Compreender o comportamento emergente nos territórios urbanos é fundamental para estudar e direcionar com maior eficiência as políticas públicas. Considerando que as emergências urbanas são elementos presentes no cotidiano das cidades não é possível ao Estado não levá-las em conta ao formular suas ações púbicas. Tomando como premissa que a sociedade é um corpo vivo, onde cada órgão cumpre uma função, busca-se o caminho para instrumentalizar ações políticas adequadas às emergências urbanas. Assim, o objetivo do estudo é refletir sobre o comportamento emergente a partir do estudo de caso da Regional CIC, levando em conta os aspectos do planejamento político e aqueles relativos à auto-organização dos espaços e territórios. O estudo, em seus métodos de pesquisa, é exploratóriodescritivo, com delineamento analítico e configurando-se como estudo de caso. A análise realizada é qualitativa, buscando a relação do caso concreto descrito com a literatura estudada e o universo de pesquisa corresponde à cidade de Curitiba, tendo como amostragem direta a Regional CIC. Por meio do estudo literário levantou-se que o comportamento emergente nos espaços urbanos é uma constante, especialmente em cidades ou territórios em constante desenvolvimento como é o caso da cidade de Curitiba – PR. Os sistemas emergentes são resultado de processos que envolvem ordem e desordem e auto-organização, tendo os sistemas de redes como elemento para sua constituição. As emergências urbanas, seguindo os conceitos emergentistas, não podem ser previstas ou planejadas, surgem a partir de um processo auto-organizado, de baixo para cima, onde níveis inferiores produzem novas propriedades com características complexas. Ao analisar a criação da Regional CIC percebe-se que diversos elementos emergentes estão presentes, tendo destaque os seguintes: Criação da Cidade industrial de Curitiba, regionalização e territorialização, desterritorialização (desmembramento do bairro), redes setoriais planejadas ou não e interorganizacionais e ênfase aos aspectos humanos e éticos. Percebe-se que as políticas públicas analisadas têm elementos emergentes, pois são descentralizas, trabalham em sistema de redes, trocam informações constantes com a comunidade e procuram influenciar, sem controlar, os territórios em desenvolvimento. Pode-se concluir que as políticas públicas não devem buscar o controle dos movimentos urbanos e dos processos emergentes, mas incentivar a criatividade e a capacidade de auto-organização dos grupos sociais, sendo ela mesma, um dos componentes dos sistemas urbanos emergentes. / Understanding the emergent behavior in urban areas is essential to study more efficiently and drive public policy. Whereas the urban emergencies are elements present in the daily life of cities is not possible for the state not take them into account when formulating their actions pubic area. Taking as its premise that society is a living body, where each agency fulfills a function, we seek to equip the way for appropriate policy actions to urban emergencies. The objective of this study is to reflect on the emergent behavior from the case study of the Regional CIC, taking into account aspects of planning policy and those related to self-organization of spaces and territories. The study, in its methods of research is exploratory and descriptive, analytical and design configured as a case study. The analysis is qualitative, seeking the relationship of the case described in the literature studied and the universe of research is the city of Curitiba, with the direct sampling the Regional CIC. Through the literary study arose that the emergent behavior in urban areas is a constant, especially in cities or territories in constant development as is the case of Curitiba - PR. The emerging systems are the result of processes that involve order and disorder and self-organization, and network systems as an element in its constitution. The urban emergencies, following the emergentist concepts, can not be predicted or planned, arise from a self-organizing process, from the bottom up, which produce lower levels of new properties with complex traits. By analyzing the creation of the Regional CIC realizes that many emerging elements are present, and highlighted the following: Creation of the Industrial City of Curitiba, regionalization and territorialization, deterritorialization (dismemberment of the neighborhood), sectoral networks planned or unplanned, and interorganizational and emphasis to human and ethical aspects. It is felt that public policies have analyzed emerging elements because they are descentralizas, working in the system of networks, exchange information in the community and seek to influence, not control, the territories in development. It can be concluded that public policy should not seek control of urban movements and emerging processes, but encourage creativity and self-organization of social groups, being herself, one of the components of urban systems emerging.

