Toulouse/Tolosa, cité des Tolosates et Auch/Elimberris, cité des Ausques : des centres de pouvoir indigènes aux capitales romaines by Philippe Gardes

“…The situation changes at the beginning of the Christian era, with the creation of capitals whose programme of urbanism responds to the new administrative and legal requirements of the Augustan reforms.…”
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Bâtir avec le moustique tigre : trois villes des Bouches-du-Rhône à l’épreuve de la prolifération d’Aedes albopictus, insecte nuisant et vecteur de maladies by Julie Cardi

“…It takes a socio-urban approach, using urbanism, architecture and sociology tools to link urban forms and their actors in order to study mosquitoes and vector diseases in buildings and in the cities of Arles, Marseille and Salon-de-Provence. …”
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Automation and the City by Iris Giannakopoulou Karamouzi

“…Constant’s vision, a critique of functionalist modern urbanism, imagined the city as a ‘complete environment’, part of an extended and dynamic activity that involved its inhabitants. …”
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La gare à un mètre by Nacima Baron, Yinghua Ma

“…Articulating the approaches of crowding science and health regulation in transit environments, the article presents a transcontinental comparison, and then questions the status of major station as post pandemic urbanism showroom.…”
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La dimension transitoire et d’expérimentation des tiers-lieux : des trajectoires individuelles à l’essaimage de pratiques by Cécile Gauthier, Pierre Pech, Richard Raymond

“…This article examines the scope of temporary urbanism projects regarding the socio-ecological transition. …”
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La place du paysage dans l’action des parcs naturels régionaux depuis la loi Paysage (1993) by Pierre Dérioz

“…Still, even if the landscape holds a central place in park actions, here analysed through the cases of five RNP in southern France with which the author has privileged scientific links, the legal obligation for all documents of urbanism to conform to the orientations of the RNP charters has proven more difficult to implement. …”
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Knowledge of the earthquake in architecture and its impact on the organization of the geography of habitation by Ali Asgharzadeh, Seyed Gholamreza Islami, Iraj Etessam

“…Earthquake and fault lines can be considered as an organizing factor, which play an important but hidden role in the geography of habitation, e.g. settlement location, urban spatial network, urban development and spatial-structural network of buildings. …”
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Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…This paper scrutinises Benjamin’s interest in the urban fabric of nineteenth century Paris, and compares it to contemporary writings on Paris and on (more generally) new forms of urbanism in the journalistic work of Joseph Roth. …”
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Prise en compte de la diversité végétale arborée chez les paysagistes by Brice Dacheux-Auzière, Audrey Marco, Yves Petit-Berghem

“…The study if these documents has made it possible to identify four major “eras” which not only contributed to changing the way of thinking about and designing projects, but also integrated and used the arborescent plant as a defining component in the development of major parks and private domains from the 17th century up until today, and which have now become public and urban spaces. Thus, from the 17th to the 20th century, spanning from the art of classic gardens to the trend of functional urbanism, the article shows how it is possible to identify the parameters relating to forms of organisation, structure and practise which point to the early presence of tree diversity. …”
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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“…The essay concludes with the contention that if populist politics tends towards a monocultural architecture and urbanism, then a built environment that allows room for different forms, ideas and agendas may itself help foster a politics of pluralism. …”
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The second life of micro-organisms. Bio-digital design for a new ecology of space and behaviour by Alessandro Valenti, Claudia Pasquero

“…To reflect today, as designers and researchers, on the issue of Second Life, is to pose questions not only about the potential contemporary articulations of the term within a disciplinary field defined by knowledge that intertwines sectors like Urbanism, Architecture, Interior Design and Design but also to explore the very concept of life rendering living organisms – both human and not – as an active part of the speculation and the eventual experimentations giving new meaning to actions like regeneration or reuse. …”
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MODELISATION DU PLAN D’URBANISME DE LA VILLE D’EL EULMA (ALGÉRIE). APPORT DE L’INTELLIGENCE TERRITORIALE DANS LA GOUVERNANCE URBAINE by AKAKBA AHMED, KALLA MAHDI, DRIDI HADDA, FILLALI ABDELWAHHAB

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Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73 by Mark Swenarton

“…Under borough architect Sydney Cook, Camden aimed to establish a new kind of housing architecture based, not on the Corbusian tabula rasa, but on a radical reinterpretation of traditional English urbanism. The outcome was a series of projects, including Fleet Road, Alexandra Road, Highgate New Town, Branch Hill and Maiden Lane, designed by members of Cook’s team, including Neave Brown, Peter Tábori and Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth, as well as projects designed by up-and-coming private architects like Colquhoun & Miller, Edward Cullinan and Farrell Grimshaw. …”
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Environments (out) of Control by Lorinc Vass, Roy Cloutier, Nicole Sylvia, Contingent Collective

“…The article thus maps the cybernetic imaginary ‘at large’ across architecture – alongside landscape architecture and urbanism – under various guises such as adaptation, responsiveness, cultivation, resilience or conversation. …”
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Transferts, hybridations et renouvellements des savoirs. Parcours urbanistique et architectural de Michel Écochard de 1932 à 1974 by Marlène Ghorayeb

“…From the outset, he claimed without ambiguity to be the spokesperson for French expertise, both in architecture and urban planning. He advocated for the implementation of the modern movement’s principles as well as urban theories which marked the development of cities in the post-war years. …”
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Retour sur l’arc d’Orange (Vaucluse), son environnement et sa datation by Djamila Fellague

“…This article proposes a re-examination of the Arch of Orange based on ancient and recent data collected in urbanism and archeology. It is also the occasion for the author to share her thoughts concerning the scientific method that mostly relies on hypotheses. …”
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Les capitales des cités gauloises, simulacra Romae ? by Michel Reddé

“…Does the classic notion of the Mediterranean town, the model of urbanism for the new civitas-capitals founded by Rome in the provinces after the Conquest, respond to an archaeological reality or is it an ‘‘Idealtyp’’? …”
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Rennes/Condate, cité des Riédons : aux origines d’une ville-capitale by Gaétan Le Cloirec, Dominique Pouille, Françoise Labaune-Jean, Paul-André Besombes, Stéphane Jean, Thierry Lorho

“…Although they were all located in the northern half of the civitas-capital of the Riedones, the evidence they have furnished has profoundly renewed our vision of urban organization between the 1st and the 4th c. …”
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Espaço vivido e espaço mental: Dalton Trevisan e a dicotomia social do urbanismo curitibano by Nelson H. Vieira

“…This essay deals with the short stories of Dalton Trevisan and the city of Curitiba within the context of urbanism as “lived space”, using André Lefebvre’s terminology, with the aim of understanding the social dichotomy between a rural mentality and an urban modernity. …”
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Angers/Iuliomagus, cité des Andécaves, et Le Mans/Vindinum, cité des Cénomans : deux capitales, deux modes de déploiement urbain by Pierre Chevet, Martin Pithon

“…Iuliomagus and Vindinum, two neighbouring civitas-capitals, witnessed urban development with two very different dynamics, highlighting distinct conditions of development. …”
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