Environnement Urbain / Urban Environment est une revue internationale et interdisciplinaire dédiée à l’étude des rapports que les sociétés urbaines entretiennent avec leur milieu. Elle accueille des textes originaux de qualité qui abordent l’une ou l’autre, ou plusieurs à la fois, des dimensions sociales, politiques, géographiques, culturelles, anthropologiques ou économiques de l’environnement. Son domaine d’étude est toutefois réservé aux espaces urbains ou métropolitains. Les thèmes comprennent, entre autres, l'histoire de l'environnement, le statut de nature dans la ville, les attributs et qualités des milieux naturels et bâtis, l'impact des stress environnementaux sur la santé, la gouvernance métropolitaine et les aspects environnementaux des économies urbaines. La revue n’impose aucune restriction sur la façon dont les contributeurs souhaitent traiter ces questions.
This paper considers urban studies as a field of composite research based on academic and action knowledge. Il proposes to trace the contribution of monographs of cities and neighborhoods, wrote from the beginning of urban studies, to the questions of professionals. It brings together the history of...
This paper discusses the place of theory in planning research in France. It relies on various materials: a review of literature, the mobilization of exchanges that took place during a colloquium in 2016, as well as an analysis of the content of French urban planning education programs. The paper fir...
This article is deliberately exploratory in terms of urban studies. He pleads for an sensitization of urban studies and wonders about a possible urban ecology of ambiances. Three major processes are particularly explored: 1) the aestheticization of urban spaces and the setting of our living environm...
This article argues that urban studies have not reached a status of clearly defined discipline in France due to the epistemological conflicts that shape the social sciences dedicated to the urban phenomena. Based on the example of a research protocol dealing with the implementation of French program...
Now that the crisis is not only economic, but also social and environmental, the well-being in the urban environment becomes a primary question. In recent years, the solution seems to appear in the nature and the biodiversity that are able to act against pollution and depression for example. Local i...
Ecosystem services were studied in urban areas even before the MEA report (2005). In addition, introducing the multifunctionality aspect of green spaces in urban planning is strongly suggested. Thus, the aim of this study is to discuss how the transition of the role of urban green spaces (from esthe...
Soils, as ecosystems provide services that are also called ecosystem services. In the context of natural resources preservation, urban soils are expected to be multifunctional and to provide high level of ecosystem services ( e.g. vegetation support, building support, flood control). Therefore, ther...
Sustainable development (SD), which is based on three main pillars, environmental, economic and social, to which the cultural has been added, has become a main reference of urban public policies. As a result of Agenda 21 of the 1992 Rio Summit, cities adopted local SD programs of action. The design...
The article present the results of two research projects on the factors playing a role in the process by which agglomerations attempt or not to integrated energy in their policies at the territorial level. We draw mostly from our empirical data, from both a survey and semi directive interviews. We a...
Les services écosystémiques sont devenus, au cours de ces vingt dernières années, un concept mobilisé de manière récurrente dans les politiques publiques de préservation de la biodiversité. L’économie et la géographie sont appelées à jouer un rôle important dans la conduite de ces politiques, dans l...
This article concern the possibilities of using quality management principles prescribed by the ISO 9000 for industrial wastewater management, with potential customers ecosystem receptors. The consideration of ecosystems as customers nevertheless raises sensitive issues such as the assessment of the...
In this article, we evaluate the degree of congruence between common ecosystem services mapping methods and plant composition in the peri-urban context of the Île-de-France’ green belt. First, we use a proxy-based mapping method, based on land cover data, and, second, we use more accurate mapping mo...
The concept of transit-oriented development (TOD) has now become a fixture in planning documents of metropolitan areas around the world. Looking at the Greater Montreal area, this article discuss the recontextualisation of the (abstract) idea of TOD and the specific ways in which it has been defined...
This article critiques the transit-oriented development (TOD) strategy of the Greater Montreal Area in light of the guidelines of this concept. It draws on thematic analyses of planning documents, public interventions of mayors and planners of the area and interviews with 26 of them. It shows that s...
Since the 1960s, many interventions have been made in Old Montreal and its former faubourgs to promoting patrimonial conservation and tourism development strategies. However, a third strategy – residential development – was implemented and contributed in reshaping the social and urban fabrics of a l...
This paper investigates evolutions in and alternatives to the “sustainable development” paradigm and examines these new trends. It offers a review of the social science literature that focuses on the language of the “sustainable city” used by researchers and experts in sociology, geography and urban...
Providing areas for nearby nature and spontaneous vegetation, urban wastelands can offer cultural ecosystem services in cities. Our study of wastelands’ perceptions and informal uses by residents shows that such temporary urban ecosystems can be perceived as abandoned land, recreative or free green...
The evolution of institutional and policy frameworks for Ecosystem Services (ES), especially the new 2016 biodiversity legislation in France, make accounting for ES in land use management mandatory. This requires the use of spatially explicit information, and therefore the development of models to m...
In this article we examine how (alongside with other factors) the relationship that individuals have to their living environment affects their leisure mobility. We first elaborate a typology (comprising 5 types) of individuals according to their stated relationship to their living environment. Using...
This paper aims to define the role of suburban areas in the context of sustainable regional development. A statistical analysis is carried out on individual daily mobility data collected in Grenoble Area (France) in order to detect where the flows are polarized. The analysis show how inhabitant’s tr...
In order to clarify the ambivalence, with regard to ecosystem’ services, of urban wastelands, reservoirs of both native biodiversity and alien and invasive species, we studied plant diversity of urban wastelands in two medium-sized cities in France. Our results show that urban wastelands host a grea...
Cet article propose de comprendre comment la notion de services écosystémiques fonctionne de manière affective en milieu urbain. Les affects apparaissent ciblés et façonnés par un pouvoir qui cherche à rendre la présence de la nature en ville attractive et désirable. Ils contribuent à produire une n...