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Résumé : La présente étude vise à contribuer à une meilleure connaissance des actions de développement réalisées à Daloa entre 1964, année de la mise en place de la délégation spéciale et 2010, en mettant en évidence les mécanismes et les caractères de ces actions. La méthode de travail privilégiée est basée sur la recherche documentaire, l’observation de terrain et les entretiens oraux. Le traitement de deux cartes et une photo nous a permis également d’apprécier le niveau de progression de la ville avec les problèmes d’urbanisme qui en découlent. Enfin, les données recueillies montrent que la ville de Daloa est restée presqu’autonome dans le financement de ses projets communaux, les subventions de l’État étant largement en dessous des besoins. Certes, l’État réalise de grandes infrastructures socio-économiques notamment à l’approche de la fête tournante de l’indépendance qu’abrite Daloa en 1967, mais la crise économique de 1980 occasionne son retrait et amène la municipalité à prendre ses responsabilités à travers la politique de décentralisation dénommée communalisation. Cependant, malgré la bonne stratégie de mobilisation de ressources et le niveau de développement auquel elle aurait pu prétendre, la ville de Daloa connait de nombreuses difficultés d’urbanisme qui bloquent son évolution planifiée.

La gestion urbaine est le reflet de politiques publiques multiples et du degré de la démocratie locale. L’analyse du système de gestion de la ville de Marrakech, à travers l’appréciation de la portée et des limites de l’action publique présumée régulatrice vis-à-vis des intérêts divers et divergents liés à la production du sol urbain,permet de remettre en cause les logiques de ce système qui s’apparente à un acte tributaire d’une volonté éphémère et non d’une politique exercée suivant un cadrage réglementaire et normatif pondéré. La gestion urbaine au niveau de la ville de Marrakech se fait en l’absence de documents d’urbanisme à même d’aider à l’organisation et au développement urbains. Le manque de jalonnement en la matière et le manque d’expertise se traduisent souvent par des tergiversations et tractations quant à l’instruction des dossiers d’autorisations. Les outils de la gestion urbaine se limitent aux lotissements, groupes d’habitations, constructions et morcellements. On manque de certains outils d’aménagement urbain comme les zones d’aménagement concerté et les projets opérationnels, comme on manque d’un cadrage normatif lucide, sachant qu’on s’adosse à des circulaires et grilles reflétant les principes du modèle fonctionnaliste et la primauté de l’habitat sur l’urbanisme.En outre, la pratique de la dérogation en urbanisme affecte négativement la production du sol urbain de Marrakech, comme elle risque de défigurer le paysage naturel et agricole de son périurbain. Ce faisant, la gestion urbaine se réduit aux tractations et compromis et demeure tributaire des situations locales et conjoncturelles, faisant courtiser les intérêts des pouvoirs les plus forts. Pourtant la rationalité de la prise de décision en matière de gestion urbaine doit être perçue dans une prospective territoriale, eu égard aux différentes échelles d’aménagement et d’urbanisme.Ainsi, ce travail met l’accent sur les interfaces entre la planification stratégique de la ville, les moyens juridico-institutionnels et techniques mobilisables et les outils de la gestion urbaine. Il en est ainsi question, pour faire autrement, de partager une stratégie d’acteurs, de réguler l’action collective sur la ville, de voir large et profond dans les normes et servitudes de gestion urbaine en s’appliquant à construire un système normatif à la fois souple, facilitateur et précis.

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This thesis contributes to the study of norms and public policy instruments which have shaped the last forty years of urban management in Morocco. By focusing on a paradigmatic case – the urban governance of Salé (also known as the twin city of Rabat) – we are contributing to a better understanding of major policy shifts that occurred, more broadly, in the kingdom. We are also investigating collaborations, territorial compromises and ordinary sociability which inform and mold local public policies.

