The outdoor urban space vocation for temporariness between past and present by Timothy Daniel Brownlee

“…The temporariness vocation in the open urban spaces use is an element that strongly characterizes the pre-contemporary city. Even if we have lost evident physical traces, various kinds of temporary devices have always qualified the streets and squares of the cities, being placed side by side with a permanent supporting framework. …”
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Espaces vécus et imaginés des rencontres amoureuses aux Émirats arabes unis by Laure Assaf

“…The recent urban space of Emirati cities crystallizes indeed social norms that are reinforced by the coexistence of varied populations. …”
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Fronteira Brasil-Uruguai: interações espaciais, reivindicações territoriais e políticas públicas de desenvolvimento by Camilo Pereira Carneiro, Gabriel Silva Ribeiro, Letícia Eugênia Pereira de Morais

“…In this sense, this paper brings a contemporary approach, based on Political Geography, of development public policies and spatial interactions in the twin cities on the Brazil-Uruguay border. Initially, the text addresses the historical formation of the Brazil-Uruguay border. …”
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L’émergence au prisme du tourisme chinois by Benjamin Taunay, Philippe Violier

“…Since the mid 1990s, a new leisure class has emerged in Chinese cities. With more and more income, Chinese resident access to tourism and it is assumed in this paper that leisure is essential in contemporary Chinese society’s understanding. …”
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Base documentaire sur les artisanats gallo-romains en Lyonnaise et dans les cités du nord et de l’est de l’Aquitaine : Corpus de données. Présentation by Alain Ferdière

“…An important body of all types of craft industries has been built up for the Roman period and is accessible here in context: it concerns the whole of the Lyonnaise Roman province (from Finistère to Lyonnais) as well as the cities of the north and of greater Aquitaine, from the Pictons to the west to the Gabales to the south-east. …”
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Le rôle des séries télévisées turques dans la circulation des modèles urbains et des modes d’habiter en Iran by Mina Saïdi-Sharouz

“…How the Turkish series contribute first to the development of tourism, then to the informal importation of the prêt-à-porter and finally to the opening of the Iranian market on the products of furniture and architecture, real economic pole which transforms the modes to live and acts gradually on the spaces of Iranian cities.…”
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Classification et valeurs thérapeutiques des plantes ornementales du Togo by Raoufou Radji, Kouami Kokou

“…In an increasingly urbanized environment, the need for greenery and flowers is being more and more felt for aesthetic reasons and ecological benefits. In the cities of Togo, area of this study, more than six hundred species of horticultural plants are identified and composed of approximately 59 % of Dicotyledons (49 families, 145 genera and 315 species) and 37.37 % of Monocotyledons. …”
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La participation communautaire pour définir la ville viable : questionnement sur l’appropriation de l’espace urbain by Éric Duchemin

“…Structure for citizen participation in the life of their districts and/or wards, and to be actively involved in decision processes is a key for sustainable cities.  Furthermore, stakeholders should integrate common sense and uncertainties in decision processes to attain an urban sustainability.  …”
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The urban security project by Roberto Bolici, Matteo Gambaro

“…This essay aims to critically re-read the birth and evolution of design methodologies aimed at improving safety conditions and quality of life in cities. In particular, referring to the American cultural context and the birth of the CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) – that first experienced the environmental approach to urban safety – three recent French experiences are analyzed from the urban scale to that of the building artefact and the Italian reality takes stock, also in the light of the recent Legislative Decree of 2017 and the 2010 UNI Standard that punctually outlines an articulated design approach, in fact inapplicable.…”
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La place de l’artisanat en Gaule romaine du Centre, Nord-Ouest et Centre-Ouest (province de Lyonnaise et cités d’Aquitaine septentrionale) by Alain Ferdière

“…Thus, we can make some suggestive remarks, on the one hand regarding the capital cities of the civitates, the secondary towns and the countryside relative participation in this subject, on the other hand regarding the location of the different craft industries, especially the successive phases of their operative networks.…”
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Futurs antérieurs : imaginaires spatio-temporels de la planification au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco by Bernard Debarbieux

“…This article shows that, in these contexts, the imaginations of time and space that have guided heritage and urban planning together are rooted in different registers, expressing different ways of thinking about the past, present and future, as well as about heritage-objects, historic districts and cities as a whole.…”
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Port Sunlight, essai architectural et social by Laurence Machet

“…The purpose of this article is to examine the city of Port Sunlight, its history, design and originality. …”
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Southern Escambia County, Florida's Urban Forests by Francisco Escobedo, Sebastian Varela, Christina Staudhammer, Benjamin Thompson

“…FOR231, a 12-page illustrated fact sheet by Francisco Escobedo, Sebastian Varela, Christina Staudhammer, and Benjamin Thompson, reports on analysis of tree data using USDA Forest Service's Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) model, to help urban foresters, residents, and planners assess several aspects of their urban forests and compare southern Escambia County’s urban forest with forests in other cities in the state of Florida. Includes references. …”
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Renaissance des potagers, naissance d’une profession by Anne Luxereau

“…In Niger as well as in the other West African countries, cities and middle-sized towns have now a green belt of vegetables and fruit gardens that modify landscapes.…”
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Trouver le chemin de la grâce : les villes rebelles et leurs stratégies pour rétablir le dialogue avec le souverain (royaume de France, seconde moitié du XVe siècle) by Adrien Carbonnet

“…Repression of urban uprisings in the second half of the 15th century gave rise to negotiations between the king and the city. However, the search for agreement is rarely mentioned in the documentation. …”
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Dance Tourism Business Models in Seville and Buenos Aires: dimensions of meaning of intangible cultural assets in destination management by Tatjana Thimm

“…Moreover, as intangible world cultural assets, flamenco and tango have acquired considerable importance for the destination image of both cities. The ‘governance of global value chains’ model of Gereffi et al. (2005) is here applied in adapted form to flamenco and tango dance tourism in order to derive dimensions of meaning in destination management.…”
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La production de terres cuites architecturales en Gaule et dans l’Occident romain, à la lumière de l’exemple de la Lyonnaise et des cités du nord-est de l’Aquitaine : un artisanat... by Alain Ferdière

“…The question asked is about the local character of architectural terra-cotta (tiles, bricks...) in the Roman period : from the examination of the question on a Roman ‘world’ scale, at least the western parts and particularly of Gaul, the author produces an inventory of workshops for the province of Lyon and the cities North-west of the province of Aquitaine. The economic and social consequences are examined.…”
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De Bosra à Palmyre, l’archéologie face au chaos by Pierre-Marie Blanc

“…Two main cities from antique Syria, as Palmyra and Bosra (Bostra), classified in the Unesco World Heritage list, have, within the syrian war since 2011, tragical but different destinity. …”
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The Performance of Domestic Wastewater Sludge –Sawdust Clay Bricks. by Tukwatsiibwe, Ivan

“…The sludge presents an increasingly difficult problem to cities of all sizes because of the scarcity of suitable disposal sites, increasing labour costs, and environmental concerns. …”
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A relação entre caipiras e o processo de urbanização na música sertaneja entre as décadas de 1920 e 1980 by Jóyce Oliveira Leitão

“…This exclusion led to the expulsion of caipiras from rural areas and compelled them to the live and work in the cities. The intensification of the expulsion of these workers from rural areas and the quick urbanization coincided with the emergence of sertaneja music and widespread consumption of products linked to this music, like radio programs and records. …”
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