This collection of urban studies research and interpretation crosses the country from Quebec to B.C., comparing trends and perspectives over the past decade and across and beyond disciplines. Core questions of research, policy and practice facing Montreal and Vancouver—those featuring housing and transportation, in particular—are featured in terms of new and innovative directions. Emerging questions—about urban indigeneity, food systems, climate action—are broached in challenging ways. The twenty authors whose original work is compiled here demonstrate the scope for continued, critical, comparative conversation across francophone and anglophone divides. The book offers a significant resource for understanding the intersecting field and practice of urban studies in Quebec and in B.C. and for spurring its further evolution. A French version of this book is also available
, following the CODOR meeting of 12 June 1997, set up a steering group by the Urban Planning Department. The group consisted of the following members of CODOR: P. MASSINI of FNSEM, J.P. PORTEFAIT of SFU, M. BELLIOT de la FNAU, P. MFA XAMBEU; and representatives of DGUHC, DR, CETE Nord Picardie and COP. The aim of the group was to advance the methods and conduct of studies on the basis of the parallel examination of urban policies in two medium-sized cities, Compiègne and St Orner. For each agglomeration, a retrospective analysis of the most prominent studies and approaches carried out in 15-20 years has been carried out, followed by an identification of the reference system to which these studies follow. Finally, by comparison, the conditions and factors for the success of the approaches and studies carried out in these two agglomerations were highlighted. In addition to the results of this work, two avenues for continuing this work are proposed: — use the method of analysis to take advantage of it in the context of the reflection provided for in the CERTU 1999 work programme on territorial diagnosis; — use the content of the monographs on indicators and the reference system in the context of the ACTOR programme (Analysis Concerted on Transformations and Urbains Equilibres). In both cases, a technical approach based on indicators or scenarios is not perceived, which looks at policy coherence or the degree of integration as defined by CERTU. There is no instrumentation in the observation of urban mechanisms and in the orientation or reorientation of the territorial project. The coherence or quality of integration of studies and planning approaches is based on permanent objectives and appropriate partnership strategies, not on technical rationality. ; A la suite du CODOR du 12 juin 1997 un groupe de pilotage a été mis en place par le département Urbanisme. Ce groupe se composait des membres du CODOR suivants : P. MASSINI de la FNSEM, J .P. PORTEFAIT de la SFU, M . BELLIOT de la FNAU, P . XAMBEU de l'AMF ; ainsi ...
, following the CODOR meeting of 12 June 1997, set up a steering group by the Urban Planning Department. The group consisted of the following members of CODOR: P. MASSINI of FNSEM, J.P.PORTEFAIT of SFU, M. BELLIOT de la FNAU, P. MFA XAMBEU; as well as representatives of DGUHC, DR, CETE Nord Picardie and COP.The group's objective was to advance the methods and conduct of studies on the basis of the parallel examination of urban policies carried out in two medium-sized cities, Compiègne and St Orner.For each agglomeration, a retrospective analysis of the most significant studies and approaches carried out in the past 15-20 years, followed by an identification of the reference system to which these studies follow. Lastly, a comparison has been made of the conditions and factors for the success of the approaches and studies carried out in these two agglomerations.In addition to the results of this work, two avenues are proposed for continuing it: — use the method of analysis to take advantage of it in the context of the discussion provided for in the CERTU 1999 work programme on territorial diagnosis; — make use of the content of the monographs on indicators and the reference system in the context of the ACTEUR programme (Analysis of Transformations and Urbains Equilibres). In both cases, a technical approach based on indicators or scenarios is not perceived, which looks at policy coherence or the degree of integration as defined by CERTU. There is no instrumentation in the observation of urban mechanisms and in the orientation or reorientation of the territorial project. The coherence or quality of integration of studies and planning approaches is based on permanent objectives and appropriate partnership strategies, not on technical rationality. ; A la suite du CODOR du 12 juin 1997 un groupe de pilotage a été mis en place par le département Urbanisme. Ce groupe se composait des membres du CODOR suivants : P. MASSINI de la FNSEM, J .P.PORTEFAIT de la SFU, M . BELLIOT de la FNAU, P . XAMBEU de l'AMF ; ainsi que des ...