Esta tese analisa os Planos Regionais Estratégicos das Subprefeituras do Butantã, Lapa, Pinheiros, Sé e Vila Mariana (Lei Municipal n0 13.885/04), com o objetivo de verificar a integração dos mesmos entre si e com o referencial fixo representado pelo Plano Diretor Estratégico do Município de São Paulo (Lei Municipal n0 13.430/02). O Plano Regional Estratégico de cada Subprefeitura deve se articular com o Plano Regional das Subprefeituras adjacentes e, quando for o caso, com os municípios limítrofes e a região metropolitana, devendo fazê-lo em um contexto relacional consistente. A questão da integração dos Planos Regionais foi examinada através dos seguintes temas: Rede Estrutural Hídrica Ambiental, Rede Viária Estrutural e Uso e Ocupação do Solo. A análise destas leis foi desenvolvida em um contexto de revisão dos paradigmas relativos ao exercício do planejamento urbano, desencadeado pela Lei Federal n0 10.257/2001 ? Estatuto da Cidade, que criou e regulamentou vários instrumentos da política urbana, vinculando-os ao plano diretor. / The present thesis analyzes the Strategic Regional Plans of Sub-Districts of Butantã, Lapa, Pinheiros, Sé and Vila Mariana (Municipal Law n0 13.885/04), with the purpose of verifying the aforementioned plans integration within themselves and with the fixed referential represented by the Strategic Master Plan of São Paulo City (Municipal Law n0 13.430/02). The Strategic Regional Plan of each Sub-District must be articulated with the Regional Plan of adjacent Sub-districts, and with the adjoining cities and the metropolitan region, having it done in a consistent related context. The matter of the Regional Plans integration was analyzed through the following themes: Environmental Hydro Structural Network, Structural Roads Network, and Ground Use and Occupation. The analysis of such laws was developed within a context of review on paradigms related to urban planning work, unleashed by Federal Law n010.257/2001 ? City?s Decree, which created and regulated several instruments of urban politics, attaching them to the Master Plan.

Orientador: Maria Stella Martins Bresciani / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T22:14:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Araujo_PatriciaVargasLopesde_D.pdf: 4587473 bytes, checksum: c5a3278b7c9a42607d2c8fd177d238ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Esta tese tem como objetivo discutir o significado da criação de vilas em Minas Gerais no final do século XVIII, destacando em particular a Vila de Campanha da Princesa, criada por alvará da rainha d. Maria I em 1798. Além disso, procura analisar como se processa o ordenamento urbano desta vila, destacando-se a preocupação por parte das autoridades instaladas e de suas elites, com relação à urbanidade e à civilidade de seus habitantes. Tem-se como proposta ainda verificar como circulavam os princípios e os valores do pensamento liberal, bem como o que estes significavam em função da idealização do urbano e de sua organização. Tem-se como finalidade também acompanhar as mudanças políticas, sociais e econômicas ocorridas no Brasil entre a segunda metade do século XVIII e o início do século XIX, percebendo como estas transformações influenciou na organização administrativa da Vila de Campanha da Princesa e no comportamento de seus habitantes / Abstract: This thesis has as objective to discuss the meaning of the creation of small towns in Minas Gerais at the end of the XVIII century, distinguishing Campanha da Princesa small town specially, and it was created by Queen Maria I's charter in 1798. Moreover it attempts to analyze how the urban ordering worked in this small town, where it was becoming evident the worries of the authorities and their elites settled down with regard to urbanity and civility of their inhabitants. It still has as proposal to verify how they diffused the bases and the values of the liberal thought, as well as what they meant as for the urban idealization and its organization. It also has as purpose to follow politics, social and economic changes that occurred in Brazil between the second half of XVIII century and the beginning of the XIX century, noticing how these transformations actuated in the administrative organization of Campanha da Princesa small town and in the behavior of its inhabitants / Doutorado / Politica, Memoria e Cidade / Doutor em História

