories. We emphasize the whys and wherefores of the combination…
De von Thünen à Fujita : continuité ou rupture ?
1996
L'histoire de la pensée économique spatiale fait apparaître quatre grands paradigmes qui se rattachent respectivement aux travaux initiateurs de von Thünen, Weber, Christaller et Lösch et enfin Hotelling (Ponsard, 1983). En y ajoutant les apports d'autres auteurs, comme Lauhnardt et Greenhut (Norman, 1993), et en étudiant les complémentarités et les interactions entre ces paradigmes (Ponsard, 1983 ; Fujita, Ogawa et Thisse, 1988 ; Fujita et Thisse, 1986), on a pu souvent souligner les pertinences actuelles, théoriques et empiriques, de ces contributions historiques. Mais cespertinences dépassent également le champ strict de l'économie spatiale, puisque certaines théories de l'économie inter…
Urban economics and endogenous dynamics in regional growth
1995
Nous nous proposons, dans cet article, d ’étudier sous quelles conditions des mécanismes endogènes de croissance applicables aux régions peuvent être définis. L ’accent est mis sur l'organisation spatiale des activités économiques qui permet de produire les économies d ’agglomération nécessaires à la croissance. On étudie ensuite les impacts de cette organisation spatiale sur la capacité exportatrice des régions et sur la croissance économique régionale.
La ville abstraite : une analyse des représentations théoriques de la ville
1995
Par le terme générique de ville abstraite, nous désignons les représentations de la ville sur lesquelles s'appuie un discours théorique, économique, géographique ou social, positif ou normatif, ou qui sont l'objet d'un tel discours. Ces représentations sont des constructions mentales conscientes réalisées dans le but explicite de donner du sens à la ville, c'est-à-dire de n'en retenir que certains éléments jugés significatifs pour ce que l'on veut démontrer. Nous distinguons ce type de représentation de deux autres que nous ne traitons pas. La première est celle de la ville perçue. C'est une représentation mentale qui se construit dans l'esprit de l'individu qui se localise, vit dans la vil…
Informational interactions and the future of cities
1998
Present-day city growth is chiefly the result of new tertiary activities such as financial and producer services, R&D, or business administration. It seems that these activities need to be more spatially concentrated than traditional manufacturing activities. These new trends affect both the structure of cities and the structure of city systems. The specific nature of the new activities concentrated in city centers makes them information intensive. These activities consume human capital, knowledge and hightech capital, which are all rapidly changing inputs; they are based on complex decisionmakingprocesses; this renders them highly information-dependent. Inasmuch as these activities are the…
Between Public and Private. The house as a Primary Good for the Social City
2017
Ferdinando Trapani esamina le condizioni più strutturali del social housing, con riferimenti certi di teoria urbanistica di livello internazionale, ma con solidi principi di scelta pianificatoria nel complesso tema del risparmio del suolo. If we wish to study welfare states, we must begin with a set of criteria that define their role in society. This role is certainly not to spend or tax; nor is necessarily that of creating equality. It is generally believed that welfare-state backlash movements, tax revolts and roll backs are ignited when social expenditure burdens become too heavy. Anti welfare state backlash sentiments over the past decade have generally been weakest where welfare spendi…
URBANIZATION PROCESSES AND ITS SPECIFICS IN LATGALE
2010
<p>Urbanization is an important demo-geographical process and a complex social phenomenon under impact of which changes are made not only to the global, regional or national settlement systems, but all socio-economic processes are also substantially transformed. Changes caused by urbanization have an impact on traditional way of life, cultural particularity, community and individual psychology and other aspects of spiritual life, therefore expressions and regularities of this process might be of interest not only for demographers, geographers and economists, but also for representatives of the field of humanities.</p><p>Paper presents the progress of urbanization processes…
The importance of Hygienics and Clean Water Treatment in Valencia (1860-1910)
2016
El siglo XIX se caracteriza por numerosos cambios tanto a nivel social como estructural de la población: se produce un acelerado desarrollo urbano sin planificación y carente de servicios que da lugar a una mala calidad de vida y numerosas epidemias. Estos cambios tienen como resultado un nuevo movimiento, el Higienismo, que pretende mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población. En España, todas las reformas higiénicas se desarrollaron mediante los planes de Ensanche. Uno de los puntos clave de este pensamiento es el abastecimiento de agua potable como medio para evitar enfermedades. La ciudad de Valencia es un claro ejemplo de la importancia de este movimiento y cómo el abastecimiento d…