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• 08 déc 2012

  Paris

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Les villes morcelées : quelles approches alternatives pour la rénovation urbaine ?

  Tackling Urban Fragmentation. Alternative Approaches to Urban Regeneration

  This one day conference invites researchers working on initiatives aiming at introducing innovative urban regeneration projects in cities across Europe, particularly cities affected by radical re-modellings over the last twenty years. We are looking for instances of administrative traditions being challenged towards exploratory strategies by lobbying groups of architects/designers, or local communities, or even local governments. This conference wants to explore if and how the expertise of uses from inhabitants and field workers in urban regeneration processes may be integrated to learn about possible ways of challenging the emerging patterns of urban fragmentation.

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• 10 mai 2012

  11 mai 2012

  Paris

  Seminar - Urban studies

  Rails and urban development. A Comparative Approach between France and the United Kingdom

  In France as in the United Kingdom, the issue of sustainable development along with preoccupations about energy costs are leading developers and urban planners to put rail transport at the centre of their concerns. Despite this similar context and though development in both countries has in general been strongly linked to rail, the relationships between urban development and rail transport seem to be quite different. France has seen a strong development of its tram networks since the beginning of the 1980s, whereas in Britain the revival of light rail systems has been more modest. On the other hand, the emergence of urban ‘railway star’ networks to service the peripheries of large cities has been more pronounced in Britain. Yet the role of major transport projects is a crucial issue in both countries in the metropolitan strategies of large urban areas like London and Paris.To comparatively explore the issue of railway transport and urban development the universities of Paris 1 Sorbonne and Liverpool are organising two linked seminars. The first of these will take place in Paris in May 2012, and consider the (re)development of LRT and tramway systems. The second seminar will be held in Liverpool in Autumn 2012 and address the issue of links between territorial development and railways.

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• 05 mar 2012

  Paris

  Study days - History

  Application of Lidar surveys in archaeology – some examples from France and abroad

  The commission « Theory and method in Landscape archaeology – Archaeogeography / Théorie et méthodes en archéologie du paysage / Archéogéographie » de l’UISPP and the programme « Archéologie du bassin parisien » de l’UMR 7041 Arscan Nanterre invites you to an international Workshop : « l’utilisation du LIDAR en archéologie, exemples d’études en France et à l’étranger » / Application of Lidar surveys in archaeology – some examples from France and abroad. Monday March 5, 2012 at the « Institut d’art et d’archéologie »

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• 15 mar 2012

  Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Local governance in the United Kingdom and in Ireland

  So far, so near

  L'IPAG de Valenciennes, l'Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis et le réseau européen OLA (Observatory on Local Autonomy) organisent un colloque consacré à l'administration locale au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande. Il sera l'occasion d'examiner les systèmes administratifs locaux à travers le concept de « self government » des deux États, mais aussi de leurs entités, telles que les régions dévolues au Royaume-Uni, dans une perspective comparative.

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