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Flood risk mapping in southwestern Nova Scotia: Perceptions and concerns

Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 499-512, Winter / hiver 2023., 2023
Abstract Flood risk mapping allows for informed decision making regarding personal and community planning. Resistance to flood risk mapping can be driven by potential decline of property values. This paper explores resistance to flood risk mapping through the lens of climax thinking.
Samantha C. Howard, Kate Sherren
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La concession familiale Bamiléké: un exemple d'architecture endogène au Cameroun

Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 304-315, Summer / été 2023., 2023
Cet article aborde la question de l'architecture vernaculaire ou endogène dans les villes camerounaises à partir d'une étude de cas de la concession familiale Bamiléké en tant que forme bien spécifique d'organisation de l'habitat au sein de la communauté traditionnelle de Pète‐Bandjoun.
Joseph Esoh Elamé, Tagne Tocheu Norbert Landry   +1 more
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Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 102-114, Spring 2023., 2023
Abstract In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in the global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities and their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow and compete while caring for the disastrous impacts on Earth and human health caused by the mass ...
Agatino Rizzo, Attilio Petruccioli
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The formation of “form” and the “decoration” of space in Charlotte Perriand, part 1: Theory and practice of “en Forme (in shape)”

JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023
This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. Abstract This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. That is, by
Shoichiro Sendai
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Social housing – between design and social practices: The case of the 670 social housing units in Oran [PDF]

Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
Housing represents the initial place where each individual has the opportunity to reconnect with their identity. It should offer every family the opportunity to live according to their lifestyle.
Bachir Benyamina, Sidi Mohammed el Habib Benkoula   +1 more
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How Does Water Behave? Unstable Milieu and Stable Agencements in Dakar’s Flooded Suburbs

Urban Planning, 2022
In the suburbs of Dakar, matter as a flux is not a metaphor anymore, but a concrete process of city fluidification, disintegration, or solidification.
Romain Leclercq
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Urbanisation et Urbanisme dans les Montagnes Rifaines (Maroc)

Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2004
GROUPE DE RECHERCHES GÉOGRAPHIQUES SUR LE RIF  (ed.) Urbanisation et Urbanisme dans les Montagnes Rifaines (Maroc) Série: «Etudes spatiales», nº 1 Tétouan (Marroc): Groupe de Recherches Géographiques sur le Rif (G.R.G. Rif), 2002, 435 p. ISBN: 9954-8232-
José Luis Villanova
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Approvisionnement alimentaire parisien du XVIIIe au XXIe siècle : les flux et leur gouvernance. Récit d’une trajectoire socioécologique

Natures Sciences Sociétés, 2018
Le système qui assure l’approvisionnement alimentaire des villes actuelles n’a pas toujours été mondial et privé, mais a longtemps été une prérogative des pouvoirs publics.
Bognon Sabine, Barles Sabine, Billen Gilles, Garnier Josette   +3 more
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Le vivant au cœur des évolutions attendues d’un urbanisme confronté à la transition écologique. Lecture croisée des 23e et 24e éditions des Rencontres internationales en urbanisme

Natures Sciences Sociétés
En croisant les résultats des deux éditions des Rencontres internationales en urbanisme (RIU) de l’Association pour la promotion de l’enseignement et de la recherche en aménagement et urbanisme (Aperau) de 2022 et 2023, cet article propose un retour ...
Boutahray Maha, Rudolf Florence
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Urban expansion and heritage threats: Preservation of Mansourah archaelogical site in Tlemcen, Algeria [PDF]

Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
As a rule, heritage plays a crucial role in shaping the identity of communities, with archaeological sites, in particular, being irreplaceable material witnesses of bygone eras.
Manar Triqui, Assoc. Prof. Fatima Mazouz, PhD   +1 more
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