De la production paysagère à la formation des paysages vécus à Conakry (Guinée) by Julie Gangneux-Kebe

“…In Conakry, a capital city shaped ex nihilo, pre-colonial landscapes within the city were erased. …”
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Déguerpissements et déplacements forcé à Addis-Abeba by Bezunesh Tamru

“…In a predominantly liberalized economy, Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital city, is experiencing urban beautification and real estate development operations politically labeled “as smart city”. …”
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BLEISURE AND INFORMAL BUSINESS TOURISM IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE by Logistic MAKONI, Christian M. ROGERSON

“…Using a survey of 700 informal business tourists in Harare, Zimbabwe, the results show that the accommodation choices and the bleisure activities undertaken by these informal business tourists in Zimbabwe’s capital city are markedly different to those reported in studies of business travellers from the Global North. …”
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OOPERATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED TOURISM ENTERPRISES (SMTES) WITH TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS IN THE MAŁOPOLSKA REGION – TOP MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE APPROACH by KRZYSZTOF BORODAKO

“…This research used an email survey sent to tourism CEOs, directors or owners of SMTEs in the Małopolska Region, focusing on its capital city - Cracow (Poland). All three groups of respondents in SMTEs were understood in the research as the top management of these companies. …”
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Jérusalem, entre attraction et répulsion migratoire by Irène Salenson

“…Similarly, despite the fact that Jerusalem is designated as capital city by the Hebrew State, and claimed as capital by the Palestinian Authority, the migration’s movements affecting Jerusalem are not exclusively political, even if political grounds may explain part of the flow. …”
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Les migrantes de retour dans la Corne de l’Afrique by Amina Saïd Chiré, Bezunesh Tamru

“…These returns and "final staying’s" are more frequent in urban areas, the Ethiopian case shows also that secondary towns and the suburbs of the capital city are areas mostly preferred by returnees. …”
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From Uniformity towards Unequality in Regional Development Policy: The Case of France by Ildikó Egyed

“…However, from the second half of the 20th century, the unified national territory was increasingly subject to a „two-speed” development, with declining socio-economic conditions outside the zone of influence of the capital city. Spatial disparities and the fear of the desertification of rural areas due to the generalisation of industrialisation and the rapid extension of the Fordist capitalist accumulation regime constituted the background of the genesis of spatial planning to serve as a counterbalance to spontaneous processes of spatial polarisation.…”
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Le street art, outil de valorisation territoriale et touristique : l’exemple de la Galeria de Arte Urbana de Lisbonne by Alexandre Grondeau, Florence Pondaven

“…The lisboet's Galeria de Arte Urbana is a regional planning operation which consists in institutionalizing the practice of street art in the capital city of Portugal for territorial and touristic valorization purposes. …”
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Ville de la connaissance et terreau numérique by Henry Bakis, Alexandre Schon

“…In the mid-60s, the town’s selection as the County’s Capital city determined the implantation of numerous public research centers in the Health and the Agronomy sectors in particular. …”
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Povoar e enquadrar by Maria Filomena Andrade, João Luís Fontes

“…The very peculiar qualities of the city, possessed of an intense economic life, a growing population, a royal court that sojourned there with increasing regularity and for increasingly prolonged periods, attracted more and more people from diverse regions and stimulated the rapacity of noblemen and rich merchants who contributed to its rise as the capital city of the Kingdom. It also made Lisbon particularly attractive to the religious orders who, between them, contested the urban space, its populations, and its resources. …”
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LOCAL INITIATIVES FOR THE UNEMPLOYMENT COUNTERACTION IN THE MAZOVIA PROVINCE by Marzena Kacprzak

“…On the one hand, there is highly developed capital city Warsaw and on the other - peripheral areas with worse parameters. …”
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Las colonias escolares durante la Guerra Civil : el caso de la colonia de Navajas de la Diputación de Madrid como contrapunto a la propaganda by Karine Lapeyre

“…When the Junta de Madrid decided to evacuate the capital city, it sent children to the colonies. The press narrated their evacuation and their relocation to Levante. …”
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« La deuxième communauté noire la plus prospère du pays » : l’espoir d’une vie en banlieue résidentielle à Atlanta pour les migrant·es africain·es-américain·es by Nicolas Raulin

“…This article looks at the emergence of Atlanta's reputation as a new promised land for the country's black residents, highlighting the role of the press and migrants themselves in developing a narrative praising the promise of life in Georgia's capital city. I also examine local actions that have been instrumental in the development of this oasis for the black middle class: private initiatives and collective mobilizations are crucial to the constitution of this haven for affluent black residents. …”
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The Establishment of Ramadan Principality by Fatma Akkuş Yiğit

“…They formed three regentships named as Ayas, Tarsus and Sis and constantly supervised these three cities by sending regents from the capital city, Cairo. Despite the attitude of Mamluks, Ibrahim Beg, successor of Ramadan, who took courage from the achievements of Dulkadirids, allying with them revolted against Mamluks, but this revolt did not produce result and moreover cost his life. …”
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Aménagement forestier et lutte contre la pauvreté au Burkina Faso by Boukary Ouedraogo

“…This survey has covered 355 woodcutters of 24 villages located between 35 km and 250 km from Ouagadougou the capital city of this country. A preliminary approach of woodcutters’ income structure has revealed the magnitude of wood fuel income on their other income sources, and also the great contribution of this activity on the improvement of woodcutters’ living conditions. …”
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1923-1950 Arası Dönemde Ankara Kentleşmesi ve Sorunları by İbrahim İRDEM, Asilkan LENGER

“…Ankara entered a process of rapid growth and immigration along with the declaration of it as the capital city in 1923. After becoming the capital, Ankara, by evolving into a construction site and along with the continuous immigration, witnessed the process in which the prices of houses, lands and rents increased rapidly. …”
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Le rôle fondateur du paysage dans la création des villes coloniales marocaines by Mounia Bennani

“…In April 2010, during the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Rabat – the capital city of Morocco – was awarded the title of “Green City”. …”
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Gender and experiences of retaliation by Kely César Martins de Paiva, Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray, Mariana Branquinho Macedo, Jesuína Maria Pereira Ferreira, Gizelle Souza Mageste, Michelle Regina Santana Dutra

“…We have interviewed 20 call center agents (9 men and 11 women) in Belo Horizonte, the capital city of Minas Gerais state, in Brazil. We fully transcribed all interviews and subjected the data to discourse analysis (the French approach). …”
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Metropolisation and the Evoluti on of Systems of Cities in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland Since 1950 by Natalia Zdanowska

“…By analysing the changes in urban hierarchy and new urban patterns, we can stress that after 1989 the metropolisation has rather contributed to raise the predominance of the capital city in the urban systems than to diminish inequalities between the cities.…”
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Newborn Care Practices among Mother-Infant Dyads in Urban Uganda by Violet Okaba Kayom, Abel Kakuru, Sarah Kiguli

“…A community based cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in the capital city of Uganda from February to May 2012. Quantitative and qualitative data on the newborn care practices of eligible mothers were collected. …”
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