Urban Agriculture
March 18, 2015 4:45 pm Comments Off on Urban AgricultureUrban or peri-urban agriculture encompasses a variety of activities, ranging from livestock farming and horticulture to agro-forestry. Some of these... View Article
Author Archives for Pascale Thys
Tax Property
March 18, 2015 4:44 pm Comments Off on Tax Property“The tax levy is compulsory and non-exchange conducted by the State or local governments, and designed to meet their public... View Article
Sustainable city
March 18, 2015 4:43 pm Comments Off on Sustainable city“Sustainable city” is a term used to refer to a city or urban entity that respects the principles of sustainable... View Article
Suburb
March 18, 2015 4:40 pm Comments Off on SuburbDefinition The CITEGO Website provides a better understanding of the notion of territorial governance. It contains definitions of this concept... View Article
Squat
March 18, 2015 4:39 pm Comments Off on SquatA squat is a space, such as a building, that a group of individuals occupy illegally. This occupation occurs for... View Article
Spatial Mismatch
March 18, 2015 4:35 pm Comments Off on Spatial MismatchSource (en) : The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch
Social Production of Habitat
March 18, 2015 4:34 pm Comments Off on Social Production of HabitatDEFINITION “The social production of habitat (concept developed in Latin America) encompasses the process and the product resulting from the... View Article
Social Function (of land – of property)
March 18, 2015 4:30 pm Comments Off on Social Function (of land – of property)For Aristotle (-384 to -322), the concept of social ownership means that the individual property is facing a common use.... View Article
Social diversity
March 18, 2015 4:15 pm Comments Off on Social diversity“Social diversity is both a condition—the fact that social groups with different characteristics share the same territory—and a process—the act... View Article
Slum
March 18, 2015 4:14 pm Comments Off on Slum1845, from back slum “dirty back alley of a city, street of poor or low people” (1825), originally a slang... View Article
Shrinking Cities
March 18, 2015 4:12 pm Comments Off on Shrinking CitiesOver the last fifty years, some 370 cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants have registered population losses as great as... View Article
Shantytown (or slum)
March 18, 2015 4:08 pm Comments Off on Shantytown (or slum)The term “shantytown,” which has many local variations, refers to several types of housing and settlement. The French term “bidonville”... View Article
Sanitation
March 18, 2015 4:05 pm Comments Off on SanitationUrban solid waste is a source of many inconveniences in our cities. The phenomenon is all the more complex as... View Article
Right to the City
March 18, 2015 4:04 pm Comments Off on Right to the CityDEFINITION The goal of this right is to ensure the efficacy of collective and individual rights to the city, an... View Article
Requisition
March 18, 2015 4:00 pm Comments Off on RequisitionWhat is requisition law? It is a procedure by which an authority (civil or military) demands the handover of movable... View Article