Peri-urbanisation has been recognised as a major spatial development beyond the urban fringes. Agriculture is increasingly affected by urban encroachment, and responds with adaptation strategies and farming activities to cope with the peri-urban
-urbanisation, ex-urbanisation, anti-urbanisation and hidden-urbanisation as main types of peri-urbanisation, variances of farming responses are elaborated for municipal entities in the Copenhagen region. Findings confirm that the differentiation of peri-urban
Cartographier l’évolution de la péri urbanisation autour de Toulouse
Cartographic display ; Data ; Demographic change ; Demographic structure ; France ; Midi-Pyrénées ; Municipality ; Outer conurbation area ; Periurban development ; Toulouse ; Urban area ; Urban population ; Urban sprawl
An obsolete dichotomy ? Rethinking the rural-urban interface in terms of food security and production in the global south
la production alimentaire se maintient dans des localisations péri-urbaines. Il faut concilier production alimentaire et croissance urbaine par le biais de politiques et de planifications appropriées.
Comparative approaches to measuring food access in urban areas : the case of Portland, Oregon
Accessibility ; Distance ; Food ; Geographical information system ; Income ; Neighbourhood ; Oregon ; Retail trade ; Social class ; Social geography ; Spatial distribution ; United States of America ; Urban transport
Géographique en prenant en compte la proximité (distance à parcourir) et la concurrence dans le même quartier. Les résultats montrent que ces magasins se concentrent en centre-ville tandis que l'accès est plus difficile dans les zones péri-urbaines et qu'il
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Les espaces urbains et peri-urbains a usage agricole dans les villes d Afrique sub-saharienne (Yaounde et Accra) : une approche de l intermediarite en geographie
Rural-urban migration and unemployment : theory and policy implications
Economic equilibrium ; Employment ; Job creation ; Living standard ; Regional economy ; Regional model ; Rural outmigration ; Unemployment ; Urban immigration
that it is unique. Two policies are considered : decreasing urban unemployment benefits and subsidizing urban employment. Decreasing the unemployment benefit in the city creates urban jobs and reduces rural–urban migration since new migrants have to spend some time
unemployed before they can find a job in the city. Raising employment subsidies increases urban employment but may also increase urban unemployment because it triggers more rural–urban migration.
Berlin ; Buenos Aires ; Creativeness ; Cultural studies ; Lagos ; London ; Los Angeles ; Political ecology ; Seoul ; Site of memory ; Urban change ; Urban geography ; Urbanization
This edited volume brings together a range of international scholarship on cities, urbanization, and urban culture. The format of the collection involves short essays that explore such themes as new forms of political mobilization, the effects
of economic instability, the political ecology of urban nature, and the presence of collective memory. Cultural aspects of urban change are considered, including the work of artists and film makers who have critically engaged with processes of urban change
Bunkerology - a case study in the theory and practice of urban exploration
Internet ; Site preservation ; Town ; Urban environment
The paper reviews existing academic interpretations of urban exploration and argues that focus on identifying the emancipatory dimension of this practice has failed to account for the orientation evident in the study of accounts of exploration
of Cold War bunkers posted on urban exploration Internet forums.
debates on the further direction to follow in the frame of post-socialist economic and urban restructuring. The author describes the current tendencies and the deliberate investment directions which significantly influenced the development of the city
Who's Participation? Who's Sustainability ? A Critical Analysis of Initiatives for Urban Sustainability inIndia
Environment ; Environmental justice ; India ; Madras ; Participation ; Political ecology ; Stream ; Sustainable development ; Tamil Nadu ; Town planning ; Urban landscape ; Urban park ; Urbanization
This paper considers urban environmental sustainability in cities of the global South. Drawing on the insights of urban political ecology and a critique of participatory development, the author argues that environmental sustainability initiatives
mask the political economy of environmental injustice and uneven urban development. This argument is fleshed out through a case study of the Adyar Poonga river restoration project in Chennai, India. The case study highlights two key dimensions of what
is termed the ‘depoliticisation’ of the production of urban nature. First, the political conflicts that surround urban environmental projects are neutralized through a definition of sustainability that is primarily concerned with making environmentalism
and economic development compatible. Second, conflicts surrounding urban environments are ostensibly ‘depoliticized’ through highly selective practices of ‘participation’. Generalized in this way, the discourse and practice of participation gloss over the power
asymmetries that characterize the civic sphere in urban India. As environmental best practice is being actively formulated and replicated through projects like the Adyar Poonga, it becomes ever more urgent, to interrogate the mechanisms of political inclusions
/exclusion and to question who benefits from urban environmental change.
Concept ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Social structure ; Urban area ; Urban morphology ; Urban settlement ; Urban structure
The purpose of this interdisciplinary article is to present a structural unit of urban space termed the morphomark, as a concept adopted from urban morphology. The article compiles concepts of space, as these reflect morphological processes
of the interdisciplinary study of spatial (natural and social) structure. The article reproduces morphology as a subject area of the disciplines for which the study of forms are common. Urban morphology as an art of urban forms is also discussed. – (BJ)
Bombay ; Knowledge ; Learning process ; Production of space ; Urban geography ; Urban policy ; Urbanism
the concept of urban learning assemblage to explain the complex processes through which knowledge and learning enable and limit various forms of urbanism. - (HC)
The paper states the great relevance of the urban climate. This kind of knowledge and applied researches can contribute to planning of new urban settlement and, generally, improve the city environment and the human quality life. The paper describes
the main urban climate peculiarities, the methodological approaches and the policy measures of intervention. - (NF)