International audience ; The article reviews the conditions for the creation of Métropoles, but also looks at what makes its originality. From the very beginning, the exclusively online review and access to its articles has been free. Métropoles made the metropolitan fact its central object at a time when the issue was not at the center of political or scientific concerns. It was conceived from the outset as a multidisciplinary journal. Ten years after its creation, Métropoles has somehow been caught up by history. "Metropolization" in all its forms is at the heart of many public debates, at both national and local level. The editorial landscape has also expanded, with many publications, of an academic nature or oriented towards a broader audience, tackling the metropolitan fact. In this changing landscape, Métropoles has nevertheless kept its originality. It is one of the few journals where the hypothesis according to which metropolises constitute environments that can secrete specific political operations, practices and mobilizations is taken seriously. ; L'article revient sur les conditions de création de la revue Métropoles, mais aussi sur ce qui fait son originalité. La revue est dès le départ uniquement en ligne et son accès est gratuit. Elle fait du fait métropolitain son objet central à une époque où la question n'est pas au centre des préoccupations politiques ou scientifiques. Elle est conçue dès le départ comme revue pluridisciplinaire. Dix ans après sa création, l'actualité a « rattrapé » Métropoles. La « métropolisation » sous toutes ses formes est au cœur de bien des débats publics, au plan national comme au niveau local. Le paysage éditorial s'est aussi étoffé de nombreuses publications, savantes ou à vocation vulgarisatrices, se saisissant du fait métropolitain. Dans ce paysage changeant, Métropoles a su toutefois gardé son originalité. C'est l'une des rares revues où l'hypothèse selon laquelle les métropoles constituent des environnements susceptibles de secréter des fonctionnements, pratiques ...
International audience ; The article reviews the conditions for the creation of Métropoles, but also looks at what makes its originality. From the very beginning, the exclusively online review and access to its articles has been free. Métropoles made the metropolitan fact its central object at a time when the issue was not at the center of political or scientific concerns. It was conceived from the outset as a multidisciplinary journal. Ten years after its creation, Métropoles has somehow been caught up by history. "Metropolization" in all its forms is at the heart of many public debates, at both national and local level. The editorial landscape has also expanded, with many publications, of an academic nature or oriented towards a broader audience, tackling the metropolitan fact. In this changing landscape, Métropoles has nevertheless kept its originality. It is one of the few journals where the hypothesis according to which metropolises constitute environments that can secrete specific political operations, practices and mobilizations is taken seriously. ; L'article revient sur les conditions de création de la revue Métropoles, mais aussi sur ce qui fait son originalité. La revue est dès le départ uniquement en ligne et son accès est gratuit. Elle fait du fait métropolitain son objet central à une époque où la question n'est pas au centre des préoccupations politiques ou scientifiques. Elle est conçue dès le départ comme revue pluridisciplinaire. Dix ans après sa création, l'actualité a « rattrapé » Métropoles. La « métropolisation » sous toutes ses formes est au cœur de bien des débats publics, au plan national comme au niveau local. Le paysage éditorial s'est aussi étoffé de nombreuses publications, savantes ou à vocation vulgarisatrices, se saisissant du fait métropolitain. Dans ce paysage changeant, Métropoles a su toutefois gardé son originalité. C'est l'une des rares revues où l'hypothèse selon laquelle les métropoles constituent des environnements susceptibles de secréter des fonctionnements, pratiques ...
International audience ; The article reviews the conditions for the creation of Métropoles, but also looks at what makes its originality. From the very beginning, the exclusively online review and access to its articles has been free. Métropoles made the metropolitan fact its central object at a time when the issue was not at the center of political or scientific concerns. It was conceived from the outset as a multidisciplinary journal. Ten years after its creation, Métropoles has somehow been caught up by history. "Metropolization" in all its forms is at the heart of many public debates, at both national and local level. The editorial landscape has also expanded, with many publications, of an academic nature or oriented towards a broader audience, tackling the metropolitan fact. In this changing landscape, Métropoles has nevertheless kept its originality. It is one of the few journals where the hypothesis according to which metropolises constitute environments that can secrete specific political operations, practices and mobilizations is taken seriously. ; L'article revient sur les conditions de création de la revue Métropoles, mais aussi sur ce qui fait son originalité. La revue est dès le départ uniquement en ligne et son accès est gratuit. Elle fait du fait métropolitain son objet central à une époque où la question n'est pas au centre des préoccupations politiques ou scientifiques. Elle est conçue dès le départ comme revue pluridisciplinaire. Dix ans après sa création, l'actualité a « rattrapé » Métropoles. La « métropolisation » sous toutes ses formes est au cœur de bien des débats publics, au plan national comme au niveau local. Le paysage éditorial s'est aussi étoffé de nombreuses publications, savantes ou à vocation vulgarisatrices, se saisissant du fait métropolitain. Dans ce paysage changeant, Métropoles a su toutefois gardé son originalité. C'est l'une des rares revues où l'hypothèse selon laquelle les métropoles constituent des environnements susceptibles de secréter des fonctionnements, pratiques et mobilisations politiques spécifiques est prise au sérieux.
