Understanding changes in ways of thinking about cities and their territories

The texts in this section explore the notions, ideas, ideologies and issues that guide and have in the past guided urban policies. They provide elements to help the reader understand the birth of some of these notions and ideas, the changes they have undergone, the debates they inspire and how they are translated into action tools. So they address both current ‘emerging’ issues (resiliency, smart cities, downsizing, immaterial assets, territorial metabolism, industrial ecology, circular economy, territorial œconomy, shared territorial asset, service economy, local currency, etc.) and issues that were at the heart of urban thinking some time ago (ex: the right to the city, functional cities, etc.)

• What ideas underlie urban action?

• How do these ideas appear and evolve?

• How are the ways of thinking about cities and their development being discussed?

• What are the links, similarities and contradictions between the different ways of thinking about cities and their development?

19 dossiers

• Prendre en considération l’eau dans les projets urbains
• Acteurs, leviers, outils pour mener les transitions du système alimentaire
  • Zoom « Alimentation et collectivités territoriales »
• Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme de la Région Ile-de-France : Mettre en commun des études et des travaux nécessaires à la prise de décision
• Art, city and architecture
• Informal spaces
  • Informal urbanities
  • Partout, des espaces informels
• Territorial governance (Open and Massive Online Courses)
  • Management of change strategies on the territorial level
  • Territories and globalisation: The importance of international networks of cities and territories
  • International focus: Governance in Latin America
  • Panorama of territorial governance as a whole: Learn together to manage and transform a complex system
  • You said territory?
  • Tools for understanding and managing territorial ecosystems
  • The art of governance applied to territorial governance
  • Managing relationships between stakeholders territorially
  • Managing relationships between levels of governance and the active subsidiarity principle
  • From public service to governance regimes applicable to various goods and services
• 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
• Social geography of peri-urban areas
  • Social sciences’ definition of peri-urban and identification of its principal characteristics
• Urbanism notions through practice
• Que sont les projets devenus ?
• Economy of European cities: characteristics and challenges
• Energy efficiency around the world : on the road to transition
• Transportation infrastructures and territories : what connections?
• Urban mobility, individual behaviours and territories
• Mobility, transport policies and urban inclusion
• Debates on the notion of urban governance
• Land and real estate economics: evaluating land value and property value gains
• Struggling for urban inclusion
• What do we mean by service of general interest ?

2 notions

• Risque
• Approche interdisciplinaire des territoires