Information systems and urban management (18th-21st centuries)

No 111-112, 2018/1 - 124 pages

Legend for the picture on the cover: IBM, Rio Operations Center, 2014.
Source: with kind permission of IBM.

Information systems and urban management (18th-21st centuries)

Pages 1 to 6

Introduction

By Konstantinos Chatzis, Marie Thébaud-Sorger

Pages 7 to 18

Receiving emergency calls in Paris (1920-1980): Flow management of medical and rescue services

By Charles-Antoine Wanecq

Pages 19 to 31

“The 175 falls on the banks of the Seine – 3 dead”: Information flow, risk management and prevention in the Parisian bus network (1920-1980)

By Arnaud Passalacqua

Pages 32 to 43

Buildings: An information medium, 20th-21st centuries

By Stéphanie Le Gallic

Pages 44 to 56

Birth, reorganization or formalization of an information system? Cleaning the streets of Paris, 16th-18th centuries

By Nicolas Lyon-Caen, Raphaël Morera

Pages 57 to 79

Capturing and mapping the urban mobility practices and desires of american households (from the inter-war period to the 1960s)

By Konstantinos Chatzis

Pages 80 to 93

Cities and information systems: From the birth of modern urbanism to the emergence of the smart city

By Antoine Picon

Pages 94 to 103

Variations in the thickness of urban soil in Paris from 1807-2016: Topo-historical method and cartography

By Mathieu Fernandez

Interview

Pages 104 to 110

Automobile dependence. Back to the genesis of the concept and its political stakes

By interview with Gabriel Dupuy, conducted by Caroline Gallez

Bibliography

Pages 111 to 114

Réseaux ferrés et territoires. La géographie humaine du chemin de fer – un retour aux sources. Nacima Baron, Pierre Messulam. Paris: Presses des Ponts, 2019

By Sophie Deraëve

Pages 115 to 117

Politique des infrastructures : permanence, effacement, disparition. Dominique Rouillard (ed.). Geneva: Métis Presses, 2020

By Denis Bocquet

Pages 118 to 119

Villes en transition. L’expérience partagée des Écocités. Edited by Florent Hébert, Marseille: Parenthèses, 2017

By Géraldine Bouchet-Blancou

Pages 120 to 122

L’architecture des déplacements, Gares ferroviaires du Japon. Corinne Tiry Ono. Paris: infolio, Collection Archigraphy Poche, 2018

By Nacima Baron

Pages 123 to 123

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