Cities of the World
10/05/2009 00:00
Mille milliards de dollars
Le 7 septembre 2008, les deux géants du refinancement hypothécaire américain, Fannie Mae et Freddie Mac, ont été quasiment nationalisés par l’injection de 200 milliards de dollars du Trésor américain. Ils possédaient ensemble un portefeuille de plus de 5 billions...
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01/03/2009 00:00
Global Financial Crisis - Misleading Housing Policies.pdf
Chinese version published in Urban and Rural Development (URD), Beijing, 2009
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01/03/2009 00:00
The rise of Chinese and Indian cities.pdf
Chinese version published in "Human Settlements" magazine, Beijing, 2009
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15/01/2009 00:00
Analyzing the world financial crisis which marked the end of 2008, this article of January 2009 (published in "Urban World", March 2009, in "Urbanisme", Paris, May 2009, in URD, Beijing, 2009 and in PoSIbles, Buenos Aires, 4/2009) called for a serious debate on housing finance systems. This is...
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24/11/2008 00:00
UN-Habitat has recently published the first “State of African Cities Report” in which a substantive chapter is devoted to East Africa, including to its largest cities of Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Dar Es-Salaam, and to its smaller agglomerations.
Before presenting the challenges that the...
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01/11/2008 00:00
China-India Urbanization.pdf
Article published in the Chinese Architectural Journal, Beijing, 2008
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03/11/2007 00:00
L’histoire de l’Italie, berceau de l’urbanisation européenne, commence avec les Etrusques, entre Florence et Rome. Ils fondent les premières cités 600 ans avant notre ère selon un urbanisme méticuleux, avec des maisons bâties autour d’une cour, et des nécropoles. Ils s’organisent déjà en...
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19/08/2007 00:00
China and India are the two demographic giants of the planet. They count together close to 2.5 billion inhabitants, representing more than 37 % of the world population (estimated at 6.6 billion people in 2007).
They are about to become economic giants and are seriously shaking traditional power...
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05/05/2007 00:00
L’histoire de la Chine illustrerait selon certains spécialistes une loi fondamentale de la dialectique, celle de l’unité des contraires. L’histoire de l’urbanisation chinoise alterne effectivement des phases de centralisation et d’autonomie, de structuration pyramidale et de laisser-faire...
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01/05/2007 00:00
China - 3000 years of Urbanization.pdf
Urban Planning Forum, Tongji University, 2007
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