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Abstract People seem to have an early understanding of the world around them, and the other people in it. Before children can reliably say "ball", "wall", or "Saul", they expect balls not to go through walls, and for Saul to go right for a ball (if …

The Origins of Geometric Symbols since Prehistory: A Language of Thought? Abstract In the Lascaux cave, just below the magnificent drawing of a large deer, is the simple but unmistakable outline of a rectangle. All over the world, since prehistoric times, …

Abstract The twenty-two administrative metropolises and the agglomerations surrounding major urban centers share a number of specific features in terms of both vulnerability and capacity for action. The density of their populations, facilities and …

Keynote conference. Abstract The evolution of cities in response to global warming, whether in terms of transport logistics, decarbonization of the economy or adaptation to new climatic conditions, will lead to an evolution of materials in the direction …

Abstract The purpose of this presentation is to analyze the current and future role of the hospital in the city, and more generally in the …

Abstract Cities of the future will need to monitor pathogen mutations in animal and human populations to anticipate species crossings causing pandemics. They will need to prepare these populations with sentinels to detect early warning signals, and with …

Keynote conference. Abstract Cities are home to a high proportion of the population ; temperature, air pollution and noise levels are generally higher there than elsewhere ; and they are more vulnerable to rising sea levels and flood risks. As a result, …

Abstract To meet future urban challenges, many cities have embarked on a process of " renaturation ", through revegetation programs and actions to increase biodiversity. These actions have many positive impacts on the health and well-being of residents. …

Abstract Philippe Clergeau will present the concept of regenerative urbanism, after recalling the definitions of biodiversity and ecosystems, which are essential to a liveable, sustainable city. Nature-based solutions already permeate architecture, but we …

Abstract For centuries, it was expected that all planetary systems, by virtue of the universality of physical laws, would roughly resemble our own, with small rocky planets on the inside and gas giants on the outside, all on nearly circular, coplanar …

Abstract Cities are particularly exposed to hydro-climatic hazards, now exacerbated by anthropogenic global warming. As both major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerable territories, cities are called upon to be drivers of mitigation and …

Abstract This paper examines the future of cities by shifting the focus to the African continent. The aim is to consider African cities as places for exploring new imaginaries and new ways of inhabiting the world. This reflection comes at a crucial time …

Abstract When it comes to building, as with energy, the new doesn't make the old disappear. The extraordinary rise of concrete between 1950 and 2000, far from eradicating other building materials, allowed them to grow : glass of course, steel, wood, but …

Abstract New York, the city of exile for the Surrealists and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, is the capital of the modern, but also the refuge of the archaic. " Ali Baba's cave ", it provides backdoor exits and an escape from the time of …