La discrimination à l'embauche à l'encontre des jeunes en Île-de-France est étudiée à travers trois effets : réputation du lieu de résidence, sexe et origine (française ou maghrébine). Les données résultent d'un protocole de testing : entre mi…
Partant d'une analyse monographique des secteurs d'activités franciliens ayant des effets favorables sur la biodiversité, nous sommes en mesure de recenser les bio-emplois en Ile-de-France et les emplois induits à l'échelle nationale. Les "…
Many occidental megalopolises have experienced a dramatic polarization between a vibrant and intense town center and a suburban sprawl eventually magnified and encouraged by large retail centers linked to highway hubs. On the opposite, Tokyo's…
This paper presents the experience and some results in the incorporation of the concept of ambience in the studies and intervention projects aimed at environmental policies within CETESB, Environmental Company of São Paulo State. The environmental…
The results obtained during my research of master revealed that the poor quality of outdoor space group is the main cause of discomfort experienced by the users (Lamraoui, 2001). To do so, in this study, drawn from my PhD research in progress, we…
Often, when we choose buildings to be categorized as heritage, it is the building as a whole that calls for protection and not only some specific detail that is worth preserving. In this case, the values of the building not only relate to the…
Stations, airports, subways, ports, as forcedly loaded with people and therefore with potential clients, are attracting more and more commercial activities, overturning the relationships where the commercial dimension almost justifies the…
Place of memory but also of history, the Algerian old towns are characterised by a traditional urban structure, a powerful commercial device of old vocation, the lot associated to a big sense of community. Today, while construction develops along…
In recent years, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has set to question at the assumptions on which architects operate. We have embarked on the study and revision of an undeclared territory of false assumptions, preconceptions, and attitudes…
The social demand of city dwellers concerns safer and sustainable urban spaces. This expectation directly challenges all the actors involved in city-making, urban planners and architects. However, safety is currently not considered as an essential…
This paper examines the hybrid condition of Taipei's built environment within its socio-cultural context and daily activity of the city. It also points out certain forward-looking policies adopted by the City Government that over the last decades…
Two years ago I lived for 11 months in the 17th floor of a high-rise building in Shanghai. My bedroom had a small bow window, a privileged observatory; wherefrom everyday I looked at the city. From there, there wasn't architecture anymore, there…
In these large urban development strategies, Morocco has often accompanied the promotion of these new urban projects images of medinas moods. This approach is taken to extremes, when blazing new medinas are projected in the new towns (Tamesna (2005)…
The history of window display in France during the fifties and sixties tells us about the creation of strong relationships between this decorative art and theatre. Although decorations and classical principles of composition inherited from the old…
According to what the American artist Robert Smithson means by his use of the concept of entropy in the case of his analysis of the phenomenon of modern suburbs, the present discussion will explore his critique of the suburban landscape and the…
The international community takes up arms more and more frequently against loss or failure of a district or a building where the atmosphere is typical of a historical identity. As a memorial relic, the atmosphere and its urban or architectural…
This paper examines the role of expectation of two different aspects of urban ambiance (smell and sound), on people's experiences and perceptions of urban environments. It draws from two separate sensewalking studies of English cities. The first,…
This article aims at discussing the role of atmospheres in recent French urban renewal operations, mostly focused on the demolition of the "grands ensembles", large housing units built from the 50's until the end of the 60's. Along with the economic…
Contemporary Western architecture occasionally seeks help from the visual arts. This relationship, which at times can be very intense, allows for hybrids that transform our perception of architecture. The encounter between the academic disciplines in…
As an architect and urban planner, the fact of considering each major city as a potential metropolis raises several questions: some cities have a marketing and political issue; the rest require a spatial planning strategy... From which basis should…
