LES EQUIPEMENTS CULTURELS DES VILLES FRANCAISES
LES EQUIPEMENTS CULTURELS DES VILLES FRANCAISES

Author: Françoise Lucchini

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13:

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ASSOCIER "EQUIPEMENTS CULTURELS" ET "VILLE" EST UNE AUTRE MANIERE DE PENSER LA VILLE, SOUS L'ANGLE DE L'INSCRIPTION CULTURELLE DES SOCIETES DANS L'ESPACE URBAIN. ON EXPLORE ICI CETTE NOUVELLE DIMENSION DU FAIT URBAIN, QUE CONSTITUENT LES ACTIVITES CULTURELLES DES VILLES FRANCAISES, AU TRAVERS DES INVESTISSEMENTS QU'ELLES ONT REALISE DANS LES EQUIPEMENTS CULTURELS. DANS UN ETAT TRES TOT ET TRES CONTINUEMENT INTERVENTIONNISTE EN MATIERE CULTURELLE, L'ECHELON DES VILLES CONSTITUE UN NIVEAU D'INTERVENTION MAJEUR. LA GRANDE DIVERSITE DES POLITIQUES CULTURELLES MUNICIPALES ET L'IMPORTANCE DU PARC DES EQUIPEMENTS CULTURELS URBAINS EN TEMOIGNENT. DANS L'ENSEMBLE, LE SECTEUR DE LA CULTURE REPRESENTE D'ABORD UNE ACTIVITE DE SERVICE A LA POPULATION QUI S'EST DIFFUSEE DANS L'ENSEMBLE DES VILLES. LA FONCTION CULTURELLE URBAINE, REVELEE PAR L'ORGANISATION DES EQUIPEMENTS CULTURELS URBAINS, SEMBLE RENFORCER LA HIERARCHISATION DES VILLES, APPORTANT UN CHOIX CULTUREL D'AUTANT PLUS ELARGI ET UNE DESSERTE D'AUTANT PLUS IMPORTANTE QUE LA VILLE EST DE GRANDE TAILLE. AINSI, DANS LE CONTEXTE DE COMPARAISON ET DE COMPETITIVITE, NOTAMMENT EN TERMES D'IMAGE DE MARQUE ET DE QUALITE DE LA VIE, LA CULTURE RENFORCERAIT LA POSITION RELATIVE DES VILLES DANS LE SYSTEME URBAIN FRANCAIS. MAIS LA FONCTION CULTURELLE URBAINE EST EGALEMENT UNE ACTIVITE SPECIFIQUE, DANS LA MESURE OU ELLE NE REFLETE PAS, EN DEHORS DE L'EFFET MANIFESTE DE LA TAILLE DES VILLES, LES AUTRES DIMENSIONS DU SYSTEME URBAIN. LA COMPOSITION SOCIALE EXPLICITE LE RAPPORT DES FRANCAIS A LA CULTURE, MAIS NE CONTRIBUE QUE MODESTEMENT A EXPLIQUER LA REPARTITION DES EQUIPEMENTS CULTURELS DANS LES VILLES. DES SPECIFICITES TRES MARQUANTES EN MATIERE D'EQUIPEMENT CULTUREL EXISTENT. LA CULTURE POSSEDE DONC DANS SES EXPRESSIONS VIVANTES, UNE LOGIQUE PROPRE, LIEE AUX ENERGIES LOCALES ET AUX RESSOURCES SPECIFIQUES A CHAQUE VILLE.

Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems
Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems

Author: Daniel P. O'Donoghue

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-11

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1317003365

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Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. These include suburbs, sprawl, edge cities, gated communities, conurbations and networks of places and such transformations cause conflict between central and peripheral areas at a range of spatial scales. This book explores the role of cities, their influence and the transformations they have undertaken in the recent past. Ways in which cities regenerate, how plans change, how they are governed and how they react to the economic realities of the day are all explored. Concepts such as polycentricity are explored to highlight the fact that cities are part of wider regions and the study of urban geography in the future needs to be cognisant of changing relationships within and between cities. Bringing together studies from around the world at different scales, from small town to megacity, this volume captures a snapshot of some of the changes in city centres, suburbs, and the wider urban region. In doing so, it provides a deeper understanding of the evolving form and function of cities and their associated peripheral regions as well as their impact on modern twenty-first century landscapes.

