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Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events

open access: yes, 2022
This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The ‘festivalisation’ of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces ...
Smith, Andrew   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The transition to autonomous cars, the redesign of cities and the future of urban sustainability

open access: yesUrban Geography, 2020
Autonomous cars controlled by an artificial intelligence are increasingly being integrated in the transport portfolio of cities, with strong repercussions for the design and sustainability of the built environment.
Federico Cugurullo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The urban geography of advanced producer service transaction links in Belgium

open access: yesBelgeo, 2011
This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the geography of external relations of cities. Our overall purpose thereby is to tease out some of the basic principles of alternative approaches to the study of the spatiality of urban systems in the ...
Heidi Hanssens, Ben Derudder
doaj   +1 more source

A REDE URBANA EM GOIÁS: UMA ANÁLISE DO PADRÃO ESPACIAL NA PRIMEIRA DÉCADA DO SÉCULO XXI / THE URBAN NETWORK IN GOIÁS: AN ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL PATTERN IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THIS CENTURY XXI. [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Geonorte, 2017
The urban network corresponds to the articulation of urban centers through its functions. From considerations of this concept will be discussed in this paper the spatial pattern of the urban network in Goiás, being guided by the analysis of secondary ...
Luiz Fernando Roscoche   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medium-sized cities in decline in France: between urban shrinkage and city centre devitalisation

open access: yesRaumforschung und Raumordnung, 2021
Since the end of the 2000s, the question of the decline of French medium-sized towns has become central within the scientific and public debate. More specifically, two processes are underlined: the devitalisation of city centres on the one hand, and ...
Julie Chouraqui
doaj   +1 more source

La ville américaine en classe de terminale, 1905-2004

open access: yesCybergeo, 2013
This article presents the discourse of the XXth century French geography about American cities. This discourse evolves according to urban reality in the United States, but also according to French political context, to images and knowledge that exist ...
Marielle Wastable
doaj   +1 more source

Urban geography of arts: The co-production of arts and cities [PDF]

open access: yesCities, 2018
Since the end of the 20th century, culture in general (Zukin, 1995), and art in particular (Miles, 1997), have been ever more present and visible in cities. Because they are increasingly understood as an integral part of the urban fabric in a post-industrial era, they are often promoted as key-drivers in urban (re)development strategies (Paddison ...
Guinard, Pauline, Molina, Géraldine
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Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Building on the main sections of the book, this concluding chapter identifies four thematic areas for future research into the urban-transportation-geography nexus as follows: (1) the everyday experience of transport and mobility in the “ordinary city”; (
Jonas, Andrew E.G.
core   +1 more source

Toward 2030. The Role of Resilient and Sustainable Urban Planning to Foster a Greener Decade in Coastal Areas

open access: yesProceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2022
Nowadays, more than 600 million people lived in coastal areas, outlooks forecast that they will be more than one billion by 2030. Cities occupy less than 2% of the world lands but are responsible for 70% of CO2 emissions.
Carlo Alberini
doaj   +1 more source

Revitalization and ITS Impact on Public. Space Organization A Case Study of Manchester in UK, Lyon in France and Łódź in Poland

open access: yesTeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2014
Process of deindustrialization of downtowns in most of well-developed Western European countries has been undertaken since 1960’s while in post-socialist countries just from last 25 years, after political and economic transitions in Central and Eastern ...
Jarosław Kazimierczak
doaj   +1 more source

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