The emergence and the structuration of urban studies constitutes one of the most striking change in the social sciences in Lebanon since the end of the civil war. This relates to the social and political context, that of reconstruction and urban modernisation in the last 30 years. But it is also linked to the changes affecting the academia and in particular its international insertion. Therefore, it is interesting to examine urban studies in Lebanon in a comparative perspective. On the one side, I take stock of the acknowledged specificities of urban studies, in particular the tension between academic structuration and links with policies. On the other side, it is necessary to account for the global reshuffling of this field, with the rise of questions stemming from Southern cities. This text starts by proposing an analytical framework pour studying urban studies in a country of the South; then it develops three main findings. First, the emergence of urban studies in Lebanon directly accompanied the mobilisations of intellectuals and scholars against the government's urban policies of reconstruction and planning. Second, the structuration of urban studies is occurring foremost in the academic sphere of urban planning, which is located inside the faculties of architecture. These places have access to uneven resources to access the international debates and the American University of Beirut stands out from this point of view. The state and local public actors played a minor role in the structuring of urban studies but there are various forms of coproduction of urban data and knowledge that associates academics, consultants and administrations. The rise of urban studies also strongly results from the development urban activism, particularly in the recent years. This has led to the adoption of new practices of coproduction of knowledge with the residents, as well as of now forms of dissemination to the public. The framework of "translational urban praxis" Susann Parnell and Edgar Pieterse proposed for South Africa ...
The emergence and the structuration of urban studies constitutes one of the most striking change in the social sciences in Lebanon since the end of the civil war. This relates to the social and political context, that of reconstruction and urban modernisation in the last 30 years. But it is also linked to the changes affecting the academia and in particular its international insertion. Therefore, it is interesting to examine urban studies in Lebanon in a comparative perspective. On the one side, I take stock of the acknowledged specificities of urban studies, in particular the tension between academic structuration and links with policies. On the other side, it is necessary to account for the global reshuffling of this field, with the rise of questions stemming from Southern cities. This text starts by proposing an analytical framework pour studying urban studies in a country of the South; then it develops three main findings. First, the emergence of urban studies in Lebanon directly accompanied the mobilisations of intellectuals and scholars against the government's urban policies of reconstruction and planning. Second, the structuration of urban studies is occurring foremost in the academic sphere of urban planning, which is located inside the faculties of architecture. These places have access to uneven resources to access the international debates and the American University of Beirut stands out from this point of view. The state and local public actors played a minor role in the structuring of urban studies but there are various forms of coproduction of urban data and knowledge that associates academics, consultants and administrations. The rise of urban studies also strongly results from the development urban activism, particularly in the recent years. This has led to the adoption of new practices of coproduction of knowledge with the residents, as well as of now forms of dissemination to the public. The framework of "translational urban praxis" Susann Parnell and Edgar Pieterse proposed for South Africa helps to understand these new practices of translation between different social groups and publics. ; L'émergence et la structuration des études urbaines constituent des modifications parmi les plus frappantes au sein des sciences sociales au Liban depuis la fin de la guerre civile. Cela renvoie à la fois à une actualité sociale et politique, celle de la reconstruction et de la modernisation des villes dans les trente dernières années. Mais cela est également lié à des mutations du milieu universitaire lui-même et en particulier aux formes de son insertion internationale. En ce sens, la montée des études urbaines au Liban est intéressante à étudier dans une perspective comparée, prenant en compte les spécificités des études urbaines, notamment la tension entre structuration académique et lien avec l'action publique, et les renouvellements à l'échelle globale, liés à la montée des problématiques des villes du Sud. Ce texte pose d'abord un cadre d'analyse des études urbaines pour un pays du Sud, avant de développer trois grands résultats: l'histoire de l'émergence des études urbaines au Liban accompagne des mobilisations d'intellectuel.le.s et d'universitaires contre les politiques publiques de reconstruction et d'aménagement urbain. Les études urbaines se structurent dans un espace académique qui est celui de l'urbanisme, étroitement liée au Liban aux facultés d'architecture. Ces foyers des études urbaines sont inégalement dotés pour prendre place dans l'espace académique international. L'Université Américaine de Beyrouth se distingue sur ce plan. L'État et les acteurs publics locaux jouent un rôle mineur dans la structuration des études urbaines mais des formes de co-production de données et de savoirs pratiques associant universitaires, consultants et administrations sont néanmoins observables. Enfin, le développement des études urbaines est indissociable du militantisme urbain qui conduit à l'adoption de nouvelles pratiques de coproduction de savoirs avec les habitants et de nouvelles formes de diffusion, qu'il est loisible de comprendre comme des pratiques de traduction entre différents publics, comme l'ont proposé à propos de l'Afrique du Sud Susan Parnell et Edgar Pieterse.
