Understanding changes in the dynamics through which the city and its territories are constructed and transformed

Far from being set in stone, cities and their territories undergo numerous transformations. These changes are the result of dynamics produced by the interaction between actors, interests and resources. They have a material expression: they are visible in the transformation of the urban fabric, its expansion or shrinkage. They are economic, transforming the economic fabric. They are also social, with changes in populations’ living conditions and the resulting tensions or initiatives. Yet above and beyond their sectorial designation, these dynamics are the result of cities’ organisation and governance, and of elements catalysing their evolution.

• What economic, social, territorial and political dynamics are transforming cities? According to what modalities?

• What actors are participating in these dynamics?

• How are they changing cities and their territories?

33 dossiers

• École de Paris du Management : Valoriser les entreprenants au sein de leurs territoires
• 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
• Economie circulaire et innovation
  • Cadrage de l’économie circulaire
  • Mettre en oeuvre l’économie circulaire
  • Les conditions du succès de l’économie circulaire
• Complementary currencies, a new approach to territorial development. Which role for the communities?
• Informal spaces
  • Informal urbanities
  • Partout, des espaces informels
• Understand the housing crisis
• Defining and struggling for housing rights
• Social production of habitat
• Redeveloping the city on the city: controversies and forms of residential densification
  • Urban densification: background and issues
• Social geography of peri-urban areas
  • Social sciences’ definition of peri-urban and identification of its principal characteristics
  • INSEE’s definition of peri-urbain
  • 16,250 peri-urban municipalities around major urban centres
  • Peri-urbanisation is not urban sprawl
  • Relationship to the territory: between residential club and metropolis
  • Peri-urban practices
• Que sont les projets devenus ?
• Take Back the Land ! The Social Function of Land and Housing, Resistance and Alternatives
• Popular, precarious? - Overlapping perspectives on a predominant housing solution
• Faut-il liquider la voiture ?
• Economy of European cities: characteristics and challenges
  • Cities under the post-Fordist economy: what challenges?
  • European cities are not all alike from an economic standpoint
  • The « invisible » urban economy, the voiceless one.
  • European cities’ economy by 2040: what “possible futures”?
• Aperçus métropolitains
• Ground transport and climate change
• Post-oil landscapes?
• Transportation infrastructures and territories : what connections?
• Water management in South America
• Housing policies in Europe facing the crisis
• Mobility, transport policies and urban inclusion
• Land and real estate economics: evaluating land value and property value gains
• Land and property legislations - The plurality of private property rights and their interferences
• Land ownership, social structure and economical development
• Mediating between public authority and citizens : the need of a third party
• Urban planning legislation
• Public intervention to improve access to housing
• Housing for social integration
• Governing urban agglomerations
• One road for everyone
  • Towards a fairer sharing of roads and public spaces
  • Management of automobile-based mobility
  • Public transportation and freight transport
• Fighting social exclusion through social innovation on housing and social and professional integration
• Cities and sustainable development: experiences to be shared

3 notions

• Renouvellement, réhabilitation et rénovation de l’urbain
• Risque
• Approche interdisciplinaire des territoires