The urban study is related to the notion of continuity of the different threatening conditions to physical, biological and socio wellness of the built space. The occupational dimension was observed with advanced techniques in Geographic Information System (GIS) and evaluated from the degree of accessibility and mobility directly guided by the patterns and processes of constructed space in which mobile and immobile elements are ordered. Both the environment people live in a state of continuous and profound environmental changes and the dynamic urban conditions. The urban space continues with a negative balance in the set of network that has been modernized in the current metropolitan system, the dynamics of urban structure is compromised by mobility circularity and municipal boundaries that the road network and its vectored patterns are actively oriented to the ecological conditions of the current state of the critical socio-organization. The city of Aracaju and its metropolitan area are the main determinants as complementary arrangements of roads and require a reorganization to improve their access and mobility implying its broadest extension. A solution to the urbanized space can be suggested starting from necessary and urgent reform of the metropolitan road network aiming fluidity and distribution of space and movement. / O estudo urbano está relacionado à continuidade das diferentes condições ameaçadoras ao bem estar físico, biológico e socioambiental do espaço construído. Neste sentido, a dimensão ocupacional foi observada com técnica avançada em Sistema de Informação Geográfica (SIG), avaliada a partir do grau de acessibilidade e mobilidade pautada nos padrões e processos do espaço construído, no qual elementos moveis e imóveis estão ordenados. O espaço urbano continua com um saldo negativo no conjunto de rede que foi modernizado no atual sistema metropolitano, em que a dinâmica da estruturação urbana está comprometida na mobilidade, circularidade e principalmente pelos limites municipais que desempenham um papel ativamente linear pela complexidade da expansão urbana a partir do litoral. Conclui-se que a rede viária e seus padrões vetorizados são continuamente orientados para as condições ecológicas da atual organização socioestrutural. A cidade de Aracaju e sua Região Metropolitana são complementares em principais condicionantes do arranjo das vias urbanas e necessitam de uma (re) organização para o melhoramento do seu acesso e mobilidade implicando na sua extensão mais abrangente. Sugerem-se algumas soluções para o espaço urbanizado a partir de reformas necessárias e urgentes da rede viária metropolitana, visando fluidez e (re) distribuição de espaço e circulação.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T23:49:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Juliana Gomes Carnicelli1.pdf: 2418196 bytes, checksum: 9dabe525b2755f4fca78607900100391 (MD5) Juliana Gomes Carnicelli2.pdf: 1480629 bytes, checksum: 02222fcf20659b49eb1b7d1818242335 (MD5) Juliana Gomes Carnicelli3.pdf: 2388393 bytes, checksum: 6512d0030a81361716f94b35faba0100 (MD5) Juliana Gomes Carnicelli4.pdf: 537773 bytes, checksum: 566dfd0f20c3f01f1f473ae49f4e3db8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-17 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / Analysis of the tools from the environmental policy in place at the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, and from the urban policy of Itapecerica da Serra city; with emphasis in the Jardim Branca Flor s case. Debates of the occupation process of the Guarapiranga sub-basin and the Itapecerica da Serra city in the metropolitan context. Main laws which incur on the Guarapiranga sub-basin and on the Itapecerica da Serra city in the period from 1997 to 2006. Aspects which reflect on the creation of the articles of the environmental and urban laws in the Jardim Branca Flor s case, emphasizing the progress and the conflicts. Main conclusions establishing the borders and challenges to be overcome in the scope of one integrated management of this territory. / Análise dos instrumentos da política ambiental em curso na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo e da política urbana do município de Itapecerica da Serra com ênfase no caso do Jardim Branca Flor. Discussão do processo de ocupação da sub-bacia Guarapiranga e do Município de Itapecerica da Serra no contexto metropolitano. Principais legislações que incidem sobre a sub-bacia Guarapiranga e o Município de Itapecerica da Serra entre 1997 e 2006. Aspectos que refletem a articulação das legislações ambiental e urbana, no caso do Jardim Branca Flor destacando avanços e conflitos. Principais conclusões colocando os limites e desafios a serem vencidos no âmbito de uma gestão integrada deste território.

