Cities of the World
15/01/2023 12:00
I am not a great fan of the British weekly "The Economist", particularly of their recurrent stance against land and housing regulations. However they sometimes produce interesting pieces on urban issues, like the attached article on the positive evolution of Latin American cities.
Cities in Latin...
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21/11/2022 00:00
Daniel Biau, 20 November 2022
Yesterday in Sharm el-Sheikh, COP 27 decided that developed nations should help developing countries pay for the catastrophic consequences of climate change - a “historic” agreement reached after weeks of negotiations and celebrated by the participants.
We should...
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05/10/2022 00:00
The Urban Economy Forum is a Toronto-based initiative that focuses on urban economics and municipal finance. Its 4th session, on “Sustainable Urban Finance”, was held on 3-4 October 2022. Daniel Biau made the short intervention below in one of the round-tables.
Dear Colleagues,
I...
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08/04/2022 09:00
General elections will take place in Kenya in August 2022. It is therefore time to have a look at the country achievements during the last five years.
Launched in December 2017, the “Big Four” Agenda was the Government's set of priority programmes to be implemented from 2018 to 2022. The Big Four...
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01/05/2021 19:37
Présentation du livre "Alioune Badiane, Homme du Futur" dans Global Urban Think Tank.
https://www.urbanistes.info/alioune-badiane-homme-du-futur-un-livre-essentiel/
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01/05/2021 19:31
Presentation of the book "Alioune Badiane, a Man of the Future" in Global Urban Think Tank.
https://www.urbanistes.info/alioune-badiane-a-man-of-the-future-an-essential-book/
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06/10/2020 21:30
The 2nd Urban Economy Forum (UEF) was held virtually from Toronto, Canada, on 5-6 October 2020. Daniel Biau was invited to contribute to a session on urban transformations that might be accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. His paper identifies eleven “shifting paradigms” which are likely to have...
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31/05/2020 10:00
A worldwide survey carried out by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Future of Democracy revealed that the proportion of the global population that was dissatisfied with democracy reached 58% in 2019. At the time of the publication of this study, I had just read three stimulating...
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30/05/2020 10:00
Une enquête mondiale, réalisée par le Centre for the Future of Democracy de l'Université de Cambridge, a révélé que la proportion de la population mondiale insatisfaite de la démocratie atteignait 58 % en 2019. Au moment de la publication de cette étude, je venais de lire trois livres...
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24/05/2020 09:01
Que signifie la pandémie du Covid-19 pour la région dont l’urbanisation est la plus rapide du monde, l’Afrique ?
Les gouvernements et les citoyens africains sont aujourd’hui confrontés aux risques posés par la pandémie, notamment dans les quartiers spontanés, foyers potentiels de...
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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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