The aim of this study is to analyse the combinations of innovation, financial and sustainable
development conditions that enhance the entrepreneurship level of a country. A cross …

Urban shrinkage, and more recently the rise of right-sizing and smart-shrinkage as
responses to its challenges, have attracted attention among scholars and policy-makers …

Traditional urban planning projects require considerable time, political buy-in, and capital.
Conversely, small-scale urban interventions can be executed quickly and inexpensively …

In the light of social and environmental unsustainability and injustice, the continuing
attachment to the idea that a growth-based economy is reconcilable with human prosperity …

The aim of this paper is to ground gentrification processes within a broader urban
transformation pattern and within a deeper historical account, taking an ordinary city into …

A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such
'urban makeovers' lie serious problems such as widening inequalities, job precarity …

La smart city serait-elle le seul modèle de ville «intelligente»? Pas nécessairement, si l'on
considère l'espace ouvert par le projet de la fab city, qui reprend l'esprit des fab labs pour …

Pour l'analyse de ces projets d'écologie industrielle, les données ont été recueillies dans le
cadre de précédents travaux (Beaurain, Varlet; 2015; Beaurain, Maillefert, Varlet, 2017) à …

Environmental sustainability is a major focal point of urban planning, yet scholarly discourse
often fails to grapple with the environmental contradictions inherent in the reliance on …

This chapter discusses changes and contemporary challenges that allotment gardens
encounter in European cities. The perspective of urban political economy guides us in …