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Looking for an example of an interactive and collaborative map? 

Strasbourg innovates with an online map to collect the residents and users' opinion about urban planning.

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Un article pas très long et intéressant qui pose la question de l'exposition des résidents urbains à la pollution : pourquoi les nouvelles habitations sont-elles si proches d'un important axe routier tel que la Route du Rhin ? En toile de fond, une autre question : le mode de vie urbain peut-il être durable ?

Ci-dessous, une capture de Google maps localisant la Route du Rhin juste au Su de la presqu'île Austerlitz

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Géographie urbaine de la France. Les communes périphériques à croissance spectaculaire, appelées bommburbs, ont une croissance démographique comprise entre 76% et 435% entre le recensement de 1975 et celui de 2006. Alors que la moyenne française est de 16,7%.

Cette carte commentée est extraite du n°702 de Population et Avenir, "Boomburbs à la française. Les 54 communes périphériques à croissance spectaculaire", mars-avril 2011, p. 20. Elle est accompagné d’un article de Laurent Chalard pp. 4-7.

> Les Français en 1914 // podcast de l'émission  Répliques (France Culture - 23/03/2013)

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Regional nationalism in Europe: a factor of spatial fragmentation?

Within the European Union identity or separatist trends are observed in the frame of Nation-states members, for instance in Catalonia, Flanders, Scotland, Northern Italy, Corsica or the Basque country. By claiming national aspirations that often go beyond the only recognition of a cultural, economical or regional personality within their origin state, these trends are to be distinguished from “regionalism” and can thus be qualified as regional nationalisms. Not only their claim for autonomy can sometimes question the legitimacy of the state on which they depend, as today’s incapacity of Belgian institutions to address the autonomy willingness of the Flemings shows it, but also because their claim reference is that of the Nation-State. Regional nationalisms question in fact the potential splitting up of the European political space and the risks of dilution and breaking up of old European states into small state entities with limited economical viability seen as a factor of instability.

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