The role of proximities in improving territorial governance

Lise Bourdeau-Lepage & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-07-10T04:55:00Z

What can be done to improve territorial governance? André Torre and Jean-Eudes Beuret emphasise the role of proximity in this process, where conflict and negotiation are two sides of the same coin.
This work, through its 105 pages, proposes the broad lines of a method for managing and coordinating territories using a proximity-based approach (Gilly and Torre 2000; Pecqueur and Zimmermann 2004). The key idea is relatively simple and can be stated as follows: territories are subject to major

- Reviews / local governance, proximity, conflict, negotiation

The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express

Lara Belkind — 2013-06-12T04:55:00Z

In the fragmented context of Paris's metropolitan and regional politics, the Grand Pari(s) design consultation and subsequent public process demonstrate that the Grand Paris Express project, a major new orbital metro line, can become a form of emergent governance and negotiated planning.
Although the Grand Pari(s) design consultation can be interpreted as a strategy through which the state regained control of the metropolitan narrative, this does not signal a return to the centralized

- Debates / banlieue, Île-de-France, Grand Paris, participation, public transportation, Paris region, urban planning, governance, Paris, local governance, transport, metropolis, Greater Paris, consultation, negotiation, mass transit

Metropolitics

The role of proximities in improving territorial governance

The Negotiated Urbanism of Grand Paris Express