Publications by Yves Pedrazzini

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A main challenge facing the city of the future is that of social cohesion between the poor and the rich, generations, genders and lifestyles. In addition to issues of professional opportunities and access to resources in general (housing, shops, services, nature), spatial cohesion is also a key factor that urban sociology can help remedy by proposing new policy, tools, and concepts. In this article, we approach these issues based on the concepts of differences and commons with regard to life rhythms. The s

The category of “creative city” is far from neutral. Indeed, it can be linked to very contrasted – and even opposed – practices and urban worlds. In order to grasp those differences, we need to take a closer look at what is entailed in the concepts of “creativity” and “art”, analysing in particular their political dimension. In this paper we defend the idea that it is the ambiguous polysemy of the notion of creativity – especially under the influence of the work of Florida (2002, 2012) – that is the cause o

Projet de mise en place d'un "Chantier d'Anthropologie urbaine" déposé après de la Mission du Patrimoine Ethnologique du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Perpignan, CRILAUP-Centre de recherches Ibériques et Latino-américaines et Institut d'Economie et de Sociologie du Roussillon, Université de Perpignan.

Report for the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Palestinian Territories, Funded by KfW, Frankfurt, Germany. The work was realized in Association with the Swiss NGO "Colloquia". ...

Idea shared between 1993 and 1996 between researchers from EPFL and other universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil and Venezuela, with the support of the Foundation Leopold Mayer for the Progress of Man, alternative ways of urban planning have been tested in several cities of these countries, involving representatives of different institutions and social groups in a participatory form. The book makes a synthesis of actions done in each countries and offers a globa thinking about what is the aim of plannin

The main objective of this project is to generate guidance for settlement planning on the optimisation of spatial designs in terms of: zoning, densification/decongestion, morphology of the built environment and strategic planning of public open space. Simi ...

Based on a research in Lisbon, Geneva and Ljubljana, this paper aim to analyse the uses of the term “alternative” (along its formal and aesthetic registers) in order to tackle the question of the aesthetization of creativity, away from its critical dimensi ...

In the North as in the South, we like the big cities, but we do not like violence. A fashionable exercice is to allocate reasons to the poorest inhabitants, then to adopt, to fight them, security strategies: our societies are quickly transformed into societies of fear. Urban planning, already, divides the space into fortresses and shanty towns. But we cannot continue thinking of urbanization since police stations:an alternative reading of the phenomena of urban violence and insecurity is necessary. It can o

Sur le plan du développement et de la coopération internationale et sous l’influence des grands bailleurs de fonds - Banque Mondiale en tête -, les années 1970-1980 auront été marquées par une attention particulière portées aux questions d’habitat. De gran ...

Study realized for the Office of Culture of the Canton of Geneva, in order to plan a new law on culture

En général, les pratiques sportives ne s’inscrivent pas dans un espace aux limites fixées par quelque fédération internationale, ni ne respectent des règles homologuées par celle-ci. Car « en général », c’est dans des métropoles dont la majorité des habita ...

Security discourses taking place in contemporary cities – in both developing and developed countries – feed defiance and legitimize an “urbanism of fear” based on controls that increase social and spatial segregation. Inversely, a sustainable city is an inclusive one capable of making a place for all kinds of people in a shared world. This is a plea for ambitious urban planning policies.

This innovative project addresses the issue of users’ participation towards urban development and policies. It is through a transdisciplinary action research that we plan to investigate this issue. Our intention is to develop a community-based methodology taking principles from community psychology and participatory urbanism. This collective research ambitions to be ground-based from the early beginning, identifying non-academic actors and making them co-researchers. Our goal is to generate spatial and soci

Principle 6 stresses that an appropriate proportion, number, organization and equitable distribution of Communal Open Spaces are essential for the sustainability of any settlement on the long-term, and should consider cultural, social and environmental asp ...

Marco General de la Linea de Actividades 3 “Violencia e inseguridad en el contexto de la globalización”

Cities are a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, ana- lyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urban researchers, architects, developers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists? What capacity do concepts and meth- ods have to travel from one context to another? How can they be transferred? Can they be translated? The strength of Transla

Prepared for the World Congress of the "Alliance pour un monde responsable, pluriel et solidaire", this report analyses the problem of urban violences in different regions of the world (Latin America, West Africa, Southern Europe...).

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Differences, commons and rhythms: Towards an urbanism of temporalities

Creativity without critique: An inquiry into the aesthetization of the alternative culture

La nouvelle culture urbaine des Gitans de Perpinyà, suivi ethnologique du groupe musical De Sant Jaume Son et d'une expérience-pilote d'auto-éducation alternative de la communauté gitane du quartier Saint-Jacques à Perpignan

The impact of Improved School Design on the Academic Achievement of Students in the Palestinian Territories : an Empirical Study

New oportunities: Participating and Planning

Spatial Layout Optimization. Guideline: Analysis

Creativity without critique: An inquiry into the aesthetization of alternative culture

La violence des villes

Produire la ville et un habitat durables socialement dans les pays du Sud

Les politiques culturelles d'une région urbaine: le Canton de Genève. Dossier pour un projet de loi.

Fonction sportive de la ruelle: une ethnologie du basket dans le monde des gangs et des barrios

Insecurity and Segregation: Rejecting an Urbanism of Fear

Grassroots Urbanism: Community involvement and Participation towards the Making of the City. Innovative research processes in India and Canada

Insécurité et ségrégation: refuser l’urbanisme de la peur

Appropriate Communal Open Spaces: Principle 6

El urbanismo del miedo, Violencia, in-seguridad y segregación social en América Central y el Caribe

Translating the City: Interdisciplinarity in urban studies

La métropolisation du Venezuela et les barrios de Caracas

Settlement Layout Optimization: Appropriate Communal Open Space

Violences urbaines. Cahier de propositions pour le 21ème siècle