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"La spécialisation fonctionnelle des territoires se développe dans un contexte de mobilité importante des populations : on naît ici, on fait ses études là, on fonde une famille, on travaille, on passe ses week-ends, ses vacances ou sa retraite ailleurs encore.

L'étude présentée dans cette publication analyse les flux et interactions, et donc les synergies, qui se créent entre les territoires à base économique productive d'un côté et résidentielle de l'autre. Les résultats de ce travail portant sur 131 « systèmes productivo-résidentiels » suggèrent que l'idée d'un développement métropolitain hors-sol, tout entier orienté vers la mondialisation et tournant le dos aux territoires périphériques, doit être remise en cause.

Les auteurs, Laurent Davezies, économiste, professeur au CNAM, titulaire de la chaire « Économie et développement des territoires » et Magali Talandier, urbaniste-économiste, maître de conférences à l'université Joseph-Fourier de Grenoble, UMR Pacte, tous deux membres de l'équipe de recherche de l'Observatoire de l'économie et des institutions locales , mobilisent une méthode originale qui donne à voir une nouvelle géographie des territoires français, de plus en plus interdépendants les uns des autres.

Avec Travaux, le CGET propose une collection d'ouvrages de référence conçus à partir du programme d'études qu'il lance chaque année. En publiant les contributions d universitaires, de consultants ou de groupes de prospective qu'elle sollicite, le CGET souhaite ainsi alimenter et éclairer les différents débats que suscitent les territoires et leur aménagement."

"Ce livre raconte Bruxelles et son eau. Il parle de cours d'eau disparus, de rivières voûtées, de luttes et de conquêtes sociales, d'égouts, d'inondations, de bière, du canal et de son port, des autorités publiques et de leurs actions, d'intercommunales, du “prix” de l'eau de robinet...

La deuxième partie est dédiée aux métiers, aux femmes et aux hommes qui, en surface ou en sous-sol, assurent toutes les fonctions nécessaires pour que l'eau de la ville soit le “miracle” quotidien qui nous permet d'avoir accès à l'eau à un coût public (comprenant eau potable et assainissement) d'1 euro les 500 litres ! C'est un reportage, présentant des biographies, des anecdotes, le travail au quotidien."

"Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces. As unions become more involved in the daily life of the city, they find themselves confronting the familiar dilemma of how to fold union priorities into broader campaigns that address nonunion workers and the lives of union members beyond the workplace. If we are right to believe that the future of the labor movement is an urban one, union activists and staffers, urban policymakers, elected officials, and members of the public alike will require a fuller understanding of what impels unions to become involved in urban policy issues, what dilemmas structure the choices unions make, and what impact unions have on the lives of urban residents, beyond their members.
Unions and the City serves as a road map toward both a stronger labor movement and a socially just urbanism. The book presents the findings of a collaborative project in which a team of labor researchers and labor geographers based in New York City and Toronto investigated how and why labor unions were becoming more involved in urban regulation and urban planning. The contributors assess the effectiveness of this involvement in terms of labor goals—such as protecting employment levels, retaining bargaining relationships with employers, and organizing new workforces—as well as broader social consequences of union strategies, such as expanding access to public services, improving employment equity, and making neighborhoods more affordable. Focusing on four key economic sectors (film, hospitality, green energy, and child care), this book reveals that unions can exert a surprising level of influence in various aspects of urban policymaking and that they can have a significant impact on how cities are changing and on the experiences of urban residents."

"This paper contributes to the literature on social sustainability in urban governance, with a focus on how this concept may be integrated into a Smart City strategy, so that excessive enthusiasm for smart technologies does not lead to neglect of the social implications of certain policies or programmes. By relying on a case study-based analysis, this work explores the path followed by the municipal government of Milan, and shows that integration of social sustainability into the Smart City strategy can be pursued by focusing both on the ‘content' and the ‘process' of strategy building. Rather than playing a strong leadership role, the planning department on the internal front and the entire municipality on the external front have chosen a role based on co-creation with citizens and other relevant stakeholders. The benefits of this approach may include the bottom-up character of several projects, better responsiveness and greater opportunities for different categories of actors; the drawbacks may include greater difficulty in ensuring that certain objective are reached (e.g. in terms of fairness and representativeness) and a higher risk of the dispersion of resources. This case also points to the difficulty of assessing the social sustainability of multiple rather than individual projects and programmes combined in a Smart City strategy: projects may reinforce each other in their social impact, or otherwise hinder possible benefits; also, a municipality may choose a combination of smart projects and programmes that attach different weights to economic, environmental and social sustainability objectives."

"It is now widely accepted that the future is urban. Over 55 percent of the world's population lived in urban areas in 2018; by 2050, this proportion will grow to two-thirds. The United Nations calls urbanization one of four “demographic mega-trends” (UNDESA 2019), along with population growth, aging, and international migration. Yet patterns of urbanization are highly heterogeneous, both within and across countries. Asia and Africa will see both the largest numbers of urban dwellers and the fastest growth in urbanization. In fact, seven of the ten countries with the fastest projected urbanization rates between 2018 and 2050 are located in Africa. Burundi is expected to urbanize fastest in the coming decades, followed by Nepal and Malawi. Although global urbanization will continue, its pace is expected to slow in the future, with both the absolute size of the urban population and the proportion of urban dwellers likely to grow less rapidly (UNDESA 2019). Already, we are beginning to see shrinking cities in some parts of Eastern Europe, where both total population and urban population are declining. Since urbanization and urban growth are so disparate across geographies, the implications of these trends are also very localized. As Part II of this chapter, we highlight some global demographic trends and their implications for urban areas, while Part III will highlight some regional trends."