Orientador: Regina Célia Bega dos Santos / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T15:33:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bryan_Francisco_M.pdf: 4988537 bytes, checksum: 917b74f32ac7d24a27f6f89e66ae390a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por objetivo realizar uma análise do da mobilidade urbana da cidade de Campinas - SP sob o ponto de vista de seu processo de urbanização e seu sistema de circulação. Com este fim, será estudado a estrutura atual do sistema de transporte público e como este se relaciona com o processo temporal de crescimento e desenvolvimento urbano. Composto por diversos períodos significativos (que são abordados de maneira distinta entre os estudiosos do assunto), tal processo será objeto de reflexão crítica utilizando como método a análise geográfica de circulação. Pretende-se debater o processo de crescimento e estruturação da área urbana do ponto de vista da Geografia com relação aos sistemas de circulação urbana, de modo a compreender melhor a dinâmica da questão do transporte público na cidade. Para tanto, é necessário compreender como se deu e como se dá a distribuição espacial dos principais eixos de circulação utilizados pela população a partir do transporte público a fim de subsidiar propostas para a melhoria de sua circulação pelo espaço urbano, considerando principalmente as pessoas que mais necessitam deste transporte, e, portanto, de políticas públicas que priorizem esta parcela da população. O objetivo do trabalho, portanto, é discutir o espaço do cidadão à mobilidade, sob condições minimamente aceitáveis de segurança através de uma ênfase maior nas propostas de ampliação permanente da infra-estrutura das cidades como um todo, e não apenas do transporte rodoviário, ao invés de analisar as causas dos problemas existentes, considerando esses deslocamentos como sendo meras rotas de ida e volta do local de trabalho. A principal alternativa para isso é levar em conta todas as formas de circulação no espaço; a pé, de bicicleta, carro, ônibus, trem e metrô. Todos devem ter condições para realizar suas atividades, e, portanto, a estrutura viária deve considerar todos os meios de transporte apontados acima. O enfoque aqui pretendido contempla a visão do uso social do espaço urbano sobre o tema estudado, considerando algumas regras técnicas utilizadas pelo enfoque tradicional, destacando-se a análise do espaço urbano onde estes deslocamentos são mensurados tecnicamente e utilizado por pessoas cujas relações sociais, políticas e econômicas são complexas e ocorrem ao mesmo tempo / Abstract: The goal of this dissertation is to analyze urban mobility in Campinas-SP through its urbanization process and circulation system development. Therefore, this work aims to study Campinas' public transit system structure nowadays and how it reflects the urban development process through time. Split into several significant periods (which are approached through different viewpoints by scholars), such process will be object of critical reflection using as method the geographical analysis of circulation. Towards a better comprehension of public transport dynamics in Campinas, we intend to discuss the relationship between urban growth and development process and urban circulation systems. Therefore, it is necessary to understand how spatial distribution of the circulation axes most used by public transport users was developed through time in order to contribute on designing improvement proposals to these users' circulation in the city. Such proposals should always consider first the users that rely most on public transport as much as the public policy framework focused on these users. This work also aims to debate the appropriation of urban spaces in order to guarantee all citizen mobility under minimum standards of safety through greater emphasis on proposals for perennial enhancement of urban infrastructure in cities as a whole - not focusing only on road transport - instead of only dealing with existing problems and their causes, an approach that usually demotes user displacements to simple commuting issues. The main alternative here is to consider all modes of transportation to get around in urban spaces: by foot, by bike, by car, by bus, by train, by subway, etc. Everyone should be able to carry out their activities; hence, transit structure should consider every one of these different modes. Our focus here is a social approach (instead of pure technical approach) towards the analysis of spatial use in cities regarding the main issues dealt with in this study, even though some of the technical rules used by traditional approaches are taken here into consideration, such as urban spatial analysis in which these displacements are technically measured. But it should never be taken for granted the fact that urban spaces are stages for complex social/political/economical relations / Mestrado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Mestre em Geografia

Challenging a long-held attachment to the medical model, this research develops a cultural model placing local governments at the center of policy making and refocusing policy attention on mobility, housing, the built environment and services. To examine the phenomenon of age friendly policy adoption by cities and the magnitude of adoption, a 21-question web-based survey was administered to a sample of 1,050 cities from the U.S. Census having a population over 10,000 and having at least 14% of their population aged 65 years and over. The goal of the questionnaire was to help identify what kind of policy objectives cities establish to facilitate the opportunity for older adults to live healthy and independent lives in their communities as they age. Multiple linear and ordinal regression models examined the likelihood of policy action by cities and provide evidence as to why some cities support more age friendly policy actions than others. Evidence illustrates theoretical advancement providing support for a cultural model of aging. The cultural model includes multiple factors including bureaucratic responsiveness reflected in the management values of the administration. Findings show variation in the integration of a cultural awareness of aging in the municipality's needs assessment, strategic goals, citizen engagement strategies, and budgetary principles. Cities with a cultural awareness of aging are more likely to adopt age friendly policies. Findings also provide support for the argument that the public administrator is not the driving sole factor in decision making. A shared spaced with mobilized citizen need of individuals 65 and over is identified.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Performing arts centers have been touted as a strategy for revitalizing downtowns by increasing activities that bring in residents with higher incomes, tourists, arts employees, educated workers, and housing. Despite their popularity, civic leaders have encountered complexity in these projects, from financial challenges, to delayed openings and operating deficits. Previous downtown studies examine public facilities, such as stadiums and cultural institutions, through essays, surveys, case studies, or by quantifying transactions exchanged between the public and the facility. This dissertation focuses solely on performing arts centers, excluding all other forms of public facilities and cultural venues, by examining self-collected data on literature-based characteristics of 218 downtowns with and without performing arts centers, all over a seven-year period of time. It was hypothesized that the presence of a performing arts center would contribute to increases in the values of all downtown revitalization characteristics, and community characteristics, as well as organizational attributes of the performing arts center itself (age, size, and revenue types) would in turn, increase the values of the overall health of the performing arts center. Through the use of multiple linear regressions, this research shows that performing arts centers can play a role in revitalizing downtowns. This research also shows that a single characteristic is not solely responsible for revitalizing downtowns; rather, the increased vitality results from a confluence of the characteristics. Endogeneity tests show that a performing arts center is less likely to enter a deserted downtown bereft of vitality. Instead, performing arts centers serve as harbingers of revitalization, confirming the presence of downtown vitality, before they proceed to activate vitality further. Finally, through the use of binary logistic regressions, community characteristics are identified in order to determine the conditions of downtowns that would be most equipped to open a performing arts center, as compared with downtowns that could not.