International audience ; Vulnerability is a polysemic concept, fundamentally philosophical and political. This protean nature of the paradigm poses the problem of its operability for an efficient management of risks and crises in a global context of climatic and social uncertainties of urban territories. Indeed, crisis management comes up against the apprehension and the definition of vulnerability according to the temporal and spatial scale. This article aims to trace the chaotic route of this concept in order to propose a reframing at the scale of developing cities in which urbanization is rather poorly controlled. The approach is based on bibliographic research and the results of empirical studies carried out in the city of San Pedro in the south-west of Côte d'Ivoire. In analysis, the incursion of the concept of vulnerability in geography was made when the discipline of naturalistic science became social science under the impulse of American geographers. Vulnerability then becomes a holistic concept that brings together four factors: hazard, stake, perception and management. It is a social object to which, according to the results of our surveys, it is possible to add under the heading of southern cities factors such as uncontrolled urbanization, urban governance and poor development. ; La vulnérabilité est un concept polysémique, fondamentalement philosophique et politique. Ce caractère protéiforme du paradigme pose le problème de son opérationnalité pour une gestion efficiente des risques et des crises dans un contexte global d'incertitudes climatiques et sociales des territoires urbains. En effet, la gestion des crises se heurte à l'appréhension et à la définition que l'on se fait de la vulnérabilité selon l'échelletemporelle et spatiale. Cet article vise à retracer l'itinéraire chaotique de ce concept afin de proposer un recadrage à l'échelle des villes en développement dans lesquelles l'urbanisation est plutôt mal-maîtrisée. La démarche se base sur la recherche bibliographique et les résultats d'études ...
International audience Vulnerability is a polysemic concept, fundamentally philosophical and political. This protean nature of the paradigm poses the problem of its operability for an efficient management of risks and crises in a global context of climatic and social uncertainties of urban territories. Indeed, crisis management comes up against the apprehension and the definition of vulnerability according to the temporal and spatial scale. This article aims to trace the chaotic route of this concept in order to propose a reframing at the scale of developing cities in which urbanization is rather poorly controlled. The approach is based on bibliographic research and the results of empirical studies carried out in the city of San Pedro in the south-west of Côte d'Ivoire. In analysis, the incursion of the concept of vulnerability in geography was made when the discipline of naturalistic science became social science under the impulse of American geographers. Vulnerability then becomes a holistic concept that brings together four factors: hazard, stake, perception and management. It is a social object to which, according to the results of our surveys, it is possible to add under the heading of southern cities factors such as uncontrolled urbanization, urban governance and poor development. ; La vulnérabilité est un concept polysémique, fondamentalement philosophique et politique. Ce caractère protéiforme du paradigme pose le problème de son opérationnalité pour une gestion efficiente des risques et des crises dans un contexte global d'incertitudes climatiques et sociales des territoires urbains. En effet, la gestion des crises se heurte à l'appréhension et à la définition que l'on se fait de la vulnérabilité selon l'échelletemporelle et spatiale. Cet article vise à retracer l'itinéraire chaotique de ce concept afin de proposer un recadrage à l'échelle des villes en développement dans lesquelles l'urbanisation est plutôt mal-maîtrisée. La démarche se base sur la recherche bibliographique et les résultats d'études ...
