This article is a general introduction to the special issue of the ASRDLF symposium held in Martinique in 2011. It attempts to explain the reasons why a strong attention is being paid to migrations while international or long distance migrations are a profound and permanent reality. Wars,...

Urban crisis is regularly on the topic, in particular in social spheres but also in fields of planning and town planning. A lot of questions concern the dissolution, the disappearance of urbanity, the towns? loss of meaning and identity and conglomerations where the kinds of development tend to...

The paper describes fifty years of research activities in regional science of the Southwestern Regional Economics Institute (IERSO, Bordeaux University), first regional economics institute founded in France by Joseph LAJUGIE in 1951. Section 1 underlines the specificities of the approach in...

The metropolitanization process leads to an increasing search for metropolitan centrality and yet it is often tied to a crisis of centers. This contradiction leads to an increasing disjunction between center and centrality whose patterns are analyzed as well in terms of evolving urban forms as...