Social Housing in the Middle East
Social Housing in the Middle East

Author: Mohammad Gharipour

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 0253039878

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As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both gleaming postmodern projects and bare-bones urban housing structures—in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their impact on identities, communities, and class. While architects may have envisioned utopian or futuristic experiments, these buildings were often constructed with the knowledge and skill sets of local workers, and the housing was in turn adapted to suit the modern needs of residents. This tension between local needs and national aspirations are linked to issues of global importance, including security, migration, and refugee resettlement. The essays collected here consider how culture, faith, and politics influenced the solutions offered by social housing; they provide an insightful look at how social housing has evolved since the 19th century and how it will need to adapt to suit the 21st.

Cities and Agriculture
Cities and Agriculture

Author: Henk de Zeeuw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1317506626

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As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which reflect this challenge. This volume presents experience and evidence-based "state of the art" chapters on the key dimensions of urban food challenges and types of intra- and peri-urban agriculture. The book provides urban planners, local policy makers and urban development practitioners with an overview of crucial aspects of urban food systems based on an up to date review of research results and practical experiences in both developed and developing countries. By doing so, the international team of authors provides a balanced textbook for students of the growing number of courses on sustainable agriculture, food and urban studies, as well as a solid basis for well-informed policy making, planning and implementation regarding the development of sustainable, resilient and just urban food systems.

Montreal
Montreal

Author: Dany Fougères

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2018-04-06

Total Pages: 1505

ISBN-13: 0773552693

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Surrounded by water and located at the heart of a fertile plain, the Island of Montreal has been a crossroads for Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and today's citizens, and an inland port city for the movement of people and goods into and out of North America. Commemorating the city's 375th anniversary, Montreal: The History of a North American City is the definitive, two-volume account of this fascinating metropolis and its storied hinterland. This comprehensive collection of essays, filled with hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and maps, draws on human geography and environmental history to show that while certain distinctive features remain unchanged – Mount Royal, the Lachine Rapids of the Saint Lawrence River – human intervention and urban evolution mean that over time Montrealers have had drastically different experiences and historical understandings. Significant issues such as religion, government, social conditions, the economy, labour, transportation, culture and entertainment, and scientific and technological innovation are treated thematically in innovative and diverse chapters to illuminate how people's lives changed along with the transformation of Montreal. This history of a city in motion presents an entire picture of the changes that have marked the region as it spread from the old city of Ville-Marie into parishes, autonomous towns, boroughs, and suburbs on and off the island. The first volume encompasses the city up to 1930, vividly depicting the lives of First Nations prior to the arrival of Europeans, colonization by the French, and the beginning of British Rule. The crucial roles of waterways, portaging, paths, and trails as the primary means of travelling and trade are first examined before delving into the construction of canals, railways, and the first major roads. Nineteenth-century industrialization created a period of near-total change in Montreal as it became Canada's leading city and witnessed staggering population growth from less than 20,000 people in 1800 to over one million by 1930. The second volume treats the history of Montreal since 1930, the year that the Jacques Cartier Bridge was opened and allowed for the outward expansion of a region, which before had been confined to the island. From the Great Depression and Montreal's role as a munitions manufacturing centre during the Second World War to major cultural events like Expo 67, the twentieth century saw Montreal grow into one of the continent's largest cities, requiring stringent management of infrastructure, public utilities, and transportation. This volume also extensively studies the kinds of political debate with which the region and country still grapple regarding language, nationalism, federalism, and self-determination. Contributors include Philippe Apparicio (INRS), Guy Bellavance (INRS), Laurence Bherer (University of Montreal), Stéphane Castonguay (UQTR), the late Jean-Pierre Collin (INRS), Magda Fahrni (UQAM), the late Jean-Marie Fecteau (UQAM), Dany Fougères (UQAM), Robert Gagnon (UQAM), Danielle Gauvreau (Concordia), Annick Germain (INRS), Janice Harvey (Dawson College), Annie-Claude Labrecque (independent scholar), Yvan Lamonde (McGill), Daniel Latouche (INRS), Roderick MacLeod (independent scholar), Paula Negron-Poblete (University of Montreal), Normand Perron (INRS), Martin Petitclerc (UQAM), Christian Poirier (INRS), Claire Poitras (INRS), Mario Polèse (INRS), Myriam Richard (unaffiliated), Damaris Rose (INRS), Anne-Marie Séguin (INRS), Gilles Sénécal (INRS), Valérie Shaffer (independent scholar), Richard Shearmur (McGill), Sylvie Taschereau (UQTR), Michel Trépanier (INRS), Laurent Turcot (UQTR), Nathalie Vachon (INRS), and Roland Viau (University of Montreal).