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Deconfinement: a life-size test for the smart city?
At a time when half of humanity is living in confinement and the world economy...
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Issue brief
Behind the words: Degrowth
The 2020 growth forecasts for the French economy have already been revised downwards: initially estimated... -
Op-Ed
A street named desire
A chilling and disturbing beauty: this is what these pictures of the most emblematic public... -
Issue brief
The yellow vest movement: a simple anti-metropolitan revolt or a symptom of a deeper crisis?
A divide between metropolitan France and periurban France? Developed by geographer Christophe Guilluy, the notion of... -
Issue briefDegrowth: a model for the future or a pipe dream?
What does “degrowth” mean? Degrowth is a “political, economic and social concept that challenges the idea... -
City portrait
Toronto: How far can the city go?
Toronto, the “accidental metropolis”? In the aftermath of its urban expedition to Toronto in September 2019,... -
Yearbook
The acceleration – Urban realities 2019
Mobility financing, the opposition to large infrastructure and urban planning project, smart cities, the effects... -
Video
The Quayside Project in Toronto: getting to the bottom of the data issue
Many Torontonians fear that Sidewalk Labs’s futuristic smart neighborhood project, filled to the brim with... -
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Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside Project: a new urban social contract?
What is Sidewalk Labs really trying to achieve with the Quayside project? How can the... -
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Toronto: Assets and Challenges of a Thriving Metropolis
How did Toronto, the “accidental metropolis”, become a world-class city? What are its comparative advantages... -
Expert viewpoint
The political and technological challenges of future mobilities
LFDLC : How do Singapore and Pittsburgh articulate policies and technological innovations? Lam Wee Shann: Singapore envisions a Smart... -
Expert viewpoint
Governing the city through/with digital data : The Big Disruption ? Conversation with Antoine Courmont
La Fabrique de la Cité : In your book, Gouverner la ville numérique, you marked 2008...
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La Fabrique de la Cité is a think tank dedicated to urban foresight, created by the VINCI group, its sponsor, in 2010. La Fabrique de la Cité acts as a forum where urban stakeholders, whether French or international, collaborate to bring forth new ways of building and rebuilding cities.
