Bruno Gouyette is an urban planner who was recently head of Paris city council’s “Espace public, culture et pratiques partagées” (“Public space, culture and shared practices”) taskforce, the key aim of which was to reinforce the in-house expertise of city engineers, architects and administrators whose work is focused on public space. He now works for the municipality of Montreuil (in the inner eastern suburbs of Paris), where is in charge of public spaces and mobility, with responsibility for the various departments involved in managing and designing the town’s public spaces: street cleaning and refuse, highways, parks and gardens, and the research unit.