L’expérience agricole des citadins dans les jardins collectifs urbains : le cas de Montpellier by Pascale Scheromm

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Jardins partagés : une contribution habitante au système agri-alimentaire territorialisé rennais by Giulia Giacchè, Yvon Le Caro

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Operationalising “loveability”: an interdisciplinary approach to enriching quality of life experiences in cities through creative cultural spaces by Mizan Rambhoros, Raymond Richard Neutra, Rosa Cerarols, Matthew Pelowski

“…Loveability represents an emerging answer for enriching urban quality of life. The idea prioritises city dwellers’ emotional connections with psycho-spatial aspects of cities, beyond mere infrastructure, functionality, or services (“liveability”), which may not fully support positive wellbeing, especially in European cities. …”
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Pratiques d'une métropole émergente par les usagers des transports en commun, le cas du Cap, Afrique du Sud by Solène Baffi

“…Those changes are especially visible in the urban space due to the spatial mismatch which still characterizes the city and keeps on isolating township dwellers from benefiting the city's opportunities, especially in terms of labour. …”
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“Walls of Words”: Paperscape in Charles Dickens’s Novels by Céline PREST

“…This change initiates a new urban experience: walls now directly address the city dweller who is perpetually asked to decipher disparate messages. …”
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Les ateliers-promenades : des expériences sensibles (paysagères) habitantes aux micro-interventions urbaines by Théa Manola, Émeline Bailly, Hervé Duret

“…This article presents a methodology for analysing the emotional relations between urban dwellers and their environment. In a context of increased insistence on a more “sensitive” city, and of an equally impoverished approach to urban projects, this article seeks to enrich the notion of an urban design more respectful of the meanings and experiences inhabitants attribute to places. …”
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Trento Social Commons. Community Engagement as Tools for New Physical and Cultural Relationships Between Rural and Peripheral Spaces by Alessandro Gretter, Chiara Rizzi, Sara Favargiotti, Alessandro Betta, Giovanna Ulrici

“…Moreover, urbanization expansion process in the Alps is strongly related with temporary dynamics depending from touristic fluxes, implementation of new spaces of mobility, economic development and living.In a context of extreme land scarcity like in the Alps, urban sprawl and dwellers' search for nature proximity to homes and residential areas put territorial governance instruments under pressure and opens up complex questions.Beside other experiences between urban and peripheral spaces, the essay aims at speculating that typical rural communitarian governance models are able to strengthen collective interests over individual ones and can be translated into urban governance models by public authorities. …”
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Simulating Complex Urban Behaviours With AI: Incorporating Improved Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulation Models by Solon Solomou, Ulysses Sengupta

“…The conclusion discusses the potential of utilising cognitive agent architectures and the ability of these models to investigate complex urban patterns incorporating unpredictability, uncertainty, non-linearity, adaptability, evolution, and emergence. The experiment demonstrates the possibility of modelling with more intelligent agents for future city planning and policy.…”
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La haie coupe, l’eau relie. Les continuités écologiques requalifiées par les agriculteurs by Sandrine Petit, Perrine Vandenbroucke

“…Even though management approaches of farmers, city-dwellers and nature managers converge in mapping and categorizing natural resources, we advocate for a relational approach. …”
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S’approprier, c’est résister. Appropriations spatiales et mobilisation infra-politique des femmes en immobilité résidentielle et sociale dans les bidonvilles de Salé (Maroc)... by Myriame Ali-Oualla

“…Morocco’s shantytowns appeared in the first decades of the last century, bringing together people who had come from the countryside and the hinterland to meet the growing demand for labour in the imperial cities, which at that time represented the chief means of economic development. …”
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Le Parc Méric à Montpellier : représentations sociales d’un parc public entre campagne, jardin et nature sauvage by Gaëlle Aggéri

“…Motivated by the desire to use ecological engineering methods and of offering city dwellers a variety of green spaces ranging from the traditional sophisticated garden to “wild” open spaces, the directors of municipal parks and green spaces have experimented with what is called in France “La gestion différenciée” or “the differentiated management” of green spaces.Parallel with this essentially technical approach, the evolution of the idea of “urban nature”, demanded by the directors of municipal parks and green spaces, brought about the creation of alternative public parks, whose image and use refer strongly to the pastoral and “the wild”.This study investigates the physical and symbolic construction of this new type of nature, in particular with the example of the design and the social representations of the “Parc Méric” in Montpellier, a former bourgeois rural estate. …”
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Agriculture urbaine et habitat humain by Louiza Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie

“…But it still seems to be a marginal activity for a small fraction of the urban population with medium or low income. Experiences in Russia and other European countries show a phenomenon of greater magnitude which can interest most city dwellers. …”
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