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• 01 mar 2014

  Istanbul

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  CODATU XVI

  Climatic change, air quality and energy challenges: the role policy in urban transport and preventative measures in developing countries and emerging economies

  Transport is an integral component of sustaining livelihoods: without efficient urban transport mankind would not survive and develop and nor would economies. Yet, despite the immense benefits that transport enables, such as access to jobs, markets, education, and consumer goods and services via global supply chains, the transport sector generates substantial disbenefits. These include dependence on non-renewable energy, greenhouse gas emissions, local pollutions, road accidents and inequalities of access. Such disbenefits clearly demonstrate that the transport sector is currently unsustainable economically, environmentally and socially.

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• 25 nov 2013

  Tunis

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Ambiance as a key issue in the contemporary Mediterranean public space

  International Conference, International Ambiances Network

  Taking Tunisia — a tiny yet dense country — as a case study, this international conference addresses the possibility of sharing contemporary public spaces in the Mediterranean. It addresses the role played by architecture and urban forms in the sharing process itself and also invites to think of future forms and ambiences in a context of hyper-plurality in which the notion of neighborhood is put into question and the notion of space marking is more than ever re-explored.

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• 15 jui 2012

  Marseille

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Mediterranean cities and exile at the turn of the 21st century

  Le colloque international « Villes méditerranéennes et exil au tournant du XXIe siècle », aura lieu à l’auditorium de la Maison de la Région au 61, La Canebière à Marseille, les 19 et 20 octobre 2012.

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