Integrated Urban Environment Management and Resilience

Luc Adolphe is a professor at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Architecture within the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Toulouse, France, as well as a DPLG-registered architect and a TPE engineer. His research focuses on the city studied from a systemic and interdisciplinary perspective.

• Introduction ixJean-Pierre MIGNOT and Marc MÉQUIGNONChapter 1 Morpho-Sociological Approach to the City 1Marc MÉQUIGNON and Patrizia LAUDATI1.1 Introduction: socio-morphological analysis as a tool for understanding the city 11.2 The city’s modes of production 31.2.1 Combining different modes 71.2.2 Urban sprawl and morphological changes 81.3 Difficulties of apprehension 111.4 The city: object or subject? 121.5 The shapes and form of the city 131.6 Representations of the city: “drawings and designs” 141.6.1 Drawings 141.6.2 Designs 171.7 The constituent elements of the city 181.7.1 Limits 181.7.2 Structure 191.7.3 Layout 221.7.4 Plot division and private property 261.7.5 The city block 281.7.6 The street 341.7.7 The square 391.7.8 Unique elements 411.8 Conclusion 441.9 References 45Chapter 2 Space, Production and Urban Forms 49Jean-Pierre MIGNOT2.1 General introduction 492.2 The city between space and time 512.2.1 Back to the concept of space 522.2.2 Produced urban space and social production 632.2.3 Mode of production, production relationships and urban composition: the weight of history 672.3 Forms of accumulation and urban forms 712.3.1 Capitalism, regulation and the regime of accumulation 712.3.2 Fordist accumulation and urban growth 762.3.3 Digitization and service accumulation 832.4 Urban space, environment and resilience 912.4.1 Demography and urbanization: a major challenge for the environment 942.4.2 From the Fordist city to the sustainable city: a gamble? 1022.4.3 Cities and resilience 1072.5 The city under the regime of service accumulation 1112.5.1 From the center to the periphery or the peripheral expansion of commerce 1122.5.2 Smart city and sustainable city 1152.6 A provisional conclusion 1232.7 References 124Chapter 3 A Territorial Approach to Urban Spaces between Sustainability and Liveability 129Fabrice ESCAFFRE, Mélanie GAMBINO and Sinda HAOUÈS-JOUVE3.1 Urban diversification and transformation 1313.1.1 The criteria for necessary urban differentiation 1323.1.2 Urbanization as a global phenomenon 1343.2 The urban issue through the prism of housing 1373.2.1 Urban housing in transformation 1373.2.2 Housing policies in question 1393.3 Urban spaces and mobilities 1443.3.1 Residential mobility 1443.3.2 Daily and leisure urban mobility 1463.4 An urban agriculture… 1503.4.1 Multifunctional urban agriculture 1523.4.2 … But a diversified agriculture 1543.4.3 Six types of urban agriculture activities 1553.4.4 The establishment of food governance 1583.4.5 The sustainability challenges for urban agriculture 1593.5 The interface between urban spaces and climate 1603.5.1 The city and climate change 1613.5.2 Mobility and buildings: prime urban targets for mitigation 1643.5.3 The urban microclimate: a new challenge for urban livability 1653.5.4 Putting the climate issue on the urban policy agenda 1683.5.5 How does this translate into urban planning practices? 1713.6 Conclusion 1753.7 References 176Chapter 4 The City: A Space for Tensions in Modernity 183Yann FERGUSON4.1 Living together in urban societies 1854.1.1 City dwellers: liberated, but with a weakened collective conscience 1864.1.2 The diversity of the urban population: a threat to the social connection? 1924.1.3 Producing urban solidarity 1964.2 The socio-spatial dynamics of the urban population 2024.2.1 The fragmentation of urban society from above 2024.2.2 The fragmentation of urban society from below 2094.2.3 The disunity of the city 2144.3 The city in search of sustainability 2224.3.1 City and nature: an unlikely union 2234.3.2 The sustainable urban project: the city as a solution 2314.4 References 241List of Authors 247Index 249