Hoc monimentum maesoleumque : les monuments funéraires dans le paysage des cités des Gaules et des Germanies romaines by Martial Monteil, William Van Andringa

“…The earliest of them date back to the first period of the Augustan era, others were built in the fourth-fifth centuries, while a number of them disappeared with the construction of urban enclosures. However, some were dismantled long before this period, sometimes even as early as the 1st c. …”
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La Collaboration comme mode d’exercice au sein de l’agence d’architecture d’Eugène Beaudouin by Anne-Sophie Cachat-Suchet

“…The first part of the career of the architect and urban planner Eugène Beaudouin was marked by his fruitful collaboration with Marcel Lods, between 1925 and 1940. …”
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From Exchange to Inter-knowledge: Ethnography and the Invisible Facts of Political Work by Julieta Quirós

“…Drawing on ethnographic observation from different contexts- both rural and urban areas-, the case is made for the need to rescue analytically the concept of agency and the importance of personal relations that both common sense and the scholarly literature often consider politically “weak”. …”
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Capítulo 4 — Restauración de los Árboles Después de Un Huracán by Edward F. Gilman, Traci Partin

“…Gilman and Traci Partin, is the Spanish language version of ENG-1054, Restoring Trees after a Hurricane. It is part of the Urban Forest Hurricane Recovery Program series. It provides a step-by-step guide for restoring trees after a hurricane or windstorm so that trees can bring beauty and shade back to the community with reduced risk. …”
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“Gay Paradise – kind of”. Les espaces de l’homosexualité masculine à Beyrouth. by Marie Bonte

“…By studying places of self-expression and sociability or cruising areas of gay people in Beirut, the article questions the constitution of a gay Lebanese identity and the creation of a homosexual public within the urban public space. To this end, the work on spaces of nightlife and gay cruising areas is attempting to consider the links between local norms and dominant global logics of flows of sexual identities. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Traffic Accidents in Shanghai River Crossing Tunnels and Safety Countermeasures by Linjun Lu, Jian Lu, Yingying Xing, Chen Wang, Fuquan Pan

“…However, few studies have been reported to analyze traffic accidents that have occurred in urban road tunnels. This study aims to examine the characteristics of the temporal, spatial, and modality distributions of traffic in Shanghai river crossing tunnels using statistical analysis and comparative analysis. …”
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New Figurations in Architecture Theory: From Queer Performance to Becoming Trans by Robert Alexander Gorny, Dirk van den Heuvel

“…The editorial introduction to this Footprint issue maps some of the latest developments in the field of queer studies and the realm of architecture and urban design. The aim is for a productive exhange between the fields since queer theory can be instrumental in moving beyond the heteronormative dominance in architectural thinking, which is characterized by an essentialist approach based on binary notions, rather than an understanding of architecture as an interface in material processes of becoming and producing differences. …”
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Borders of Wealth and Poverty: Ideas Stimulated by Comparing the Mediterranean and U.S.-Mexico Borders by Josiah Heyman, Natalia Ribas-Mateos

“…The processes of interchange at borders, in turn, support important urban zones and other communities that merit close ethnographic study for their social and cultural complexity.…”
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Des controverses en éducation au paysage : quels enjeux éducatifs, finalités didactiques et modalités pédagogiques ? by Virginie Albe

“…To do so we conducted two literature reviews in geography and urban planning and in social sciences and educational sciences. …”
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Investigation of RF Signal Energy Harvesting by Soudeh Heydari Nasab, Mohammad Asefi, Lutfi Albasha, Naser Qaddoumi

“…The work presented shows field measurements from two selected regions: an urbanized hence signal congested area and a less populated one. …”
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Mlake – a hotspot of butterfly diversity in Slovenia by Rudi Verovnik, Marko Kosmač, Peter Valič

“…Among these, 23 species have been recognized as nationally or continentally threatened. Due to recent urbanization, the total area suitable for butterflies has been reduced to less than half, however, the effects on butterfly diversity of the area are not yet visible. …”
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Rôle joué par l’économie informelle dans l’appropriation des TIC en milieu urbain en Afrique de l’Ouest by Annie Cheneau-Loquay

“…Having explained briefly what we understand by “informal” according to various disciplinary approaches, we shall show how the insertion and the appropriation of the ICTs in the African cities gives place to a proliferation of new activities of service which are embedded in the urban fabric, adapt themselves to the low level of income of the populations and generate more or less qualified jobs which recover totally or partially from informal practices. …”
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L’alternance codique dans le rap algérien et tunisien by Felix Wiedemann

“…Hip-hop culture in general and especially rap music are important ways of expression for urban Algerian and Tunisian youths. Hence rappers use their songs to speak of everyday life and to address personal and socio-political problems. …”
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Retour d’expérience sur le développement participatif d’un jeu sérieux à destination des professionnels de l’acte de construire et d’aménager by Fanny Coulombié, Véronique Dufour

“…Ville & Aménagement Durable developed the serious game called VADemecum in order to strengthen the interchanges between the various stakeholders involved in spatial development and urban planning. In this role-playing game, participants design and develop a project in a collaborative way. …”
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A Decision-Making Model Using Machine Learning for Improving Dispatching Efficiency in Chengdu Shuangliu Airport by Yingmiao Qian, Shuhang Chen, Jianchang Li, Qinxin Ren, Jinfu Zhu, Ruijia Yuan, Hao Su

“…Due to the increasing number of people traveling by air, the passenger flow at the airport is increasing, and the problem of passenger drop-off and pickup has a huge impact on urban traffic. The difficulty of taking a taxi at the airport is still a hot issue in the society. …”
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La maison de la Harpiste et son décor à Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) : nouvelles données sur l’occupation tardo-républicaine d’Arelate by Marie-Pierre Rothé, Julien Boislève, Sébastien Barberan

“…Since 2013 the excavations carried out on the site of La Verrerie, situated on the right bank of the river Rhône, completely changed the issue concerning the urban plan and about the transition from the Protohistoric town to the Roman ruled colony set up in 46 or 45 BC, but also the question raised by the import of Italic know-how in Gaul, detected through the plan, architecture and decoration of a house dated to the first half of the 1st c. …”
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L’essor de la résilience ou la promotion de nouvelles cultures du risque autour de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques ? by Florence Rudolf

“…This question was in the core of the communications about the framing of urban spaces and buildings to face climate changes, which have taken place at the congress of Acfas in may 2014 at the University of Concordia in Montreal.…”
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GPS Position Prediction Method Based on Chaotic Map-Based Flower Pollination Algorithm by Wanjun Yang, Zengwu Sun

“…GPS position data prediction can effectively alleviate urban traffic, population flow, route planning, etc. …”
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Un « sport noir » ? by Nicolas Martin-Breteau

“…For more than a century, this athletic domination has given rise to heated controversies: most of the time it was explained using genetics (Blacks are athletically superior) or environmental theories (the poverty of urban Blacks leads them toward sports). However, one can see in this domination a political will to fight for equality, dignity, and recognition. …”
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Exploring spatial justice in times of disruptions: Introduction to the special issue by Lena Greinke, Peter Schmitt, Rainer Danielzyk

“…As such, the concept of spatial justice prompts a rethink of many of the substantial challenges of urban and regional development, which explains its topicality amongst policymakers and academics alike. …”
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