Search results for "urban studies"

Les formations carbonatées du Dortan (Ain) : premières observations

1986

Calcium carbonate, deposits have built four terraces, near Dortan, in the Southern part of Central Jura (46° lat. N). These deposits may just cover other terraces associated themselves with an ice-dammed lake. They include two types : 1) tufa deposits, porous and hard, with conspicuous tree remains ; 2) lake chalk, compact and brittle, snowing lenses and, sometimes, varves, with shells and pieces of charcoal. C 14 dating and analyses should allow to insert these deposits in the Jura Holocene chronology and to explain their situation at such a high latitude.

Management of the image of the city in urban planning: experimental methodologies in the colour plan of the Egadi Islands

2022

AbstractThe debate over the value of the image of a city, which since the 1960s has been gaining wider room for reflection, has arisen as a criticism against the reductionism of the Modern Movement and highlighted the value of the qualitative aspects of an urban landscape. The question asked is if urban planning can in some way govern the image of a city. An investigation into which tools and strategies are necessary to defend the narrative of a city, its identity and its genius loci against the homologating forces that are transforming contemporary cities. The article explores the theoretical principles and methods being experimentally used to qualitatively manage the urban environment. Re…

Effects of undergrowth removal and edge proximity on ground beetles and vascular plants in urban boreal forests

2019

Visual Representation of Urban Environment: Microraioni of Riga in Soviet Cinematography

2017

Abstract The aim of this article is to interpret the discourse of residential areas of Riga through the films of the Soviet period and to examine essential changes in residential structure. Specific image of cinematic formal techniques is used in relation to the urban. The results of movie review are compared with changes in the residential development between 1945–1990. 124 movies display that residential areas are frequently portrayed in the Soviet cinema and they form an integral part of the Soviet urban perception.

From a Barrio Chino Urban Stigma to the Raval Cultural Brand: Urban Memory and Cultural Policies in the Renewal of Central Barcelona

2020

Barcelona, and especially, its historic center, has undergone a profound transformation from an industrial city to a global tourism and services center. Some authors insist on the destructive nature of the urban regeneration of the historic Barcelona district of Raval as a process of de-identification of the city center or as an intentional falsification of its identity to turn it into a tourist space. However, as we discuss in this article, urban branding and urban change projects should address not only the infrastructural issues of transformation, but also the development of new urban branding based on recreating a memory of the place. Thus, in the case of Raval, the urban and cultural …

Kirsi Saarikangas, Model Houses for Model Families: Gender, Ideology and the Modern Dwelling. The Type-Planned Houses of the 1940s in Finland. Helsin…

1996

The internationalization of musical life at the end of the nineteenth century in modernized Paris and Rome

2013

ABSTRACT:This article examines the relationship between the processes of urban renovation in European capitals and the internationalization of musical theatre productions, using the example of theatres constructed in Paris and Rome at the end of the nineteenth century. Due to the limited availability of governmental and municipal funding, the more popular theatres in both capitals came to provide an important space for musical productions on an avant-garde level, with international repertoires and casts.

Le peuple et la violence dans les villes bourguignonnes au XVIIIe siècle

2018

Aux yeux des observateurs de la société d’Ancien Régime, qu’il s’agisse des contemporains ou des historiens, le peuple et la violence vont souvent ensemble, notamment dans les villes, et il s’agit d’une violence fruste et spontanée, bien éloignée des raffinements des comportements nobiliaires. De ces idées reçues, l’examen attentif des archives judiciaires permet de montrer les inexactitudes et les limites. Il a été mené assez loin à propos du peuple des villes bourguignonnes au XVIIIe siècle...

Regions, networks and innovative performance: The case of knowledge-intensive industries in Norway

2010

Many recent studies maintain that regional characteristics influence the innovative performances, innovation processes and innovation patterns of firms. Based on a representative sample of knowledge-intensive firms in Norway, this paper analyses the innovation output, innovation partners, knowledge sources, and localization of sources and partners for knowledge-intensive firms in three types of region: large urban regions, small urban regions and rural areas.The empirical results contradict some of the assumptions of the literature dealing with agglomeration economies, regional clusters, and so on. We find, for example, that the firms’ innovation partners and knowledge sources are quite sim…

Agglomeration without trade: how non-traded goods shape the space-economy

2004

Abstract We develop a spatial general equilibrium model in which the absence of interregional trade is an endogenous outcome. Extending the model developed by Ottaviano, Tabuchi, and Thisse (Int. Econ. Rev. 43 (2002) 409), we show that equilibria without trade differ significantly from those obtained in the presence of trade, which suggests that the presence of non-traded goods has a significant impact on spatial structures. Somewhat surprisingly, equilibrium structures without trade are richer than those with trade because partial agglomeration becomes a feasible outcome. Equilibria now depend on the ratio of mobile to immobile factors and an increase in that ratio triggers a process of sp…