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The specificities of the city of Touba, demographically, economically, and the religious ideological underpinnings of its governance, structure and orient the sociospatial dynamics, which remain insufficiently mastered. The objective of this article is to question the sustainability of the governance model of the city of Touba, characterized by the difficult reconciliation between strong demographic pressure, spatial sprawl, the informal economy and religious administration (unconventional) of the city. The methodological approach combines direct observation, the processing of quantitative and qualitative data obtained by household surveys, interview guides and mapping. The results and discussions show that informality is a resource and an opportunity for development in Touba. However, it ultimately constitutes a threat to the sustainability of the governance model of the religious city. The subsidiarity of the role of the State in decision-making is the source of the many shortcomings and gaps observed in spatial planning and territorial governance (deficiencies in the urban fabric, spatial spreading, land spoliation, insecurity, habitat spontaneous, sanitation, roads, etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’amplification démographique de la ville de Ziguinchor suscite l’extension spatiale qui s’accompagne de divers problèmes : dysfonctionnement dans l’aménagement urbain, développement de l'informalité économique et spatiale. Ces problèmes mettent en péril la viabilité économique en créant des déséquilibres entre les besoins croissants en services urbains de la population et les moyens faibles ou limités de la municipalité pour réaliser les investissements nécessaires. Cette situation rend plus alambiquée la gouvernance urbaine. Cet article, adopte un procédé de diagnostic du territoire urbain fondé sur l’analyse spatiale et celle de la territorialité des acteurs, extériorisé sous forme de prototypes spatiaux à travers les mécanismes de la géomatique. Les résultats ont permis d'abord, de faire le diagnostic territorial de la ville de Ziguinchor ; ensuite, d'exposer l'essor de l'emploi et l'importance de la géomatique dans la gestion urbaine et enfin, de faire des propositions innovantes permettant l’articulation des pratiques des différents acteurs pour une gouvernance urbaine efficiente.

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The demographic amplification of the city of Ziguinchor gives rise to spatial extension, which is accompanied by various problems: dysfunction in urban planning, development of economic and spatial informality. These problems jeopardize economic viability by creating imbalances between the growing need for urban services of the population and the weak or limited means of the municipality to make the necessary investments. This situation makes urban governance the most convoluted. This article adopts a method of urban territory diagnosis based on spatial analysis and that of the territoriality of the actors, expressed in the form of spatial prototypes through the mechanisms of geomatics. The results allowed, first, to make the territorial diagnosis of the city of Ziguinchor; then, to expose the growth of employment and the importance of geomatics in urban management and finally, to make innovative proposals allowing the articulation of practices of different actors for efficient urban governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within urban areas, a growing number of citizens independently set up initiatives to face climate change, such as greening, urban agriculture or alternative energy projects. This paper seeks to understand how local citizens'actors contribute to urban climate governance through small-scale social and environmental experiments. Based on a Montreal (Canada) neighbourhood Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie case study of eight initiatives, the research is based on a theoretical framework combining climate governance experiments and sociotechnical transition theory. The accumulation and influence of such initiatives can contribute to redefine urban issues and demonstrate the feasibility and acceptability of simple solutions in order to implement an urban transition in face of climate change. Using their social network but also their objectives and know-how, urban activists establish their legitimacy as stakeholders who can propose alternatives to the municipal government. Results of the study also show that such local experiments reflect the growing power of informal collective modes of action. Indeed, through local "green" actions, citizens produce impacts that are immediate, concrete, simple and "personal-benefit-oriented." By doing so, they build new ecosystems made of various partnerships. This offers an innovative alternative model in the face of the current ways of consuming resources and about how we socially deal with the climate crisis under a paradigm shaped by capitalism and neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cet article analyse les défis et déficits de planification et de gestion urbaine à Port-au-Prince au regard de quelques-unes des caractéristiques de son histoire, son cadre réglementaire, institutionnel, politique et social dont le point culminant est la catastrophe générée par le séisme de 2010. Il analyse également les stratégies de reconstruction développées par de multiples acteurs dans un contexte d'incertitude juridique, institutionnelle et économique. Notre hypothèse de départ est que la crise urbaine de l'agglomération de Port-au-Prince a des racines profondes qui datent du XIXème siècle et que l'action non coordonnée des organisations internationales et des ONG après le séisme, au lieu d'aider à la surmonter, a plutôt contribué à l'approfondir en reproduisant les déficits de gouvernance urbaine qui ont caractérisé cette agglomération, ainsi que les pratiques d'occupation territoriale désarticulées des processus de planification urbaine à long terme pour réduire les risques et la vulnérabilité au milieu urbain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Municipal governance in the Montreal metropolitan region has recently undergone several phases of transformation. The first, in 2001-2002, was characterized by amalgamation and the introduction of a metropolitan governance structure. This was followed, in 2006, by a round of de-amalgamation. Using annual municipal data on residential tax base and global tax rate covering the period from 1996 to 2011 for all municipalities of the metropolitan area, the impacts of these reforms on fairness are estimated. Our findings show