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Conference on the theme of “Metropolitanisation”
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K. Marius-Gnanou (University of Bordeaux 3, France), who coordinates at the IFP a research project on the dynamics of the city of Chennai, organised on June 7, 2007, in Bordeaux, France, a conference on the theme : "Metropolitanisation : methods and analysis tools".
This conference, which gathered eminent specialists (geographers, economists, country planners,…) in urban development, had as an objective, to compare different methodological and disciplinary approaches to the development of big cities, through cases studies selected notably from Asia.
This conference is a prelude to an ambitious project of a geo-referenced database of World towns, cities and metropolises, coordinated by the SEDET (Laboratory “Societies Developing in Space and Time ; University of Paris 7), which has just been proposed to French National Agency for Research (ANR). The Laboratory of Applied Informatics and Geomatics of the IFP is associated to the set-up of the project, for what concerns the Indian part.
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