Gabrielle Leyden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8574382 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gabrielle Leyden |
| PRENOMES | Gabrielle |
| SOBRENOME | Leyden |
| ASSINATURA | LEYDEN G |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Expo ’58 and “the car as king”
Whereas it took more than forty years to complete the North-South railway junction, a scant three years was necessary to change the face of the city of Brussels completely and turn it into one of the European capitals with the highest levels of car ownership. Expo ’58 had a crucial role in accelerating this movement. After explaining the circumstances that led to the “car as king” attitude in Brussels, the author wonders about the difficulties of…
The institutional future of Brussels
A number of public policies – from the regional organisation of multilingual education to the development of multicultural activities, with consistent management of the various Community and regional powers in between – have a hard time fitting into Brussels’s current framework. The matter of reforming this framework, whether slightly or radically, is thus regularly brought up.Brussels Studies has chosen to ask the question of Brussels’s institut…
Offices and planning in Brussels, a half-century of missed opportunities
The relationship between offices and planning in Brussels could be summed up as a series of missed opportunities. Decisions were taken blow by blow, without truly taking account of what had been planned. This real estate game, which has been going on for half a century, has had sometimes obscure causes, often unspoken motives, but reasons that have always been logical for at least one of the four players involved in the overall misunderstanding, …
Economic Structure and Growth in the Brussels Metropolitan Area
The article opens with a study of developments in the Brussels Metropolitan economy over the past twenty years in terms of economic growth and local specialisation in production. It then reviews recent empirical studies of the link between local economic structure (in terms of production specialisation, sectoral diversity, and competition) and local economic growth in Belgium and the rest of Europe. The author deduces therefrom the recommendation…
The direct cost and geography of Brussels mass transport’s operating delays
Automobile traffic causes a decrease in the surface mass transport’s effectiveness in Brussels as in other cities. In economic terms, this corresponds to lower returns and productivity for the operator. This article documents economically – in terms of direct costs – and geographically how road traffic slows down the region’s urban buses and trams. Such a computation appears to be unprecedented, although it offers a different way to state the pro…
The (in)efficiency of trams and buses in Brussels
At a time when mobility in Brussels is becoming increasingly critical from the standpoints of the environment and efficiency, this article gives a detailed and exhaustive analysis of the geography of traffic conditions affecting the trams and buses of Brussels’ main mass transit network. The finely disaggregated data that we were able to obtain from the Brussels Interborough Transport Company (STIB/MIVB) enabled us to calculate and map three indi…
Commercial transactions and social relations between the Greeks and Turks of Brussels
This article examines how the extent to which Greeks and Turks “live together” in Brussels can be measured by means of commercial transactions. The question is knowing what the impact of monetary exchanges on the symbolic borders between these social groups is and how these exchanges have changed over time. Whereas the market interactions between Greeks and Turks in the years that followed their moving to Brussels were defined by the attitude of …
Brussels and culture
Observations The general context With globalisation economic development has gradually shifted from the production of industrial goods to investing in intangible goods and services (copyrights, patents, tourism, event creation, creation of images and brands, etc.), in which culture has a growing role. Culture in the broad sense is clearly becoming a factor of development and attractiveness in today’s competition between cities. Globalised cities …
Health and quality of life in Brussels
Observations Overall poorer health of Brussels’ younger generations The proportion of the Brussels-Capital Region’s population that does not consider itself to be in good health is higher than the national mean. The percentages for the various regions are 29.7% in Wallonia, 27.6% in the Brussels Region, and 22.2% in Flanders. If we take account of the population’s age structure, the situations in Wallonia and Brussels are even worse than the raw …
Brussels youth
Brussels is a city which is highly segmented on both the social as the cultural level. This diversity is also reflected among the youth. In this article we present the results of a survey undertaken among the last year students of the francophone schools of the city of Brussels. The survey, which focusses on life styles, racism and insecurity, confirms the multifaceted character of the Brussels youth. Important sources of diversity and division a…
Unemployment in Brussels
