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Events of Factory
Every year, The City Factory organizes a seminar on a specific theme that brings together some sixty people (including academics, elected officials, functionaries, business leaders, representative members of civil society, and VINCI Group executives) to discuss and share viewpoints on a set subject. This seminar, which has an international scope, is held in a European capital.
The City Factory also organizes regional seminars (Paris, Lyon, and other localities) on global urban issues from a local perspective.
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What is it that drives public action on urban mobility issues?
26th-27th March 2012 - Paris
26 March 2012The City Factory and the City on the Move Institute are organizing, in partnership, a colloquium about public action issues regarding mobility. The event will take place on March 26th and 27th at La Bellevilloise in Paris. This two-day conference will bring together all the teams from around the world who contributed to the research and... find out more
- related themes :
- Mobility services
- Public policy
- Transportation infrastructure
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Looking for legacy: the sustainable impact of major sports infrastructure
25th january 2012 - London
25 January 2012London, 25th January 2012 What impact can major sports infrastructure have on their surroundings? That is the question that The City Factory explored at its seminar, “Looking for Legacy: for a sustainable impact of major sports infrastructure,” held in London on January 25, 2012. Five presentations were made at the seminar, raising key... find out more
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The reversible city?
Study by students (ENPC) - Thursday 15 december 2011
15 December 2011Study on “The reversible city?” by students in the regional and urban planning graduate program at ENPC (École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) in partnership with The City Factory. find out more
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New technologies designed to serve mobility or vice versa ?
Thursday, November 24 - Nice
24 October 2011Growing urbanization brings about considerable challenges. To meet these challenges while enhancing quality of life for urban residents, the city as we know it today must undergo a true revolution. This revolution depends massively on information and communication technologies. The City Factory has considered new technologies designed to serve... find out more
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Which governance for public spaces in the city of the future ?
Friday, September 30 - IUG Grenoble
30 September 2011The seminar organized by La Fabrique de la Cité in May 2011, in Barcelona, made it possible to progress on the issue of public spaces in the city of the future. A study was led under the scientific supervision of Marcus Zepf, an engineer-architect and a professor who runs the Urban Institute of Grenoble (IUG). This study aims at presenting... find out more
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France’s "Plan Bâtiment Grenelle", from discussion to action: what role should urban builders play?
Tuesday July 12th 2011, Paris
12 July 2011The City Factory is organizing a breakfast meeting to foster discussion on amendments to the urban-development code with respect to buildings. Philippe Pelletier, a lawyer specializing in property and real estate law and Chairman of the “Plan Bâtiment Grenelle” Strategic Committee, will speak at the breakfast meeting, which will be held on July 12... find out more
- related themes :
- City planning
- Public policy
- Society
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Students share their visions and utopias on mobilities and cities of the future
Thursday May 26th 2011, Barcelona
26 May 2011The first student meeting on the issue of mobility and the future of cities was held on May 25, 2011 at Barcelona’s Tech School of Architecture of the Vallès (University of Catalonia). The City Factory, in partnership with Institut pour la ville en mouvement (City on the Move) and Université Paris-Est, is preparing an international colloquium (... find out more
- related themes :
- Architecture
- Innovation
- Mobility services
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Breakfast on the financement of the cities' green growth
Thursday May 12th 2011, Paris
12 May 2011As part of a study on the funding of green urban development and in partnership with the OECD, the City Factory is hosting a work group session designed to identify appropriate funding instruments for green urban development. On May 12, 2011, Dominique Bureau, General Delegate of the Economic Council for Sustainable Development and... find out more
- related themes :
- City planning
- Innovation
- Society
- Zero impact
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What is the place for public spaces in our cities?
The 4, 5 and 6 of may 2011, in Barcelona (Spain)
04 May 2011Public spaces are open spaces shared by the community as a whole. Public spaces are open to all without discrimination. It is shared spaces, sites for meeting, and places where people can come and go freely.Public spaces are often viewed as empty or residual spaces – areas left over between building, open to all forms of urban use. In fact, public... find out more
- related themes :
- City planning
- Innovation
- Public policy
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The city is alive
The 6,7 and 8 April 2010, in Hambourg
20 September 2010Demographic shocks, immigration, aging – can cities adapt to their changing populations? Or do population shifs define cities? The City Factory gathered in Hamburg from April 6 to 8, 2010 to discuss these subjects. find out more
- related themes :
- City planning
- Innovation
- Mobility services
- Society
