Metropolitics

The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models?

Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine — 2015-06-30T04:50:00Z

While the register of the model has complemented urban planning ever since the concept emerged, such models have gradually appeared to be less relevant. More recently, however, they have been making a comeback in debates between experts, professionals and researchers in the fields of urban planning and policy. In this series of articles, we aim not just to examine the latest ideas and knowledge that influence urban-planning practices, but also to reflect upon contemporary trends in the

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Is there a model for sustainable urban planning?

Claire Carriou & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine — 2014-11-27T05:50:00Z

Claire Carriou and Olivier Ratouis reconsider the theoretical sources of sustainable urban planning from the standpoint of the history of urban-planning doctrines. They show that the references in question are no longer constrained by the classic categories (“culturalism” and “progressivism”) established by Françoise Choay on the basis of textual analyses of planning and development treaties.
---- Series: The Renewed Relevance of Urban-Planning Models? Thinking about urban planning in terms

- Essays / urban planning, urban development, urban knowledge, doctrine, model, sustainable city, sustainable urban planning, treaties

Participation and housing policies: a century-old phenomenon

Marie-Hélène Bacqué & Claire Carriou & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-10-24T04:55:00Z

The recent renewed interest in participatory housing experiments is, in fact, linked to a much longer history that can be traced back to the late 19th century, when the first public policies in France to encourage the construction of low-cost housing were introduced. Metropolitics looks at how this multifaceted history has laid the foundations for today's projects.
---- Dossier: Mutual Housing In France, since the late 1980s and the last realisations in a set of participatory housing

- Debates / participation, housing, alternative housing, cooperative housing, self-build, experimentation

Mutual Housing

2012-10-17T04:50:00Z

Over the last decade in France and Europe, in a context where access to housing has become increasingly complex for low- and medium-income populations alike, we have seen a growing number of projects that offer new means of producing and managing housing. In this series of articles, Metropolitics reviews these innovative practices.
On the fringes of the two dominant traditional housing sectors – private housing and public/social housing – a whole host of initiatives have also developed, which

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The School of Urban Renewal: A New Ideological Mishmash?

Claire Carriou & Yankel Fijalkow — 2011-05-18T05:20:00Z

The Borloo Act of 2003 is said to have marked a major turning-point in French policy concerning so-called “critical” urban areas. That assertion is now challenged by a study on the École de la Rénovation Urbaine, which was set up two years later to train urban renewal project managers. The training provided by the “School of Urban Renewal” is more of an ideological composite, combining legacies of 1980s urban policy with a present-day approach to city management.
The Borloo Urban Renewal Act

- From the Field / urban policy, urban renewal