Digest Notes

Successfully developing the station areas: toward a “TOD” strategy for Île-de-France?

Note rapide Territories-Mobility, #55

The search for a better city-transportation connection is not new, but local administrations and actors in the creation of the city often encounter obstacles to its implementation. The station neighborhoods are strategic places with regard to the service startup of the Grand ...

April 2024 Stéfan Bove, Benoît Cornut

Sustainable tourism: businesses propose concrete solutions

Note rapide Tourism, #54

Faced with the climate crisis and customers' new expectations, the evolution of tourism businesses toward more sober models, with low carbon emissions and savings in resources is a necessity. It can also be the source of new competitive advantages: how can their practices be ...

October 2022 Maxime Kayadjanian, Marion Tillet

The tools to better combat the feeling of insecurity on transportation in the Paris region

Note rapide Prevention-Security, #53

The transportation actors in the Paris region have focused on safety questions, notably to lessen the users' feeling of insecurity in these spaces, a particularly complex task. Identifying anxiety-provoking situations during travel for the inhabitants of the Paris region ...

October 2022 Antoine Vielcanet

Cosmetics-perfumery in Paris Region, a worldwide leader ecosystem faced with bitter competition

Note rapide Economy, #52

France is number one worldwide in the cosmetics-perfumery industry, and Paris Region (Ile-de-France) the site of its leaders. From international headquarters to research centers, the entire value chain is present in it. The dominant position of the region ecosystem is ...

October 2022 Valérie Constanty

Assessing the new challenges of China's metropolitanism: the case of Xi'an

Note rapide International, #51

China has adopted “ecological civilization” as a formal state policy, and a reform of the spatial planning system launched in 2018 was part of it. New guidelines are proposed to assess existing plans and challenges nationwide, and Xi'an developed with specific objectives and ...

February 2022 Shao Dan, Éric Huybrechts

"Green" and "greenish" jobs: essential skills for ecological transition

Note rapide Economy, #50

In Paris Region in 2018, 26,100 employees were involved in green occupations and 790,300 in greenish occupations. They are mainly blue-collar or executive roles rarely filled by women. Seven out of ten “green” occupations are located in Paris and the immediate suburbs. ...

February 2022 Carine Camors, Nicolas Cadéron, David Veal, Clotilde Sarron

The quantum ecosystem accelerates further in the Paris Region

Note rapide Economy, #49

Linked to the infinitely small, quantum technologies are expected to revolutionize large parts of our activities. They play a role in the independence of France, due to their capacity to grant a decisive advantage in the fields of communication, security, and computing ...

September 2021 Thierry Petit

Economic transformations in the Paris Region

Note rapide Economy, #48

The Paris Region is a major globally competitive economic area boasting undeniable assets that enhance both its performance and its attractiveness. It nonetheless faces a number of challenges requiring profound economic transformations that the COVID-19 crisis has thrown ...

September 2021 Vincent Gollain, Renaud Roger

Structuring and strengthening an ecosystem for biotherapies and bioproduction

Note rapide Economy, #47

Biotherapies comprise treatments derived from biological entities such as bacteria, viruses or animal cells that are genetically modified then cultured in mass in bioreactors. They, and their industrial production, called bioproduction, are key sectors for the future of the ...

September 2021 Valérie Constanty

Culture impacted to different degrees by the Covid-19 crisis in the Paris Region

Note rapide Economy, #46

In the Paris Region, about 310,000 people work in the sector of cultural activities and have therefore been potentially concerned by health restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Many cultural areas underwent a very heavy loss of activity during the strict lockdown in ...

July 2021 Carine Camors, Odile Soulard, Cécile le Fillâtre, Jean-Philippe Martin, Marina Ribeiro, Sandra Roger

Data centers: anticipating and planning digital storage

Note rapide Territories, #45

With the explosion of the digitalization of the economy and data exchanges, the health crisis has confirmed the growth of the spatial and environmental footprint of data centers in the Paris Region (Île-de-France), as everywhere in the world. Whereas local administrations ...