that amalgamation raises equity among municipalities and that de-amalgamation partly reintroduced inequity in the metropolitan area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Toronto's pursuit of urban sport development over the past two decades signals the increasing embracement of a disconcerting form of entrepreneurial urbanism. Tracing the shift in governing models from Toronto's failed 1996 Olympic bid, through the 2008 Olympic bid, and finally to the recent hosting of the 2015 Pan American Games, I argue that there has been an alarming erosion of the role of the public in the mega event bidding process. The heated public debate and democratic demands that once defined Toronto's bid efforts have been steadily neutralized by new governing arrangements that continue to foreclose opportunities for political dissent. La planification des mégaévénements sportifs à Toronto : de la demande démocratique à une carence démocratique Les efforts consacrés par Toronto au développement d'activités sportives en milieu urbain au cours des deux dernières décennies révèlent une orientation de plus en plus marquée vers un mode troublant d'urbanisme entrepreneurial. Un portrait du changement dans les modèles de gouvernance est dressé à partir de la tentative ratée d'obtenir les Jeux olympiques de 1996 à Toronto, en passant par sa candidature olympique de 2008, jusqu'à la tenue récente des Jeux panaméricains de 2015. Il est inquiétant de constater à quel point les instances publiques se désintéressent du processus de dépôt de candidature à l'organisation d'un mégaévénement. Le débat public houleux et les revendications démocratiques qui accompagnaient les dépôts de candidature de Toronto dans le passé ont été graduellement neutralisés par de nouvelles mesures de gouvernance qui excluent l'expression de dissidence politique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents original research on relations between middle-class residents and informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. It shows how middle-class associations used their consumption preferences as well as relationships with local authorities to legitimize the work of street hawkers and waste workers. These findings suggest that the toleration of informality can be traced to governance regimes comprised of both state and non-state powerbrokers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose is to consider the different meanings of the expression "new city". The latter suggests, at least for the Algerian context, a double interpretation: the future city on the one hand, the city of the future on the other hand. Beyond these language subtleties, the problem deals, for the first interpretation, with the process of production of the city as well with its context (geographic, but also economic and political). This requires understanding both the power relationships that characterizes the production, and the "governance" processes. However, the second interpretation suggests a fantasized city, able by itself to make a leap into the future, considering that it is simultaneously subject to some marketing operations rooted in the present time. This paper wishes to distinguish the visions of researchers to those of project managers on new cities. It makes a distinction between visions that focus on the global context of integration of the new city, and those that lock the debate in the intra muros imposed limits. It distinguishes furthermore the visions that implement procedures related to the existing rules of the game, and those that seek to identify the stakes, mainly hidden, of the urban projects, which are often tucked into a range of trendy and catch-all vocabularies by their developers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than a decade after the launch of a "new towns Program" in Morocco by the Ministry of Housing and Town Planning (2004), the purpose of our article is to provide an overview of this policy. To do this, three inputs are borrowed. First, it is to check whether the terms of its genesis, the powers of its initiator and responsible for project management, ad hoc arrangements (legal and institutional) engaged have given these officials the ability to lead this program efficiently. Second, the ambitious objectives announced and carried by the official discourse, particularly with regard to demographics, urbans and environmentals aspects are related to their current realities. Finally, the conflicts that reveal when conducting projects in the program are analyzed as indicators of malfunctioning governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Since nineties Santiago de Chile exhibited an urban development predominantly led by private agents. Among the symbols of this phase are the satellite towns built by real estate holdings in the periurban commune of Lampa. These projects show a real estate agent who redefines their role from a builder of houses toward a more complex role of planner-administrator of settlements in periods of twenty years. Using the regime theory as analytic framework it is argued that satellite towns represents a phase of real estate development with profound transformations on the local policy. Specifically, satellite towns are administrated from assemblies of govern among the municipality and real estate holding, in spite of supported in normative vacuums and informal agreements, this coalitions persist due to the mutual economic benefit. The co-govern of satellite towns redefine the local govern shaping an dynamic and multi-agent scenario where local goverment lack of instruments able to promote public private partnerships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of the administration of spaces assigned by municipalities for the burial of the dead, this article provides a critical analysis of the techniques for the governance of political collectives of citizens implemented by public authorities. More broadly, this article shows how funerary practices (i.e. the social practices surrounding death—the rituals, the legislation, etc.) can be used to develop a critical reading of the social relations that structure the social production of space. To this end, the authors use the conceptual tools provided by critical legal geography to explore the controversy surrounding the development of a ‘carré confessionnel’ (denominational area) within the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here, a focus on the techniques that allow ‘nomosphere’ technicians to convene a subset of the citizens within the public space reveals the administration of cemeteries as a means of governance, a method for mobilising bodies and a paradoxical means of managing flux. