Cities act on climate, while nations delay

Back from Cahors

The Fabrique de la Cité organised the second edition of the Rencontres des villes moyennes (Medium-Sized Cities Meetings) in Cahors, from October 26 to 28. [...]

Aurillac: thriving in a constrained geography

On the 7th of September, Emmanuel Macron committed the State to the revitalisation of town centres by extending the Action Cœur de Ville plan until 2026 with an additional 350 million euros. A few days ago, the newspaper Le Monde[...]

The mid-sized cities at high speed

Last weekend, September 18th and 19th, France celebrated the 40th anniversary of the TGV. Inaugurated on September 22, 1982, the orange train ran at “only” 260km/h at the beginning, compared to 320km/h today. In ten years, from 1980 to[...]

Acting against climate change: “it’s politics, stupid”

In Chantilly on 8 and 9 July, more than 150 decision-makers from the public and business sectors, researchers and scientists, and representatives of civil society met to commit to building a low-carbon city for all. [...]

Financing a decarbonized mobility: making the economics work

There will be no decarbonization of our economies without decarbonization of mobility, especially of road mobility which accounts for the bulk of mobility-related CO2 emissions. However, the transformation of our mobility systems is not an[...]

Are we making cities inaccessible?