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• 30 nov 2016

  Algiers

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Citizen and resident participation in social and urban development

  Good practices and political sloganeering - comparative approaches between the Algerian and international perspective

  Si la question de la participation citoyenne et habitante aux projets de développement social et urbain s’est creusée une place centrale dans les débats autour des voies et moyens permettant le développement durable, la décision urbanistique reste en Algérie marquée par l’absence de l’implication des usagers et citoyens comme acteurs de base de la fabrication de la ville.

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• 05 sep 2014

  Venice

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Experimental and alternative urbanism in the MENA region: building a critical and ‘political’ research on the ‘new’ modes of making the city

  Italian Association for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) Annual Conference - Panel 12

  This panel focuses on the renewed forms to build the city in the MENA region (‘environmental planning’, ‘resilient urbanism’, ‘responsive urbanism’, participatory and ‘collaborative’ initiatives, ‘sustainable’ urbanism…). The panel will tackle two types of spaces: informal settlements, where experimental forms and new methods are at work, and major eco-projects which have adopted in recent years ecological processes, along with global strategies. The major research hypothesis is that the MENA region shows at least since the 2000s new forms of urbanism that, to varying degrees, bring weak but maybe harbinger/forerunner signals of change and innovation, driven by the concepts of environment and sustainability. This is valid for both urban governance and the theoretical underpinnings of it, whereby professional training and the learning ways of doing, thinking and working on the city, shows some progressive changes. The panel will seek to understand why, however, the MENA seems to experience difficulties in ‘refreshing its software’ on regional, national and local theory and practice of urban planning. 

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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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• 30 mar 2011

  Tangier

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Tangier-Ports : Prospects of a changing territory

  La ville de Tanger, et à travers elle tout le pôle tangérois, ne cesse de connaitre de profondes métamorphoses sur tous les plans. Une décennie de transformations en profondeur appelle tous les intervenants, territoriaux et sectoriaux sur les échelles locale, régionale et nationale, à adopter une démarche prospective, intelligente, proactive, globale et durable pour espérer baliser et anticiper le « futur commun ».

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