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Colloquium "What is that drives public action on urban mobility issues ?"
03 April 2012 “The Making of Movement” provided an overview of concrete projects that feed both the controversy and debate around urban mobility issues in different metropolises in three parts of the world: China, Latin America and Europe.
This international research program, headed by the Institut pour la ville en mouvement (IVM, City on the Move Institute), with its China and Latin American chairs and La Fabrique de la Cité, has brought together, on March 26 and 27, almost 300 people: researchers, academics, city planners, contractors, transportation operators and students, around the question "What is it that drives (or not) public action on urban mobility issues?
Looking for legacy : for a sustainable impact of major sports infrastructure
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At a time when more and more major sports events are being planned (London 2012 Olympic Games, Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Russia, Euro 2016 in France, Rio 2016 Olympic Games, etc.), La Fabrique de la Cité/The City Factory decided to explore the potential impact of major new sports facilities on urban areas at its seminar, “Looking for Legacy: for a sustainable impact of major sports infrastructure” held in London on January 25, 2012.
Co-creating the digital city
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Some 75 percent of French people consider that digital sciences have made useful contributions to the transportation sector; however, one in three do not consider that digital technology is useful for the environment, agriculture or art. Those are the findings of a barometric survey presented by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) at the Metro’num forum, held in Bordeaux on December 8 and 9, 2011, on the theme, “Co-creating the digital city.”
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Public Action and urban mobility: the point of view of decision makers
03 April 2012As part of the international research program "La Fabrique du mouvement dans les métropoles mondiales" (The Making of Movement in International Cities), La Fabrique de la Cité attended the meeting of the four public action witnesses and participants. Eduardo Paes (Mayor of Rio de Janeiro), Clara Lopez Obregon (former mayor of Bogota), Jean-Paul Huchon (President of the Conseil Régional d'Île de France) and Roland Ries (Mayor of Strasbourg) answered the following question: What drives urban mobility? The opportunity to talk about their relationship with mobility through concrete projects.
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