Download or read book Geosimulation written by Itzhak Benenson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geosimulation is hailed as ‘the next big thing’ in geographic modelling for urban studies. This book presents readers with an overview of this new and innovative field by introducing the spatial modelling environment and describing the latest research and development using cellular automata and multi-agent systems. Extensive case studies and working code is available from an associated website which demonstrate the technicalities of geosimulation, and provide readers with the tools to carry out their own modelling and testing. The first book to treat urban geosimulation explicitly, integrating socio-economic and environmental modelling approaches Provides the reader with a sound theoretical base in the science of geosimulation as well as applied material on the construction of geosimulation models Cross-references to an author-maintained associated website with downloadable working code for readers to apply the models presented in the book Visit the Author's Website for further information on Geosimulation, Geographic Automata Systems and Geographic Automata Software http://www.geosimulationbook.com

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Download or read book Sexing the Citizen written by Judith Surkis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did marriage come to be seen as the foundation and guarantee of social stability in Third Republic France? In Sexing the Citizen, Judith Surkis shows how masculine sexuality became central to the making of a republican social order. Marriage, Surkis argues, affirmed the citizen's masculinity, while also containing and controlling his desires. This ideal offered a specific response to the problems—individualism, democratization, and rapid technological and social change—associated with France's modernity. This rich, wide-ranging cultural and intellectual history provides important new insights into how concerns about sexuality shaped the Third Republic's pedagogical projects. Educators, political reformers, novelists, academics, and medical professionals enshrined marriage as the key to eliminating the risks of social and sexual deviance posed by men-especially adolescents, bachelors, bureaucrats, soldiers, and colonial subjects. Debates on education reform and venereal disease reveal how seriously the social policies of the Third Republic took the need to control the unstable aspects of male sexuality. Surkis's compelling analyses of republican moral philosophy and Emile Durkheim's sociology illustrate the cultural weight of these concerns and provide an original account of modern French thinking about society. More broadly, Sexing the Citizen illuminates how sexual norms continue to shape the meaning of citizenship.

Download or read book Reign of Virtue written by Miranda Pollard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

Download or read book Virtual Geographic Environments written by Hui Lin and published by ESRI Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and "virtual geographies." Contributions by leading members of the geospatial community to Virtual Geographic Environments illustrate the cutting edge of GIScience, as well as new applications of GIS with the processing and delivery of geographic information through the Web and handheld devices, forming two major directions to these developments. The four-part organization leads from a primer on VGEs to virtual cities and landscapes, interface design and public participation, and finally mobile and networked VGEs. Current topics, such as crowd sourcing and related services, point to the development of new business models that merge proprietary and nonproprietary systems.

Download or read book La mixit sociale dans l habitat francilien written by Audrey Pierrot and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La mixité sociale constitue aujourd'hui un nouveau paradigme applicable à toutes les politiques publiques urbaines. Elle est née de la volonté des pouvoirs publics de remédier aux problématiques existantes au sein des quartiers sensibles franciliens qui se caractérisent par une forme de ségrégation spatiale et sociale. Ce mémoire dresse donc un bilan de la mixité sociale dans l'habitat et interroge la pertinence de cette exigence à travers l'examen des différents quartiers franciliens.

Download or read book What is Masculinity written by J. Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.

Download or read book Urban Remote Sensing written by Xiaojun Yang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Remote Sensing is designed for upper level undergraduates, graduates, researchers and practitioners, and has a clear focus on the development of remote sensing technology for monitoring, synthesis and modeling in the urban environment. It covers four major areas: the use of high-resolution satellite imagery or alternative sources of image date (such as high-resolution SAR and LIDAR) for urban feature extraction; the development of improved image processing algorithms and techniques for deriving accurate and consistent information on urban attributes from remote sensor data; the development of analytical techniques and methods for deriving indicators of socioeconomic and environmental conditions that prevail within urban landscape; and the development of remote sensing and spatial analytical techniques for urban growth simulation and predictive modeling.