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article combines political and economic geographies with social and cultural theory by reviewing structural and actor-centred approaches to urban governance alongside work on identity, community, masculinity and ‘rights to the city’. The article seeks to bring these literatures into dialogue via an analysis of mayoral politics, presenting empirical research from a UK city in order to highlight the influence of class, sexuality and racism on urban politics. It shows how theoretical and empirical engagement with unequal social relations and their discursive construction through cultural forms and practices offers fruitful avenues for geographical understanding of territorial and relational urban governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spadina Expressway controversy in Toronto, Ontario, was sparked by a proposal to run an expressway into the heart of the city. The dispute was part of a broader movement against high modernist planning that swept American and Canadian cities in the 1960s and 1970s. Frustrated by unresponsive politicians and civic officials, citizen activists challenged authorities with an alternate vision for cities that prioritized the safeguarding of the urban environment by preserving communities, preventing environmental degradation, and promoting public transit. By the latter half of the 1960s, citizen activists were no longer fighting alone, as some politicians and civil servants also turned against more traditional modes of city planning. This politicization of urban planning and transportation schemes culminated in the defeat of expressway networks in cities across Canada and the United States, including the Spadina Expressway in 1971. A landmark decision and important precursor to the municipal reform movement that would follow, the legacy of the Spadina episode was nevertheless mixed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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GIS technologies have developed rapidly in urban China, particularly within local governments, over the past decade. However, such GIS practices in non-Western contexts have not been investigated in depth. The present study attempts to address this gap, drawing on insights from critical GIS and political economy. Scholarship in critical GIS has underlined the importance of power relations in constituting organizational GIS practices, and vice versa. Moreover, perspectives from scalar politics and network analysis provide a useful way to delineate and analyse the spatialized social relations shaping and embedded in GIS constructions. In particular, scaled networks conceptualize social connections and power relations in terms of networks of actors embedded in different spatial extents; within this synthesized framework, we contend, local government organizations serve as both sites and nodes in developing and employing GIS. Through an in-depth case study of the city of Shenzhen, we investigate in what ways both territorial conditions and interrelations across organizational and city boundaries influence governmental GIS development. Such an investigation helps to politicize the constructions of GIS in China's changing urban governance, which will contribute to ongoing discussions in critical GIS aimed at understanding the mutual constitution of GIS and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects upon an integrated territorial initiative known as RUI (Integrated Urban Revitalization), which has been implemented in a number of Montreal neighbourhoods that have been particularly afflicted by poverty and social exclusion. In these areas, a series of Integrated Urban Revitalization pilot-projects have been implemented with a view to creating new development opportunities. The inter-sectoral RUI approach (health, education, crime prevention, housing, employment, transportation, environment...) advances governance, gives rise to a new generation of networks and partnerships and exposes structures to participative democracy. The RUI initiative also purports to contribute to rebuilding the identity and culture of disadvantaged people, strengthening territorial bonds (the neighbourhood as a place of belonging and social interaction) and reinforcing territorial cohesion. The RUI incorporates a bottom-up logic and constitutes a stimulus to the social economy by reinforcing the networks and institutional capacity of Montreal's society and economy, but the State cannot afford not to participate in the quest for a fairer and more sustainable urban development model. Some of the lessons from this experience can be usefully transferred and adapted to other territories subject to exclusion and poverty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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RECENT CHANGES IN TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE PROCESSES IN PORTUGAL. The current context in which nation-states find themselves is clearly different from that in which they were founded and consolidated. This fact has given rise to the need to rethink both their modus operandi and their role in society and the economy. Against this new, fragmented and complex social setting, the Urban Policy Polis XXI has evolved and become increasingly relevant and useful for the study of new models of urban governance and territorial development. This note seeks to: 1) sum up a set of conceptual considerations with regard to the challenges in terms of territorial governance that are faced by Western nationstates in general and Portugal in particular; 2) discuss the Urban Policy Polis XXI against this new and evolving background; and 3) propose a framework for evaluating the performance of the inter-organizational partnerships promoted within the context of the Urban Policy Polis XXI as a new territorial governance mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Discursive social movement, political economy and institutional approaches tend to dominate studies of large urban centres and, in particular, efforts to assess the prospects for progressive public policies in them. This article uses a revised version of Vincent Lemieux's 1996 framework to compare Toronto and London, two cities that underwent major governance transitions during the late 1990s, with respect to their normative discourse, fiscal resource, institutional and local leadership contexts. The discussion concludes that talk, money, design and mayoral factors seemed less conducive to progressive policy outcomes in early post-transition Toronto than London. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]