1. Publications
The acceleration - Urban realities 2019
Yearbook

The acceleration – Urban realities 2019

Read the document
The acceleration - Urban realities 2019
Yearbook

The acceleration – Urban realities 2019

Read the document

Mobility financing, the opposition to large infrastructure and  urban planning project, smart cities, the effects of metropolization on territories… these are the themes explored by La Fabrique de la Cité throughout 2019, and which it invites you to explore today in this second edition of its annual “yearbook”.

These other publications may also be of interest to you:

TGV in a station
Op-Ed

The mid-sized cities at high speed

Video

Financing a decarbonized mobility: making the economics work

Personnes âgées sur un banc / Old people in a park
Op-Ed

Mid-sized cities facing demographic aging

Ultra low emission zone
Op-Ed

Are we making cities inaccessible?

UVD
Actualité

Paving the way for a low-carbon city for all: the Palladio Foundation and La Fabrique de la Cité launch the “Université de la Ville de Demain”

OMS / WHO
Op-Ed

Building a fairer and healthier world

Camille Combe
Op-Ed

Paving the way for low-carbon mobility

Emmanuel Macron à la Convention citoyenne
Op-Ed

Is resilience useful?

Pete Buttigieg
Op-Ed

Having a Mayor’s view for USDOT

Op-Ed

When territories take the floor and propose a vision of the future of mobility

ZAD Triangle de Gonesse
Op-Ed

Infrastructure project seeks development project

Op-Ed

The fight against non-communicable diseases: an urban challenge?

Op-Ed

Let the Airbus of batteries take off

Pizzagate
Op-Ed

Major Projects and Democracy: A Guide for Action

Berges de
Op-Ed

Active and healthy cities?

Véhicule électrique / Electric véhicule
Op-Ed

Putting innovation back on the road to progress

Transport en commun vide
Op-Ed

Thinking about future mobility

Footing
Op-Ed

Sport and public spaces: a winning duo?

Op-Ed

Towards a renewed approach of urban logistics?

Op-Ed

How to build healthy, active cities

Op-Ed

A beautiful villa at the water’s edge…

Bangkok
Op-Ed

University of the City of Tomorrow – Is the low-carbon city for all possible?

Funding mobility in a post-carbon world - Report
Actualité

A new online tool highlighting 19 solutions for funding mobility in a post-carbon world

Voiture électrique en charge
Actualité

Funding mobility in a post-carbon world

Péage urbain à Singapour (Source : Camille Combe) / City toll in Singapore
Report

Funding mobility in a post-carbon world

Transports en commun
Op-Ed

Lowering carbon intensity and initiating economic recovery

Transport, Paris
Op-Ed

Putting mobility back on track

Passagers avec des masques dans le métro
Op-Ed

Sending out an SOS

Télétravail / Telecommuting
Issue brief

Behind the words: telecommuting

Routes vides
Issue brief

Behind the words: urban congestion

À travers les villes en crise - Carlos Cadena Gaitan à Medellin
Video

Across cities in crisis #8: with Carlos Cadena-Gaitán in Medellin

Issue brief

The yellow vest movement: a simple anti-metropolitan revolt or a symptom of a deeper crisis?

City portrait

Toronto: How far can the city go?

Urban resilience, La Fabrique de la Cite, WUF10 (Abu Dhabi)
Actualité

Resilience: an operational concept?

The acceleration, urban realities 2019
Actualité

Yearbook: The acceleration – Urban realities 2019

Chantal Bernier - Quayside (Toronto)
Video

The Quayside Project in Toronto: getting to the bottom of the data issue

Video - Le projet Quayside, un nouveau contrat social urbain ? / Quayside Project: a new urban social contract?
Video

Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside Project: a new urban social contract?

Expert viewpoint

The political and technological challenges of future mobilities

Expert viewpoint

Governing the city through/with digital data : The Big Disruption ? Conversation with Antoine Courmont

Expert viewpoint

Can digital technology provide new impetus for local democracy? Ornella Zaza’s point of view

Expert viewpoint

“The lack of consensus is an integral part of democracy”: Laurence Monnoyer-Smith’s point of view

Expert viewpoint

“We need greater articulation between thought and action, project content and procedure”: Lucile Schmid’s point of view

Expert viewpoint

What response can private stakeholders provide to the crisis of consensus? The point of view of Xavier Huillard, CEO of the VINCI Group

Video

The storytelling of “smart cities”

Actualité

Living in 20 years: which scenarios for the future of French territories?

Op-Ed

Airports in 2050: urban scale switches

Actualité

Inventing the future of urban highways

Actualité

What role can digital technology play in addressing mobility challenges?

Expert viewpoint

Coordinating mobility stakeholders: the AustriaTech platform – Interview with Martin Russ

Expert viewpoint

Reconciling urban development and health to combat health inequalities

Expert viewpoint

Zoé Vaillant: health inequalities are rooted in local areas

Expert viewpoint

Nature in the city, a factor of health and well-being: points of view from Lise Bourdeau-Lepage and Florence Marin-Poillot

Op-Ed

Is efficient mobility a guarantee of quality?

Expert viewpoint

Expert viewpoint: Is efficient mobility a guarantee of quality? Guillaume Malochet

Op-Ed

Paris: can densification rescue affordable housing?

Expert viewpoint

The failed referendum on the liberalisation of Rome’s public transportation company ATAC: an analysis by Giuseppe Bettoni

Expert viewpoint

Ecology: a catch-all term or a catalyst? A conversation with Lucile Schmid

Expert viewpoint

Protests against major urban and infrastructure projects: a conversation with Lucile Schmid and Giuseppe Bettoni

Congestion - Crédits : Alexander Popov
Report

The end (of the end) of traffic congestion

Op-Ed

Living with urban traffic congestion: when digital makes us love bottlenecks

La Fabrique de la Cité

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.

Learn more

Receveznotre newsletter

Stay up to date on our news and projects by subscribing to our monthly publication.

Registration validated! You will soon receive your first number

By subscribing to this newsletter, you read and accept our Privacy Policy