Debates

• The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express

  
  12 June, by Lara Belkind
  In the fragmented context of Paris’s metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and subsequent public process demonstrate that the Grand Paris Express project, a 

• Identity checks and the law

  
  24 April, by Nathalie Ferré & translated by Oliver Waine
  In France, the issue of identity checks is at the heart of the thorny debate on how to ensure better relations between the police and the public. Against a backdrop of discussions on whether to 

• When agriculture meets the city…

  
  10 April, by André Torre & Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine
  In this article, André Torre and Lise Bourdeau-Lepage consider the role of nature in the city through the prism of urban agriculture. They defend the idea that the future of this phenomenon is 

• Jobs and geography: can the “functional hypercentrality” of Paris be an asset for the surrounding region?

  
  20 February, by Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & Élisabeth Tovar & translated by Oliver Waine
  In a context of increasing competition among global cities, is it possible that Paris’s key asset is the spatial concentration of its strategic economic functions in the heart of the city? Lise 

• Do local councillors represent the people? A sociological portrait

  
  28 November 2012, by Michel Koebel & translated by Oliver Waine
  France’s 500,000 local councillors are regularly presented as the most popular elected officials and those closest to the French public. However, access to the positions of municipal councillor 

• Rent control: a miracle solution to the housing crisis?

  
  21 November 2012, by Jean Bosvieux & translated by Oliver Waine
  The sharp rise in housing costs in France since the end of the 1990s has generated much debate on the subject of rent control policy, abandoned in 1948 and reintroduced in 2012 by the newly elected 

• Participation and housing policies: a century-old phenomenon

  
  24 October 2012, by Marie-Hélène Bacqué & Claire Carriou & translated by Oliver Waine
  The recent renewed interest in participatory housing experiments is, in fact, linked to a much longer history that can be traced back to the late 19th century, when the first public policies in 

• Social housing in Europe: the end of an era?

  
  26 September 2012, by Noémie Houard & translated by Oliver Waine
  Although there is no single European model for social housing, there are nevertheless a number of common trends and features in most countries in Europe: delegation to local government, a new 

• The digital city: challenges for the future

  
  16 May 2012, by Serge Wachter & translated by Oliver Waine
  What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? Serge Wachter analyses the way in which new information and communication technologies (NICTs) influence not so much the 

• Organic school meals: what remains of the pioneer spirit?

  
  9 May 2012, by Leïla Kebir & translated by Oliver Waine
  The concept of “organic canteens” has proved remarkably successful, buoyed by the Grenelle de l’Environnement (the French government’s environment round table) and the model of alternative food 

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