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# Les mots-clés

Squat  A squat is a space, such as a building, that a group of individuals occupy illegally. This occupation occurs for economic reasons and, occasionally, for socio-political reasons (to defend a cause, fo...
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Suburb Definition The CITEGO Website provides a better understanding of the notion of territorial governance. It contains definitions of this concept from various parts of the world: In France, a suburb...
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Sustainable city “Sustainable city” is a term used to refer to a city or urban entity that respects the principles of sustainable development and urban ecology and which seeks to consider simultaneously urban policy’s...
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Tax Property "The tax levy is compulsory and non-exchange conducted by the State or local governments, and designed to meet their public expenditure (BERNARD, 1975) and those of some other public purpose or public...
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Touristification The spread of tourism throughout the world is leading to a transformation of tourist destinations for all countries, regions and cities wishing to receive part of the manna provided by world tourism....
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Urban Agriculture Urban or peri-urban agriculture encompasses a variety of activities, ranging from livestock farming and horticulture to agro-forestry. Some of these activities are concentrated in peri-urban areas (su...
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Urban apartheid Definition from South Africa Typically a component of social apartheid, urban apartheid refers to the spatial segregation of minorities in remote areas. In the context of South African apartheid, thi...
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Urban density Our intention is not to examine the broader notion of population density, but rather to focus on that of urban density, which raises a number of economic, ecological, and urban planning considerations...
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Urban Ecology Urban ecology is the study of the city and its consumption habits for the purpose of protecting its environment and reducing its ecological footprint. It studies several facets: transportation, habita...
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Urban Function Urban functions consist of the entirety of administrative, industrial, and commercial activities exercised by a city within an urban area and across the space over which it extends. The study of urba...
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Urban Growth In 2008, a new global milestone was reached: the world’s urban population exceeded that of rural areas. In other words, since 2008, one human being out of two lives in a city. At the global level,...
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Urban Habitat in Global Cities A New Habitat Model in a Globalized Society. In his work “La condition urbaine, la ville à l’heure de la mondialisation” (The Urban Condition: The City in the Age of Globalization), Olivier Mongin de...
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Urban Insecurity CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: THE CHICAGO SCHOOL In the 1920s, the Chicago School, consisting of scholars who used the city of Chicago as a social laboratory, developed some of the first insights into urban c...
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Urban Planning Urban planning requires a comprehensive vision for a particular territory, as well as of the prescriptive tools needed to develop it. It strives to make political decision-making more coherent. Urban...
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Urban Renewal A FRANCO-AMERICAN DEFINITION In France, the concept of urban renewal dates legally from the late fifties. At the time, fighting insalubrious urban housing was the priority. Urban renewal referred to t...
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Urban Sprawl Urban sprawl is a phenomenon whereby a city spreads beyond its initial territory. It is occurring in major cities throughout the world. Typical habitats found in large peripheries are either residenti...
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Urban transition The demographic transition is called "urban transition". This is defined as the period during which a country moves from a low level of urbanization in a majority rate of urbanization. The urban trans...
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Urban Waste Management Defining Urban Waste Urban waste refers to household waste (garbage, glass, wrappings, plastic, cardboard, paper, woods, kitchen waste, etc.) and comparable forms of waste (such as those produced by i...
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Urbanization rate This is the percentage of total population of a country or area living in places defined as urban (according to the national criteria applied in the last population census). This indicator shows the...
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Working-Class Housing “Housing considered as a right to housing requires must be considered comprehensively, including job creation, social integration and cohesion, identity building, health, education, housing, work, lan...
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