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Keynote articles
The City Factory provides a forum for urban players and thinkers. The forum is designed to encourage discussion and provide food for thought with respect to our changing cities and future development.
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Appraising the City
by Christophe GOBIN
08 December 2010Half of the world’s population lives in cities. In Europe, that proportion rises to 80%. Consequently, the need to review our understanding of cities – how they function and how they perform from economic and environmental standpoints – has become a matter of extreme urgency. To achieve this objective, we need to analyze the lifecycle of urban centres, from the extraction of required raw materials to the processing and recycling of waste products. find out more
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The future and attractiveness of cities
by Julien DAMON
31 May 2010Julien Darmon, Associate professor at Sciences Po, resituates the attractiveness of cities - the City Factory's theme of study in 2010 - in its overall context. His arguments point to four main avenues for research: global demographic change, analysis of trends, the ranking of Western cities and the very concept of attractiveness. ... find out more
- related theme :
- Digital city
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Let's try to explain the congestion charging
by Vincent PIRON
09 February 2010We should look beyond appearances: congestion charging is not intended to be a new "tax". Its legitimacy rests on the socio-economic benefits, environmental particularly, that it brings the community. The economic benefits can be easily measured by the trade-off between "public utility" and operating costs. The social aspect is more complex: it... find out more
- related theme :
- Transportation infrastructure
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All ou need to know about Pirandello
by Vincent PIRON
09 November 2009Pirandello is an urban model that can predict the impact of a given decision (establishment of a shopping centre, construction of a new road artery, closing a city centre to traffic, etc.) on the shape of a city. Based on the principle that our choices of location are rational (a series of individual decisions contributing to a collective... find out more
- related theme :
- Transportation infrastructure
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Establishment of the chair in the eco-design
by Chaire Ecoconception
18 November 2008VINCI and ParisTech established a Chair in the eco-design of building complexes and infrastructure. As a prelude to that event, a conference on eco-neighbourhoods was held. find out more
- related themes :
- Digital city
- Zero impact
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Which sustainable mobility ?
by Shirley IBARRA
11 July 2008Sustainability is the buzzword in debates concerning the environment and planning. The great majority of governments have factored sustainability into their transport policies. But the concept of sustainable mobility covers very different realities depending on the context and the speaker. Shirley Ibarra, member of Reason Foundation, offers us... find out more
- related themes :
- Mobility services
- Zero impact
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Transport, Urbanism and Congestion Charge: "Can we put a figure on political acceptability?"
by Vincent PIRON
01 July 2007In this contribution, Vincent Piron explores ways of supplementing the qualitative approach with a quantitative analysis that allows decision-makers to measure political discontent in respect of introduction of tolls. A possible answer lies in establishing the concept of "resentment", which attempts to quantify the loss of value felt by a person... find out more
- related themes :
- Public policy
- Transportation infrastructure
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Practical application of the notion of bitterness
by Vincent PIRON
01 July 2001This article supplements the reflections of Claude Abraham, who defined the terms of comparison between different behavioural laws and developed, in an economic framework, the concept of "resentment" as defined in the seminar organised by the Great Lyon Urban Community and the LET sigle pour ? around the Lyon northern toll bypass. It also... find out more
- related theme :
- Society
