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Créteil

The return of the Rust Belt in the age of populisms: places, issues and strategies

Ce projet de colloque, organisé à l'université de Paris-Est Créteil les 20-21 juin 2019, prévoit d'interroger l'objet géographique « Rust Belt » (ceinture de la rouille) sous différents éclairages thématiques, méthodologiques et disciplinaires. Il a pour ambition d’entreprendre un état des lieux de la Rust Belt, dans un contexte fortement marqué par les échéances électorales, entre les élections de mi-mandat de novembre 2018 et les différentes élections, notamment présidentielle, de 2020.

Champs-sur-Marne

Study days - Urban studies

Hybrid sources of electricity and urban development

L’accès à une énergie électrique abordable à coût environnemental maîtrisé et la fiabilité des réseaux - ce sont des enjeux fondamentaux pour le développement contemporain des territoires dans les Nords et les Suds. Une diversité de sources d’énergie et différentes solutions de fourniture sont appelées à coexister durablement pour y répondre. Quels sont les défis techniques, politiques, règlementaires et sociaux des processus d’hybridation qui pourront en résulter ?

Maputo

Call for papers - Urban studies

Municipalisation and urban management in Mozambique

Le Mozambique est encore très largement géré par l'administration de l'État central: il n'y a que 58 municipalités, toutes urbaines. La questionne est donc très politique, puisque toute avancée de la municipalisation permet à l'opposition d'acquérir plus de poids, même si le parti au pouvoir garde le contrôle sur la majorité d'entre elles. Ce colloque international aura lieu une dizaine de jours après la tenue des élections municipales d'octobre 2018, qui seront un test grandeur nature pour les élections présidentielles et législatives de l'année suivante...

Strasbourg

Conference, symposium - Urban studies

Innovative mobility and urban design. Mirroring contemporary metropolises

The symposium is an invitation addressed to both new and established researchers, as well as experts from both the private or public spheres, who seek to rethink - or even revolutionize - mobility as a societal problem and/or practice, as well as its relation to metropolitan territories and places, through fields of knowledge and action as varied as architecture, engineering, geography, new technologies, and others. The underlying premise of this event is that a new inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural and inter-stakeholder dialogue is necessary in order to respond effectively to the urban mobility issues put forward by the three pillars (social, political and cultural) of sustainable development. How to combine the growing necessity and desire for speed in travel, with the imperative of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gases? At the same time, how to achieve better quality public space dedicated to or crossed by mobility? How to ensure that the mobility of people, whether undergone or chosen, is part of a municipal and societal project that is acceptable and sustainable?

Darnétal

Call for papers - Modern

Conjugating modernity

The architects Marcel Lods, Michel Roux-Spitz, and Jean Walter

La modernité comme avènement de la raison instrumentale en architecture pose la question du rapport aux sciences, techniques et humanités tel qu’il a été historiquement construit ou activement recouvré, et tel qu’il acquiert une valeur au travers des discours, conceptions et réalisations des architectes à l’époque contemporaine. Appréhendé le plus souvent à l’ère industrielle comme un enjeu en soi ou comme catalyseur d’inventions (nouveaux objets, procédés/systèmes d’exploitation ou d’organisation) ce rapport interroge dans sa propension à se mouvoir en facteur principal d’innovation et à se constituer progressivement en valeur « expérimentale » ou patrimoniale intrinsèque à un grand nombre de réalisations. Un tel déplacement sémantique renvoie à des mutations réelles, architecturales et urbanistiques, aussi bien sur le plan théorique ou critique qu’en termes de mises en pratiques. Pour l’aborder, le colloque propose d’explorer différentes visions et écritures de la modernité architecturale et urbaine autour des productions de trois architectes – Marcel Lods (1891-1978), Michel Roux-Spitz (1888-1957), Jean Walter (1883-1957).

Champs-sur-Marne

Study days - Urban studies

Comparing property markets on an international scale

While many scholars compare property markets from the same urban area or compare the way these markets distinguish urban areas within a given country, very few propose an international comparison. And yet, this is a main scientific issue. Such comparisons would provide a new angle for studying metropolitan development as well as its internal trends relating to inequality and gentrification.

Madrid

Call for papers - Urban studies

Inequality and uncertainty: current challenges for cities

III Mid-Term Conference Of The Urban Sociology Research Network 37 Of European Sociological Association In Madrid (Spain), Uned

It is not possible to ignore the fact that cities are not only moving, vibrant and flourishing spaces, promising hope for better quality of life, but also accumulate and reflect significant problems. We need to recognise the complexity of economic, political, social, cultural and environmental mechanisms, which strengthen existing inequalities and add a great deal of uncertainty to life in cities and urban spaces of the globalised world. We want to gain a better understanding of the impact and consequences of inequality and uncertainty on the urban arena as much as the responses to current challenges in terms of both informal and institutional practices.

Call for papers - Urban studies

Economic Transition and New Ruralities

ERPS/ARENA collection, 8th volume

Nowadays, new debates on post-growth economy are at stake, notably in reaction to the financial crises; in France, new forms of social and solidary economy (SSE) are emerging, challenging the neoliberal economic model. Meanwhile in the UK, the “transition movement” initiated by Rob Hopkins has increased in power through engaged citizen initiatives. These pave the way for a collective reflexion on post-growth We intend to contribute with this work to the exploration of links between civic initiatives and the new development modes they give shape to. This call for papers intends to contribute to the debate, while proposing a specific field of investigation: rural territories.

Berlin

Call for papers - Urban studies

Geomedia and the City

Geomedia is an emerging concept that has been deployed to capture a particular technological condition, associated with recent rapid developments in digital technology. As such, it signals to the dialectics of locative media and the mediations of localities. However, the concept of geomedia carries deeper/wider ontological and epistemological registers that transcend the simple twining of geography and media. In this wider sense, geomedia gestures to the expanding interdisciplinary terrain at the crossroads of media studies and geography, where various ontologies and epistemologies of space/time, flows/mobilities and mediation/ mediatization come together. The aim of this special issue is to explore the urban as a key terrain where these ontologies and epistemologies are articulated.

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