How Cities Function Ecologically: The Importance of Urban Soils

2024-04-02T05:00:00Z

What do we know about the diversity of urban soils? Ecologists and soil scientists show that a detailed study of their properties is necessary for more ecologically minded urban planning and development.
The diversity of urban soils
Are you a regional planner or researcher? Urban planner, architect, gardener or soil scientist? The answer to this question will determine how you define and perceive the term “urban soil.” For some, it's any soil located in an urban area (Blanchart et al.

- From the Field / biodiversité, écologie urbaine, nature, écologie, environnement, sols

How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend

Stéphane Tonnelat & translated by Oliver Waine — 2023-04-28T05:00:00Z

Despite the cancellation in late 2019 of the EuropaCity project - a giant shopping mall and entertainment complex on the outskirts of Paris — the government's decision to build a new train station in the middle of farmland has brought opposition groups to occupy the land and form a new “zone to defend”: the ZAD of the Gonesse Triangle.
On Sunday, February 7, 2021, just under a hundred people—comprising members of the Collectif pour le Triangle de Gonesse (Collective for the Gonesse Triangle;

- Debates / Gonesse, écologie, Île-de-France, mobilisation, zone à défendre, urbanisation

Metropolitics

How Cities Function Ecologically: The Importance of Urban Soils

How the Gonesse Triangle Became a Zone to Defend