This study presents an analysis of developments in the qualitative flexibility of the Brussels-Capital Region’s labour market since the start of the 1990s. This form of flexibility was studied simultaneously (rather than alternatively) from the standpoints of the incidences of skill mismatches and job competition between workers with different levels of education ((vertical) job competition) or overeducation on the probability of exiting unemploy…
Public finances, financing and taxation in Brussels
Observations Revenue, expenditures, balances, and indebtedness Steadily rising regional expenditures Janssens et al. (2008) studied the trend of the Brussels-Capital Region’s (BCR’s) expenditures since 2001. It appears that the rate of growth of its expenditures was very high. The mean annual rate of growth for the period 2001‐2008 is 4.4% in real terms. The growth of primary expenditures was even more marked: +4.8% per year, on average, in real …
What is happening to Brussels’ inner-city neighbourhoods
The accessibility of housing to low-income households in downtown Brussels has become much more complicated over the last decade. At the same time, there have been many clear signs of renewed investment in these neighbourhoods. This article proposes an interpretation of these ongoing changes in Brussels in terms of gentrification. The analysis is rooted in particular in a study of migratory statistics, that is to say, who is leaving the Brussels …
What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
Isabelle Lacourt describes and analyses close up the socio-occupational integration (SOI) work done in several welfare offices (CPAS-OCMWs) in the Brussels-Capital Region. In so doing, she pays particular attention to the schemes that have been set up and the tools and methods that are specific to these offices. She starts by reviewing the history of these welfare offices within local administrations and points out the linkage with the “active we…
Urban popular place names past and present
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean/Sint-Jans-Molenbeek is a former village on the outskirts of Brussels that underwent a gradual process of urbanisation starting in 1800 that culminated in its becoming an integral part of the capital. In studying the names and nicknames that the residents give to the places where they live, this toponymic study shows us the borough’s life: urbanisation, industrialisation, economic decline, migrations, and changes in language u…
Urban popular place names past and present
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean/Sint-Jans-Molenbeek is a former village on the outskirts of Brussels that underwent a gradual process of urbanisation starting in 1800 that culminated in its becoming an integral part of the capital. In studying the names and nicknames that the residents give to the places where they live, this toponymic study shows us the borough’s life: urbanisation, industrialisation, economic decline, migrations, and changes in language u…
Expo ’58 and “the car as king”
Whereas it took more than forty years to complete the North-South railway junction, a scant three years was necessary to change the face of the city of Brussels completely and turn it into one of the European capitals with the highest levels of car ownership. Expo ’58 had a crucial role in accelerating this movement. After explaining the circumstances that led to the “car as king” attitude in Brussels, the author wonders about the difficulties of…
The institutional future of Brussels
A number of public policies – from the regional organisation of multilingual education to the development of multicultural activities, with consistent management of the various Community and regional powers in between – have a hard time fitting into Brussels’s current framework. The matter of reforming this framework, whether slightly or radically, is thus regularly brought up.Brussels Studies has chosen to ask the question of Brussels’s institut…
Offices and planning in Brussels, a half-century of missed opportunities
The relationship between offices and planning in Brussels could be summed up as a series of missed opportunities. Decisions were taken blow by blow, without truly taking account of what had been planned. This real estate game, which has been going on for half a century, has had sometimes obscure causes, often unspoken motives, but reasons that have always been logical for at least one of the four players involved in the overall misunderstanding, …
Economic Structure and Growth in the Brussels Metropolitan Area
The article opens with a study of developments in the Brussels Metropolitan economy over the past twenty years in terms of economic growth and local specialisation in production. It then reviews recent empirical studies of the link between local economic structure (in terms of production specialisation, sectoral diversity, and competition) and local economic growth in Belgium and the rest of Europe. The author deduces therefrom the recommendation…
The direct cost and geography of Brussels mass transport’s operating delays