This dissertation investigates the effects of natural disasters and political institutions on municipalities' climate change policies. Although most theoretical frameworks on policy adoption highlight the roles of extreme events as exogenous factors influencing policy change, most studies tend to focus on the effects of extreme events on policy change at the national level. Additionally, the existing theoretical frameworks explaining local policy adoption and public service provision do not pay attention to the roles of extreme events in local governments' policy choices. To fill those gaps, this dissertation explores the roles of natural disasters and political institutions on municipal governments' climate change policies. It does this by applying the theory of focusing events to local climate mitigation and adaptation actions. Based on the policy change framework, the political market model, and the institutional collective action frameworks, this dissertation develops and tests hypotheses to examine the effects of natural disasters and political institutions on municipalities' climate mitigation and adaptation policies. The dissertation uses 2010 National League of Cities (NLC) sustainability surveys and the 2010 International City/County Management Association (ICMA) sustainability survey to test the hypotheses. Analytical results show that floods and droughts influence local climate change policies and suggest that local governments can take advantage of extreme events when initiating a policy change. The results also suggest that political institutions can shape the effects of natural disasters on municipalities' climate mitigation and adaptation actions.

La thèse porte sur la patrimonialisation de l’urbain à partir des dispositifs censés encadrer le devenir du patrimoine dans les villes et qui se confronte aux logiques de développement urbain. La posture situe la patrimonialisation de l'urbain dans un processus historique. Initialement centrée sur les monuments, identifiés pour leurs valeurs, la patrimonialisation a englobé les contextes pour ensuite considérer les ensembles comme des patrimoines. La patrimonialisation des ensembles urbains doit prendre en compte les multiples dimensions et acteurs impliqués dans la gestion des villes. Ces évolutions nécessitent la conciliation entre la préservation du patrimoine et le développement urbain. Comment, dès lors, penser concrètement une patrimonialisation, spécifique à l’urbain ?L’étude se fonde sur une reconstruction des programmes de projets dans l’intramuros d’Avignon (France) à partir du croisement de données recueillies dans les documents consignés dans les archives municipales (couvrant la période de 1957-2004) avec des données issues d’entretiens avec des acteurs impliqués (entretiens semi-directifs avec 14 personnes ressources). Ainsi, les sources (orales) de première main permettent d’éclaircir et de compléter les sources écrites (archives). En observant les expérimentations entreprises à Avignon, depuis la Loi Malraux en 1964, nous mesurons la construction sociohistorique des pratiques locales qui se sont structurées autour de la préservation du patrimoine en rapport aux orientations nationales et les difficultés d’une prise en compte de la ville historique dans l'évolution urbaine de la ville d’Avignon.La recherche se concentre sur trois (3) moments : les années 1960, 1970 et 1980. Le premier illustre une prise de conscience de l’urgence de préserver les quartiers historiques par la mise en place des secteurs sauvegardés. Ce dernier reste imprégné par la conservation des monuments comme des objets isolés sans arriver à prendre en charge les ensembles. Le deuxième ancre la préservation des ensembles dans les efforts de développement urbain à travers la mise en place des Contrats Ville-Moyenne sous la supervision de l’État. Enfin, le troisième s’affranchit du contrôle de l’État en instaurant des Zones d’Aménagements différées adossées sur des projets issus d’études insistant sur la dimension patrimoniale. L’analyse de ces trois moments consiste à repérer les orientations prises en faveur, ou non, du patrimoine et à rendre compte des contextes et des acteurs impliqués dans ces prises de décisions. En nous référant à des travaux en sciences humaines (sociologie, géographie, anthropologie) et concernant spécifiquement le patrimoine (Amougou, Davallon, Gravari-Barbas, Rautenberg, Veschambres…), nous avons démontré que les orientations qui compromettent la préservation du patrimoine viennent de l’absence de lien entre trois (3) niveaux, repérés lors de l’analyse : la trouvaille du patrimoine, la mise en politique du patrimoine et l’action urbaine. Pour dépasser ces manques de liens entre les trois, la thèse propose un outil pour penser la patrimonialisation