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In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious worker ...

Numerous researches, and more particularly in the field of migration and transnational mobility. However, studies of the impact of migrants on cities themselves remain insufficient. Based on ethnographic work within the United Nations office in Geneva, thi ...

This paper describes the Data Domotopia a 2300 + respondent self-administered webbased survey. It includes 100 + multi-purpose items about home-making and stillness in a moving world. We suppose that home-making can reveal coping strategies and resilience ...

This article proposes an original approach to urban events mapping. At the theoretical level, the article is based on rhythmanalysis and recent research on urban rhythms. It contrasts with previous research by departing from everyday rhythms to tackle the ...

This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider ...

Urban proximity planning is foreseen as a solution to foster a “sustainable” city, including economic viability, environmental soundness and social inclusivity. This paper focuses on the inclusivity aspects by questioning the adoption of urban proximities: ...

In this article, we propose to examine the diversity of gentrification trajectories taken by six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France Region. To apprehend the dynamics of the different gentrification processes, we investigate the manner in which changes in ...

The commodification of "alternative" cultural spaces is a process that started to take place in several European cities, like Lisbon, for instance. This has happened due to the pressure of the real estate market, tourism trends or the austerity measures im ...

This chapter explores touristic infrastructures as politics of ambiance, paying attention to the way they enable urban environment and engage pedestrians to experience cities critically. This issue will be documented through an ethnographic study of two to ...

The proposed article suggests that urban studies are in need of new tools to describe and analyze the different “regimes of urbanization” in an increasingly heterogeneous urban world. In order to create dynamic and relational descriptions of contemporary c ...

In recent decades, European cultural policies have become inseparable from urban policies, with culture becoming both the new promotional tool for cities aiming to be ‘creative’ (Vanolo, 2008; Vivant, 2009) and the source of unprecedented real estate profi ...

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 ...

Responsibility—as an analytic or topic of political debate—is out of vogue in critical housing studies. Rather than offering progressive potential, the call for responsibility has been seen to foster neoliberal governance, racial structural violence, and f ...

Although ‘arrival infrastructure’ is central to the experience of migrants arriving in a new city, is it sufficient to form a ‘hospitable milieu’? Our article compares newcomers’ experiences with ‘arrival infrastructure’ in two European cities: Brussels an ...

Is it possible to discern correlations between past and present urban policies? Do path dependencies exist at the urban level? If so, how do they differ from other links between the past and present? A preview of the literature dealing with dependencies an ...

Et si le monde urbain était un monde sans voiture? Post-Car World tente de répondre à cette interrogation dans le contexte de la transition énergétique, à l’heure où la mobilité des biens, des personnes et du vivant constitue l’enjeu autour duquel reconfig ...

This questionnaire Data Domotopia is a 100+ multi-purpose items about home-making and stillness in a moving world. The survey covers most of the contemporary issues related to home-making. This includes the domestic space and gender issues; the socio-spati ...

In this article, we address the persistence of urban critiques operated from the margins, that is, from what differs and struggles to find its place in the urban order. Those critiques, which historically emerged with urban struggles and artistic avant-gar ...

Based on a field survey on the conflicts regarding the extension of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, this text discusses the production of public space. These controversies make possible an understanding of the production process of peri-urban space in ter ...

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Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva

Boundaries and urban worlds: the contested ethnoscape of expatriates in Geneva

Data Domotopia: introduction to the quantitative survey

Rhythmanalysis of Urban Events: Empirical Elements from the Montreux Jazz Festival

Politics of Urban Planning : The Making and Unmaking of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

Planning urban proximities: An empirical analysis of how residential preferences conflict with the urban morphologies and residential practices

The dynamics of multifaceted gentrification. A comparative analysis of the trajectories of six neighbourhoods in the Ile-de-France region

The commodification of alternative cultural spaces

Commoning the touristic city. Urban pedestrian routes and the ambiguous politics of exploration

Advancing Analytical Tools to Understand Urban Planning: Mapping Controversies around the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034

Counterculture as a Financial Asset: The Commodification of LX Factory in Lisbon

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

Towards a Radical Housing Responsibility

Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Janus-Faced 'Arrival Infrastructure'

How Does Urban Public Transport Change Cities? Correlations between Past and Present Transport and Urban Planning Policies

Post-Car World. Futurs de la ville-territoire

Preliminary metadata paper. Data Domotopia: a web-based survey about home-making in a moving world

Les enjeux d’une sociologie de l’individualisme, ou comment mener l’enquête sur l’institution de l’individu (Grands résumés Du Bien-être au marché du malaise. La société du développement personnel)

Genèse et actualité d’une critique de la ville par les marges: Enquêtes en terrains bruxellois sur les possibilités de différer dans la ville contemporaine

L'aménagement du territoire comme espace public : quelques questions de démocratie locale posées par l’extension de l’École hôtelière dans le périurbain lausannois