Download or read book Urban Remote Sensing written by Xiaojun X. Yang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Remote Sensing The second edition of Urban Remote Sensing is a state-of-the-art review of the latest progress in the subject. The text examines how evolving innovations in remote sensing allow to deliver the critical information on cities in a timely and cost-effective way to support various urban management activities and the scientific research on urban morphology, socio-environmental dynamics, and sustainability. Chapters are written by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines including remote sensing, GIS, geography, urban planning, environmental science, and sustainability science, with case studies predominately drawn from North America and Europe. A review of the essential and emerging research areas in urban remote sensing including sensors, techniques, and applications, especially some critical issues that are shifting the ­directions in urban remote sensing research. Illustrated in full color throughout, including numerous relevant case studies and extensive discussions of important concepts and cutting-edge technologies to enable clearer understanding for non-technical audiences. Urban Remote Sensing, Second Edition will be of particular interest to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professionals working in the fields of remote sensing, geospatial information, and urban & environmental planning.

Download or read book Idees recues sur le logement social written by Jean-Marc Stébé and published by Le Cavalier Bleu Editions. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les difficultés de logement, récurrentes depuis plusieurs décennies en France, ont placé l’habitat social au coeur du débat public, ce qui n’a pas manqué de susciter approximations, croyances et idées reçues. Les logements sociaux seraient ainsi pour les pauvres, ils seraient également un repère de délinquants qui zonent entre des barres et des tours délabrées, etc. Pourtant, créées au début du XXe siècle, les HBM, devenues HLM en 1950, hébergent aujourd’hui plus de 10 millions de personnes dans près de 4,6 millions de logements. C’est dire si le logement social s’est développé et diversifié ! Partant des idées reçues les plus courantes, cet ouvrage permet au lecteur de mieux comprendre cet univers complexe du logement social au travers de statistiques, d’analyses précises et de témoignages factuels, fruits de nombreuses années de recherche des auteurs sur ce sujet.

Download or read book Ces banlieues qui nous font peur written by Nicolas Buchroud and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Banlieues", "Ghettos", "Zones de non-droit" et maintenant "quartiers indignes de la République". Ces appellations successives sont formulées par les responsables politiques et constamment martelées par les médias. En réponse s'exprime un discours visant à la démolition massive de ces quartiers. Mais en supprimant le symbole de ce qui nous fait peur, les quartiers d'habitat social, aura-t-on pour autant supprimé les causes du mal ? Une réflexion basée sur une expérience concrète menée depuis plusieurs années à Corbeil-Essonne.

Download or read book Droit au logement et mixit written by Noémie Houard and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette recherche combine une approche par le bas du logement social reposant sur l'étude approfondie de contextes locaux et une approche par le haut reconstituant les logiques ayant prévalu à la mise sur agenda du droit au logement et de la mixité sociale. A partir d'entretiens, des publications de l'Union nationale des HLM, d'une revue de presse et de l'exploitation des débats parlementaires, elle met en évidence la tension entre droit au logement et mixité sociale, qui relèvent de préoccupations différentes voire contradictoires...

Download or read book Politiques de peuplement et logement social written by Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine (France). Comité d'évaluation et de suivi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La mixité sociale est au coeur des objectifs du programme national de rénovation urbaine qui se déploie depuis 2003 .dans plus de 400 quartiers en France. Le CES de l'ANRU a déjà mis en évidence l'apport avéré mais limité de la diversification de l'habitat sur le peuplement des quartiers (La rénovation urbaine pour qui ?, La Documentation française, 2013). Au terme des projets de rénovation urbaine, les logements sociaux resteront majoritaires dans les quartiers et l'évolution de leur peuplement sera déterminante. A partir de l'analyse détaillée d'une vingtaine de quartiers en rénovation urbaine, Fanny Lainé-Daniel (Ville et Habitat), Christophe Noyé (Cf Géo) et Francis Rathier (Bers) dressent le constat d'une baisse inédite du niveau de ségrégation des quartiers étudiés, conséquence directe de la politique de démolitions-reconstructions. Cette révolution fragile et temporaire doit nécessairement, sous peine d'anéantir l'effet positif de la rénovation urbaine, être accompagnée d'une mise en oeuvre de politiques de peuplement volontaristes mêlant actions sur l'offre, attributions de logements sociaux et accompagnement des ménages. L'étude ici menée dégage une trentaine de propositions concrètes conçues pour généraliser ces stratégies globales de peuplement.