May 2021 Fanny Lopez, Maximilian Gawlik, Lisa Gaucher

Green roofs: an assessment of ecological benefits in the Paris region

Note rapide Biodiversity, #44

Between 2017 and 2019, the ARB IdF (Paris Region Biodiversity Agency) and its partners studied 36 green roofs in the Paris area in order to assess the benefits of these new urban ecosystems. Biodiversity, rainwater retention and cooling are examples of the ecosystem services ...

May 2021 Marc Barra, Hemminki Johan

How Covid-19 is forcing us to transform the economic model for The Paris Region

Note rapide Economy, #43

On 17 March 2020, in response to the coronavirus epidemic, the French government decided to place the population in lockdown. The economy of Paris Region, which comprises the city of Paris and seven départements, is highly globalised and internationally open. The Covid-19 ...

February 2021 Carine Camors

Private investment in rental housing: inspiring international examples?

Note rapide Society and Housing, #42

In the context of the current housing crisis in the Paris region, which has been worsened by the pandemic and its economic consequences, can private institutional investors contribute significantly to maintaining and producing rental housing stock? Analysis of four cases ...

February 2021 Emmanuel Trouillard, Violette Caubet, Daphnée Govers, Thomas Janvier, Léonie Yang, Pauline Dumontier

Recovering nitrogen and phosphorus from urine to improve ecological and food security

Noterapide Environment, #41

Nitrogen and phosphorus, which are vital to agriculture, currently depend to an alarming degree on massively imported fossil resources. Beyond its impacts on aquatic environments and the climate, this reality poses a huge unrecognised threat to the sustainability of our ...

December 2020 Manuel Pruvost-Bouvattier, Martial Vialleix, Aurélie Joveniaux, Fabien Esculier

Zero net land take: an unprecedented challenge

Note rapide ZNLT workshop, #40

Urban sprawl has been a growing concern in France for over fifty years. In response to its harmful social, economic and ecological effects, the government has recently set a zero net land take goal. Regions including Île-de-France (the Paris Region) are spearheading efforts ...

December 2020 Thomas Cormier, Nicolas Cornet

What is the role of mass transit in the Paris region given the health crisis?

Note rapide Mobility, #39

The number of passengers using public transport, especially mass transit rail networks, has fallen over a period of several months due to the Covid-19 health crisis. As efforts are made to restart the economy, support from public authorities and continued investment are more ...

November 2020 Dany Nguyen-Luong, Jérôme Bertrand

Conditions for a return to productive activity in metropolitan areas

Note Rapide Economy, #38

Re-industrialisation has been at the heart of EU and French economic strategy for the past decade or so. However productive activity, which also includes logistics and self-employed trades, is struggling to maintain its place in metropolitan areas and is being increasingly ...

September 2020 Thierry Petit, Nicolas Gillio

Managing tourist waste: eleven European cities providing inspiration for the Paris Region

Note rapide Waste, #37

The management of waste produced by tourists is a challenge for major European destinations, even though the health crisis and its consequences have temporarily pushed the issue into the background. In the framework of the European Urban Waste project, eleven cities have ...

September 2020 Maxime Kayadjanian, Javier López-Murcia, Michelle Perello, Gudrun Obersteiner, Lorenzo Bono, Erik Louw

Transforming public space with user-friendly objects

Note rapide Economy, #36

Public spaces contribute significantly to first impressions of a district or a town. As places that provide resources for getting one’s bearings, relaxing, having fun, eating and socialising, they help to make local areas more attractive. How can we bring user-friendly ...

September 2020 Pascale Leroi

Paris Region: profile of a global innovative tech hub

Note rapide Economy, #35

With thousands of startups, renowned research centers, and top 100 universities in the Shanghai ranking, the Paris Region has become one of the top 10 innovative region in the world. The French capital region offers opportunities, often unheard-of, to innovators of all ...

July 2020 Thomas Achtereekte

Low-tech solutions: innovations for local resilience

Note rapide Economy, #34

For several years, low-tech designs have been gaining traction. Many initiatives embody credible alternatives to purely technological solutions and form part of ecological transformation goals. These useful, frugal solutions suited to local contexts represent a formidable ...