de l’urbain, qui réunit et met en relation les conditions de réussite de la patrimonialisation d’un ensemble urbain historique.La recherche doctorale a ainsi permis de produire des connaissances à visée opérationnelle, en plus d’ouvrir plusieurs pistes qu’il serait pertinent d’approfondir. Sur le plan méthodologique, le repérage des mesures prises en faveur ou contre le patrimoine nécessiterait, compte tenu de la complexité du problème tel que posé, une analyse transversale plus approfondie pour définir des indices en faveur de la préservation ou bien de la détérioration. Dans ce sens, les résultats dégagés à partir du cas d’Avignon gagneraient à être confrontés à d’autres terrains. Par ailleurs, l’arrimage de ce travail aux derniers développements en matière de conservation urbaine portés à l'échelle internationale, par ICOMOS et par l’UNESCO, paraît porteur / The preservation of historic cities requires on behalf of the actors committed to the urban development of the urban historic ensemble (EUH) additional efforts to extend their actions beyond isolated buildings. In practice, when developing historic urban ensembles, the conservation of the urban heritage seems to be relegated to an external if compulsory constraint which has to be overcome. This situation often results in the opposition of two aims: development versus conservatory.The question of how can the conservation of urban heritage be better considered is debated on international, national and local scales. By joining this current debate, our thesis aims to answer the following question: how can we improve the management of the imperatives behind urban development in historic cities, when tied to patrimonial obligation towards urban ensembles?The literature review helped us show that the notion of urban heritage, which justifies the urban preservation, was born in the minds of planners confronted with urban development, linking the notion of the urban heritage more closely to that of development than to conservation. In the absence of one that would move towards urban heritage preservation and confronted with the dominant if opposite postures, we realized, based on the literature review, that the opposition shared anchoring elements: the preservation paradigm of actions, centered on buildings and unsuitable in the case of ensembles, this paradigm supported by divergent institutional cultures and strengthened by an opposition between the modes of local implication.Considering the well-known difficulties and the contributions of the literature review, which clarifies the nature of the opposition between heritage conservation and development, how can the preservation of historic urban ensembles be thought differently? To answer that question, we propose reflecting on urban preservation as integrated to urban development.On the methodological level, the nature of the opposition between development and conservation sends us back to the analysis of what takes place on the field. We chose to look at the historic center of Avignon, where various actors have attempted to exceed this opposition. Avignon, as a mid-sized city of the South of France, is endowed with one of France’s biggest protected areas which cover the entire historic center. The history of the actions carried out in the intramural brings out archetypical situations which illustrate the opposition between development and conservation. The case study allowsus to intellectualise the mobilization of urban heritage on 3 levels: Institutional, Find and Urban action. Each of these levels distinguishes itself by the nature of the mobilization and by the point at which are made manifest the mobilization of the material and symbolic dimensions of urban heritage. Starting with the case study, we have conceptualised a model which goes beyond a restricted reading focused on the opposition to think out urban development within the context of urban conservation. The model brings into the urban development the notion of urban heritage designation as a succession of actions which qualify urban historic ensemble as heritage and preserve them. On the scientific level, the model mobilizes notions, borrowed from sociological, communicational, ethnological and geographical approaches of heritage designation. It proposes a new analytical framework for thinking about the actors involved in the urbanistic management of the historic urban ensembles, so as to exceed the oppositions and guarantee a sustainable creation of urban heritage which does not constitute an obstacle for the imperatives of development. The model helps us see the roles at stake and organizes the various actions undertaken by the various actors in favour of both heritage and development to come up with an integrated urban heritage designation