La fin du Canada français et la mise en place du Canada moderne
dissociés des autres Canadiens français en les abandonnant aux aléas des pouvoirs provinciaux. L'A. montre que cette thèse ne résiste pas à l'analyse. L'édification du Canada moderne doit son existence à la disparition du Canada français, qui pose le
Development ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; Modernization ; North-South relations ; Political geography ; Political regime ; Power
In the context of development and the will to be modern, the paper explores key elements of power and representation across the North-South divide. Taking examples from US- Latin American relations, it emphasizes the continuity of geopolitical power
Decision ; Gentrification ; Habitability ; Housing ; Housing improvement ; Investment ; Model ; Modernization ; Urban district
The model proposed is based on the notion that gentrification closes a gap between the flow of housing services fixed in a particular vintage of the housing stock and those available from the most modern properties. This gap is not a rent gap
Accessibility ; Brazil ; Car ; Form of transport ; Middle class ; Modernization ; Quality of life ; São Paulo ; Transport policy ; Urban area ; Urban policy ; Urban transport
The A. argues that the adaptation of urban spaces to cope with increased automobile traffic are definite economic and political undertakings related to capitalist modernization processes in which the middle classes play the most important role
Heinrich Gutersohn 1899-1996. Geographisches Denken zwischen Tradition und Moderne: widersprüchlich oder komplementär?
Geographer's role ; Geographic school ; Geographical thought ; Landscape ; Modernism ; Social development ; Space ; Switzerland ; Tradition
social moderne, pourrait jouer un rôle pratique. Il est nécessaire de trouver un équilibre entre la tradition et la modernité. L'A. s'interroge sur ces questions, tout d'abord à l'appui de l'oeuvre de Gutersohn, ensuite à l'appui des thèses actuelles
surface. The buried balka is not directly inherited by the present-day landform. The modern erosional form is simpler in pattern and shifted northeastward from the Mikulino one. However, under conditions of the Central Russia Highland the buried small
erosional landforms occur rather close to the day surface and may influence indirectly the modern soil and topographic pettern. - (L'A.).
Communication ; Planning ; Post-modernism ; Theory
La critique postmoderne n'est pas la seule à occuper l'avant-scène des débats au sein des théories de la planification. Le courant communicationnel a aussi contribué à renouveler les perspectives de la planification moderne. L'A. se demande jusqu'à
Canada ; Epistemology ; Landscape esthetics ; Montréal ; Perception of the urban environment ; Post-modernism ; Quebec ; Town planning ; Urban environment ; Urban landscape ; Urbanism
Les thèses du déclin et de la relance de Montréal sont traversées par deux métarécits complémentaires et concomitants : le récit urbain moderne et les approches post-modernistes. Le but de cet article est de comprendre comment ces deux métarécits
Observations on the distribution and the age of loess-like sediments in the more than 3000 m high ranges of Wutai Shan and Qinling Shan (Central China) were made during recent geomorphological investigations. In altitudes below 1800-2000 m a modern
loess accumulation takes place, whereas the eolian loess accumulation in the higher altitudes is much reduced. In the modern alpine meadow belts, the loessic sediments underwent varying degrees of weathering and pedogenesis.
The paper provides a selective review of progress in Japanese historical geography over the last 50 years. It focuses on studies of the geography of Japan from the prehistoric period until the beginning of the modern period in 1868. Traditional
cities, focusing on th rash of laws that seek to limit the actions of homeless people. These laws attempt the annihilation of the people who live in space. They reflect and reinforce a exclusionary sense of modern citizenship.
Swedish racisms may in part be seen and heard as local manifestations of the present moment of danger in which the practices and experiences encountered in every day life are characterized as capitalist modernity magnified. A politics of resentment