June 2020 Cristina Lopez, Odile Soulard

Paris Region: at the cutting edge of biotechnologies and gene & cell therapies

Note rapide Economy, #33

Paris Region is a hub of scientific excellence and furthermore home to numerous competencies in the strategic sector of next-generation biological medicines. Public-private partnerships for biotherapy R&D benefit greatly from the presence of large biopharmaceutical groups in ...

March 2020 Valérie Constanty, Delphine Brajon

Boosting the potential of urban nightlife

Note rapide Economy, #32

The intensity of night activity in France’s capital region reflects the great vigour of its cultural, festive and leisure life. Indeed, night activities are practised as much by Parisians and inhabitants of the Paris Region as by tourists. However, the full potential of ...

February 2020 Chloé Bihan, Jeanne Gorisse, Frantz Steinbach, Carine Camors, Odile Soulard

Cultural and creative districts: levers for revitalising metropolitan areas

Note rapide Economy, #31

The worldwide proliferation of cultural and creative districts (CCDs) testifies to a strong aspiration of the metropolises to strengthen their influence and singularity by revitalizing these urban areas and ensuring their (re)development. These strategies are based on ...

January 2020 Maud Jacques

The healthcare industry in the Paris Region: a powerful sector facing strategic challenges

Note rapide Economy, #30

Healthcare players in the Paris Region benefit from a very favourable environment, featuring: internationally recognised scientific research; state-of-the-art hospitals; business incubators and institutional support. The number of R&D personnel has doubled in key sectors ...

November 2019 Valérie Constanty, Delphine Brajon

How “land use map” helps you understand your territory

Note rapide Planning, #29

In response to growing urbanisation and the pressure to preserve natural, agricultural and forest land, precise knowledge of land occupancy has become a universal need. L’Institut Paris Region has acquired particular expertise in this field with its MOS land use approach ...

November 2019 Muriel Adam, Thomas Cormier

Territorial well-being at the heart of experiential strategies

Note rapide Economy, #28

How to design towns and cities that leave a positive impression of well-being on visitors? The answer remains very complex, but also essential. It requires the involvement of numerous stakeholders and the use of a methodology that facilitates collaborative work. Approaches ...

September 2019 Wided Batat, Vincent Gollain

The Paris Region’s automotive industry on the way to the vehicle of the future

Note rapide Economy, #27

In the Paris Region, the automotive sector represents one French automotive industry job out of five and 17% of total industrial employment in the Paris area. Since 2008, this sector has undergone several major changes: a decrease in its workforce; a continued geographical ...

September 2019 Thierry Petit

Paris Region 2025: acceleration of economic transformations

Note rapide Economy, #26

Paris Region is a global city region playing a major role in the world’s economy. Paris Region includes the city of Paris and its seven surrounding counties, and has access to over 510 million European consumers within a two-hour flight. Recent benchmarking studies have put ...

August 2019 Laure Wassen

The Paris Region faced with the challenge of the circular economy

Note rapide Economy, #25

For local areas or territories, the development of the circular economy is less of an environmental challenge than an economic imperative and, more generally, a matter of resilience. This is particularly true in the case of the Paris Region (known as Île-de-France), a ...

May 2019 Thomas Hemmerdinger, Florian Lacombe, Cristina Lopez, Martial Vialleix

The ideal campus is being invented today

Note rapide Economy, #24

Digital technology has revolutionised access to knowledge, which is now widely disseminated. This could have induced a fear that the spaces known as “campuses” would become victims of planned obsolescence. However, campuses have succeeded in redefining their added value by ...

April 2019 Jessica Tessier, Odile Soulard

Reducing road congestion: the CREATE guidelines

Note rapide Mobility, #23

Transport and mobility topics lie at the heart of three issues fitted into current political agendas: air pollution, climate change and territorial inequalities. Car use and road congestion have been blamed for contributing to these negative effects. The European CREATE ...

April 2019 Peter Jones, Vanessa Holve, Laurie Pickup, Dany Nguyen-Luong, Jérémy Courel, Dominique Riou, Christine Morisceau

Urban agriculture at the heart of urban projects: diversity of forms and functions

Note rapide Environment, #22

Today, urban agriculture is present in all urban planning projects in core urban areas. However, it remains a changing, multifaceted and multifunctional reality that raises as many questions as it arouses interest. In this note, L'Institut Paris Region, the ARB îdF and ...

