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The storytelling of “smart cities”

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Across cities in crisis #4: with Carlo Ratti in Boston

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Deconfinement: a life-size test for the smart city?

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2020 New Year’s reception – Will the city of tomorrow be shaped by Google?

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The political and technological challenges of future mobilities

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

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Innovating in a constrained territory: perspectives on Singapore and Helsinki with Alistair Sim and Rikhard Manninen

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Singapore, a city-state “compelled to power”: Étienne Achille’s viewpoint

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

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Smart city and surveillance measures : a conversation with Myrtille Picaud and Régis Chatellier

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

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

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

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The liveable city, a tool for the shaping of urban imagination : dialogue between Limin Hee and Antoine Picon

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Nature in cities: a conversation with Philippe Clergeau, Lim Liang Jim and Michèle Larüe Charlus

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The cyborg city, an all-encompassing urbanity?

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Psychoanalysis of the smart city

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Embracing complexity: how Singapore became Singapore

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Cities in the race for quality of life: between local area marketing and a new approach for urban policy

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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: what role does big data play in cities?

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Thomas Madreiter: Vienna and the smart city

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Does the ideal city exist? In conversation with Antoine Picon, Ariella Masboungi and Michel Eltchaninoff

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

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

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

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The end (of the end) of traffic congestion

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

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Improving our understanding of traffic to improve our response: “It’s the economy, stupid!”

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When digital makes traffic worse, or the paradoxes of modernity

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Large infrastructure projects head to head with 21st century democracy: pride, prejudice, sense and sensibility

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Retail in the city: when proximity sells

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Network together: How metropolises could reinvent attractiveness

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Digital’s Promise to Reduce Traffic Congestion

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Google and the City: back to (urban) basics?

Protestation against Uber
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When London tries to urbanize Uber

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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Rabelais

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Still stuck in traffic, but at least connected!

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What digital technology says about the complexity of the city

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.

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