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Op-Ed 13.08.2021

The smart city is dead, long live the climate-smart city!

This attempt to reconcile the city, digital technologies and the climate does not come from some digital giant or multinational trying to regain environmental virginity with oxymoronic slogans, but... from the United Nations.
Op-Ed 16.07.2021

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

This first University of the City of Tomorrow (UVD) was 24 hours during which they...
Op-Ed 07.07.2021

Beyond aesthetic controversies

Any discussion of beauty, particularly in architecture and urban planning, when it is not exclusively...
Video 25.06.2021

Financing a decarbonized mobility: making the economics work

On the occasion of Movin’On (June 1-4, 2021), the global summit on sustainable mobility, Cécile...
Op-Ed 11.06.2021

Mid-sized cities facing demographic aging

The latest note published by La Fabrique de la Cité examines the issues and challenges posed to mid-sized cities by their aging populations (in French)
Op-Ed 28.05.2021

Death and life of CBD

Will the debate on the future of offices and CBD replay the one initiated by Jane Jacobs in 1961 with the publication of her pamphlet "The Death and Life of great American Cities"?
Op-Ed 21.05.2021

Is e-commerce taking over cities?

Is e-commerce eroding city centres? Before the pandemic, this question was part of the broader...
Op-Ed 12.05.2021

Are we making cities inaccessible?

Nearly 400,000 people die prematurely each year due to excessive concentrations of air pollutants in...
Op-Ed 30.04.2021

Paving the way for the low-carbon city for all

On 8 and 9 July 2021, 150 French political, economic and community decision-makers and personalities...
Op-Ed 23.04.2021

Advocating for the warehouse

Haro on the warehouses?! On the benches of the National Assembly, where the first reading...
Op-Ed 16.04.2021

From publics spaces to public space

Public space is topical....
Op-Ed 09.04.2021

Building a fairer and healthier world

The theme of the 2021 World Health Day organized by the World Health Organisation (WHO)...

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