Understanding adaptation and innovation of action tools and professional practices

Action tools (tools used for planning, funding, contracting, etc.) and professional practices (methods, approaches, etc.) evolve to meet new challenges, constraints and changing issues. The texts in this section describe these changes and the reasons behind them, the actors involved and also the resistance and conflict that emerge in the face of change. Texts shed light on the following questions:

• How are action tools designed and transformed? Why are they transformed? What are the objectives of these changes? Whoinstigates them?

• What changes affect the role of professionals in urban production? How are professional practices transformed? Why?

• How are these changes perceived and received? What kinds of resistance or conflict do they inspire?

• Do the changes facilitate comprehension and transversal action, or do they, on the contrary, reinforce sectorial approaches?

• What resources are put in place to support these changes?

25 dossiers

• use (urban sustainability exchange): Sharing urban experiences of transition
• Issues, place, methods and challenges of capitalisation of the experience
• Prendre en considération l’eau dans les projets urbains
• Des territoires en transition : expériences et enseignements des « Écoutes territoriales »
• Acteurs, leviers, outils pour mener les transitions du système alimentaire
  • La question alimentaire à l’agenda des pouvoirs publics locaux : Pourquoi ? Quels défis ?
  • S’outiller : méthodes & outils pour initier une démarche de transition alimentaire
• École de Paris du Management : Valoriser les entreprenants au sein de leurs territoires
• Eurocities
• Territorial governance (Open and Massive Online Courses)
  • You said governance?
  • International focus: Governance in Latin America
  • Panorama of territorial governance as a whole: Learn together to manage and transform a complex system
  • Governance’s main leaps
  • The art of governance applied to territorial governance
• Redeveloping the city on the city: controversies and forms of residential densification
  • Urban densification: background and issues
  • Supposed tensions arising from actual densification processes
  • Issues related to urban densification
  • Supra-local densification policies in France and elsewhere
  • Local initiatives/practices in the field of urban densification: zooming in on the densification of residential fabric
• Smart cities
• Developing a sustainable territorial economy with Territorial hubs for economic cooperation (PTCE)
• Take Back the Land ! The Social Function of Land and Housing, Resistance and Alternatives
• Vulnerability and coexistence of modes of transportation
  • Civilising mobility: an important issue for sustainable cities
  • Accelerators of active mobility
  • From city centre to outlying areas: active mobility in the entire metropolitan area
  • Fields of investigation: forms of active mobility currently springing up
• Public consultation and citizen participation in France
• Water management in South America
• Urban mobility, individual behaviours and territories
• Land and real estate economics: evaluating land value and property value gains
• Land ownership, social structure and economical development
• Struggling for urban inclusion
• Governing urban agglomerations
• Agendas 21. A selection of experiences on urban Agendas 21
• Users’ expertise and professional expertise: a difficult pooling
• Citizen participation: requirements, critics and modalities
• Promoting dwellers' and users' participation
• One road for everyone
  • Public transportation and freight transport