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

Self-managed housing at the Maison du Val

Alain His & Olivier Ratouis & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-12-12T17:54:38Z

Alain His, co-founder of the Maison du Val in Meudon, near Paris, talks to us about this self‑managed housing complex created at the end of the 1970s, the philosophy it espouses, what sets it apart from other forms of housing, and how community life there has evolved over the last three decades.
---- Series: Mutual Housing The Maison du Val, an apartment complex founded on the principles of self-managed housing, opened in Meudon (in the south-western suburbs of Paris) in 1980. It was

- Interviews / Paris region, housing, alternative housing, self-managed housing, group housing, Greater Paris, video, Featured

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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