Understanding changes in ways of inhabiting the territory

These texts explore changes in individual and collective practices, and reflect on how the inhabitants and users of cities adapt to various constraints (economic, social, and environmental) and new issues. These changes involve various fields of urban action, (such as housing, mobility and the design of public spaces) and they highlight the importance of taking into account the interaction between fields. They also include issues related to territorial appropriation processes and analysis of the uses of space.

• How have the daily practices and expectations of users and inhabitants changed? What factors influenced these changes?

• How do inhabitants and users react to new systems set up by urban actors (new transportation services, changes in the design of housing, recommendations on everyday modes of consumption, etc.)? How do they appropriate the new arrangements or adapt them to their needs?

• How do citizens and companies take individual or collectiveinitiatives to change territorial metabolism and participate in the transition to sustainable territories and societies?

15 dossiers

• Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme de la Région Ile-de-France : Mettre en commun des études et des travaux nécessaires à la prise de décision
• Informal spaces
  • Informal urbanities
  • Partout, des espaces informels
• Understand the housing crisis
• Defining and struggling for housing rights
• Social production of habitat
• Social geography of peri-urban areas
  • Social sciences’ definition of peri-urban and identification of its principal characteristics
  • INSEE’s definition of peri-urbain
  • Peri-urbanisation is not urban sprawl
  • Sociology of peri-urban areas
  • Relationship to the territory: between residential club and metropolis
  • Peri-urban practices
• Smart cities
• Developing a sustainable territorial economy with Territorial hubs for economic cooperation (PTCE)
• Popular, precarious? - Overlapping perspectives on a predominant housing solution
• Vulnerability and coexistence of modes of transportation
  • Civilising mobility: an important issue for sustainable cities
• Aperçus métropolitains
• Defining social sustainable development
• Land and property legislations - The plurality of private property rights and their interferences
• Exerting one’s citizenship in cities: neighbourhood and urbanity
• Fighting social exclusion through social innovation on housing and social and professional integration

A notion

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