Automobile traffic causes a decrease in the surface mass transport’s effectiveness in Brussels as in other cities. In economic terms, this corresponds to lower returns and productivity for the operator. This article documents economically – in terms of direct costs – and geographically how road traffic slows down the region’s urban buses and trams. Such a computation appears to be unprecedented, although it offers a different way to state the pro…
The (in)efficiency of trams and buses in Brussels
At a time when mobility in Brussels is becoming increasingly critical from the standpoints of the environment and efficiency, this article gives a detailed and exhaustive analysis of the geography of traffic conditions affecting the trams and buses of Brussels’ main mass transit network. The finely disaggregated data that we were able to obtain from the Brussels Interborough Transport Company (STIB/MIVB) enabled us to calculate and map three indi…
Commercial transactions and social relations between the Greeks and Turks of Brussels
This article examines how the extent to which Greeks and Turks “live together” in Brussels can be measured by means of commercial transactions. The question is knowing what the impact of monetary exchanges on the symbolic borders between these social groups is and how these exchanges have changed over time. Whereas the market interactions between Greeks and Turks in the years that followed their moving to Brussels were defined by the attitude of …
Brussels and culture
Observations The general context With globalisation economic development has gradually shifted from the production of industrial goods to investing in intangible goods and services (copyrights, patents, tourism, event creation, creation of images and brands, etc.), in which culture has a growing role. Culture in the broad sense is clearly becoming a factor of development and attractiveness in today’s competition between cities. Globalised cities …
Health and quality of life in Brussels
Observations Overall poorer health of Brussels’ younger generations The proportion of the Brussels-Capital Region’s population that does not consider itself to be in good health is higher than the national mean. The percentages for the various regions are 29.7% in Wallonia, 27.6% in the Brussels Region, and 22.2% in Flanders. If we take account of the population’s age structure, the situations in Wallonia and Brussels are even worse than the raw …
Brussels youth
Brussels is a city which is highly segmented on both the social as the cultural level. This diversity is also reflected among the youth. In this article we present the results of a survey undertaken among the last year students of the francophone schools of the city of Brussels. The survey, which focusses on life styles, racism and insecurity, confirms the multifaceted character of the Brussels youth. Important sources of diversity and division a…
Unemployment in Brussels
This study presents an analysis of developments in the qualitative flexibility of the Brussels-Capital Region’s labour market since the start of the 1990s. This form of flexibility was studied simultaneously (rather than alternatively) from the standpoints of the incidences of skill mismatches and job competition between workers with different levels of education ((vertical) job competition) or overeducation on the probability of exiting unemploy…
Public finances, financing and taxation in Brussels
Observations Revenue, expenditures, balances, and indebtedness Steadily rising regional expenditures Janssens et al. (2008) studied the trend of the Brussels-Capital Region’s (BCR’s) expenditures since 2001. It appears that the rate of growth of its expenditures was very high. The mean annual rate of growth for the period 2001‐2008 is 4.4% in real terms. The growth of primary expenditures was even more marked: +4.8% per year, on average, in real …
What is happening to Brussels’ inner-city neighbourhoods
The accessibility of housing to low-income households in downtown Brussels has become much more complicated over the last decade. At the same time, there have been many clear signs of renewed investment in these neighbourhoods. This article proposes an interpretation of these ongoing changes in Brussels in terms of gentrification. The analysis is rooted in particular in a study of migratory statistics, that is to say, who is leaving the Brussels …
What are your plans?” The socio-occupational integration of Brussels’ welfare offices’ clients
Isabelle Lacourt describes and analyses close up the socio-occupational integration (SOI) work done in several welfare offices (CPAS-OCMWs) in the Brussels-Capital Region. In so doing, she pays particular attention to the schemes that have been set up and the tools and methods that are specific to these offices. She starts by reviewing the history of these welfare offices within local administrations and points out the linkage with the “active we…
Urban popular place names past and present
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean/Sint-Jans-Molenbeek is a former village on the outskirts of Brussels that underwent a gradual process of urbanisation starting in 1800 that culminated in its becoming an integral part of the capital. In studying the names and nicknames that the residents give to the places where they live, this toponymic study shows us the borough’s life: urbanisation, industrialisation, economic decline, migrations, and changes in language u…
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