Environmental uncertainties, democratic doubts as well as economic and social complexities would challenge the urban planning's mastery, planning and predictability ambitions. Practitioners would increasingly feel inadequacy of urban planning's knowledge to take theses evolutions into account. They therefore start to renew their profession's knowledge by invoking other categories of expertise (disciplinary, relational, cooperative, experiential, etc.) based on subjective relevance criteria. This diversifying, even merging, profession's knowledge capability is called professionality.Nevertheless, theses professionalities are slowed down in achieving their tasks due to urban planning compliance to the Modernity politic plan. Thus, using the knowledge improvement as a collective emancipation, the Modernity only admits logico-formal rationality as a democratic selection criterion. It rejects any political arbitration based on affection, sensitivity, believes, axiology, etc. When Modernity is faced with theses arbitrations, it makes use of mythological patterns of thinking because the timeless, universal, structuring, and familiar impact of the myth allows to easily get a commitment. Environmental crisis revive uncertainties and rejected topics, thus unveiling a urban planning's mythological constellation through Prometheus, Babel and Orpheus myths. The knowledge of urban planning's myths is absolutely necessary for professionalities as they define fora for expression avoiding the Modernity reproductive power. ; Les incertitudes écologiques, les doutes démocratiques et les complexités économiques et sociales, interpelleraient les ambitions de maîtrise, de planification et de prévisibilité de l'urbanisme. Les praticiens éprouveraient de plus en plus un sentiment d'inadaptation des savoirs embarqués par l'urbanisme pour saisir ces évolutions. Dès lors, ils s'engagent dans un renouvellement des savoirs dans leurs métiers, en convoquant d'autres registres de connaissances (disciplinaire, relationnel, coopératif, ...
Environmental uncertainties, democratic doubts as well as economic and social complexities would challenge the urban planning's mastery, planning and predictability ambitions. Practitioners would increasingly feel inadequacy of urban planning's knowledge to take theses evolutions into account. They therefore start to renew their profession's knowledge by invoking other categories of expertise (disciplinary, relational, cooperative, experiential, etc.) based on subjective relevance criteria. This diversifying, even merging, profession's knowledge capability is called professionality.Nevertheless, theses professionalities are slowed down in achieving their tasks due to urban planning compliance to the Modernity politic plan. Thus, using the knowledge improvement as a collective emancipation, the Modernity only admits logico-formal rationality as a democratic selection criterion. It rejects any political arbitration based on affection, sensitivity, believes, axiology, etc. When Modernity is faced with theses arbitrations, it makes use of mythological patterns of thinking because the timeless, universal, structuring, and familiar impact of the myth allows to easily get a commitment. Environmental crisis revive uncertainties and rejected topics, thus unveiling a urban planning's mythological constellation through Prometheus, Babel and Orpheus myths. The knowledge of urban planning's myths is absolutely necessary for professionalities as they define fora for expression avoiding the Modernity reproductive power. ; Les incertitudes écologiques, les doutes démocratiques et les complexités économiques et sociales, interpelleraient les ambitions de maîtrise, de planification et de prévisibilité de l'urbanisme. Les praticiens éprouveraient de plus en plus un sentiment d'inadaptation des savoirs embarqués par l'urbanisme pour saisir ces évolutions. Dès lors, ils s'engagent dans un renouvellement des savoirs dans leurs métiers, en convoquant d'autres registres de connaissances (disciplinaire, relationnel, coopératif, expérientiel.) selon des critères de pertinence subjectifs. Cette capacité à diversifier voire hybrider les savoirs dans les métiers est nommée professionnalité. Mais ces professionnalités sont freinées dans leurs réalisations par l'adhésion de l'urbanisme au projet politique de Modernité. En effet, en visant une émancipation collective par l'amélioration des connaissances, la Modernité ne reconnaît que la rationalité logico-formelle comme régime de délibération démocratique. Elle refoule tout arbitrage politique relevant d'un régime affectif, sensible, convictionnel, axiologique. Lorsqu'elle y est confrontée, la Modernité convoque des schèmes de penser mythologiques, car la portée atemporelle, universelle, structurante et familière du mythe lui permet de susciter facilement l'adhésion. Or, les crises écologiques font ressurgir les incertitudes et les refoulés, révélant ainsi une constellation mythologique de l'urbanisme avec le mythe de Prométhée, de Babel et d'Orphée. La connaissance des mythes de l'urbanisme est essentielle pour les professionnalités car ils délimitent des espaces d'expression échappant à la puissance reproductive de la Modernité.