January 2019 Antoine Lagneau, Laure de Biasi, Christine Aubry, Anne-Cécile Daniel, Mélanie Collé

The collaborative economy: a rich store of innovations

Note rapide Economy, #21

Thanks to the development of digital networks and third places, millions of people can now share and mutualise their communication and help each other. This has favoured the emergence of the collaborative economy, a way of working, consuming and producing that has revealed ...

January 2019 Carine Camors, Cristina Lopez, Samuel Roumeau

How to enhance tourist attractiveness from the “client pathway” method?

Note rapide Economy, #20

Today, the flows of international visitors represent more than 1.3 billion people. The development paths of tourism in major destinations are differentiated by their strategies: the best-performing destinations base their tourist offerings on in-depth studies of their ...

November 2018 Marion Tillet, Laurent Queige

Mapping the cultural industries: the example of the Paris Region

Note rapide Economy, #19

For major metropolitan areas, culture is a strategic driving-force behind their development. In this regard, the Paris Region is particularly well endowed: it accounts for 45% of total national cultural employment and benefits from a very rich cultural ecosystem, which ...

October 2018 Céline Calvier, Aurélie Casarotti, Carine Camors, Odile Soulard

The drone sector in the Paris region: the emergence of a centre of excellence

Note rapide Economy, #18

In recent years, demand for civilian drones has exploded. Public and private sector stakeholders have been mobilising in France to take their shares of this high potential global market, which is at the intersection of several industries: aerospace, robotics, connected ...

September 2018 Valérie Constanty

The revival of community gardens in the Paris region

Note rapide Environment, #17

Community gardens, which greatly appeal to both private individuals and local authorities, have enjoyed a revival in recent decades. Indeed, they provide a response to today’s urban challenges: healthier eating, the creation of social links and sustainable development of ...

September 2018 Anne-Cécile Daniel, Christine Aubry, Laure de Biasi

The Paris Region economy in 2025: future transformations and action drivers

Note rapide Economy, #16

The Paris Region economy is at a turning point where current transitions require a rethinking of existing economic models and practices. Between now and 2025, the region will have to adapt to sweeping changes, primarily a reconfigured labour market, more eco-friendly ...

July 2018 Carine Dartiguepeyrou, Samuel Sauvage, Carine Camors

620,000 jobs in the Paris Region depend on foreign firms

Note rapide Economy, #15

With one salaried job out of six in the market sector, the Paris Region is the top French location for foreign business groups. Most of these are concentrated in the Hauts-de-Seine “département” (inner suburbs of Paris) and in the city of Paris itself. The main foreign ...

March 2018 Céline Calvier, Joseph Chevrot, Lynda Pichard, Mickaël Le Priol, Thierry Petit

The Paris Region office market in a new production cycle

Note rapide Economy, #14

The Paris Region office market has durably entered a new cycle, featuring an acceleration in the renewal of office stock and its concentration in neighborhoods with significant urban amenities. Driven by new uses, improved energy efficiency and the “Grand Paris Express” ...

February 2018 Renaud Roger

Developing the pop-up economy to make cities more friendly

Note rapide Economy, #13

Pop-up stores, food trucks, travelling vans, lightweight constructions, are more and more visible in the Paris Region landscape. They share certain features, namely diversified uses, contemporary design and use of digital technology as a visibility-enhancing and promotional ...

February 2018 Pascale Leroi, Antonin Michelet

Sustainable neighbourhoods: from exception to propagation

Note rapide Territories, #12

Since 2009, accreditation campaigns and calls for projects have played a role conferring impetus on the thinking around sustainable neighbourhoods, and are beginning to bear fruit. In the Paris Region, 67 neighbourhoods have been accredited, and some are already inhabited. ...

December 2017 Émilie Jarousseau

The booming development of third places in Paris Region

Note rapide Economy, #11

Third places have exploded in number since 2010, reflecting the Paris Region’s entrepreneurial drive and the changes taking place in work practices. These spaces also embody a fresh approach to centres of innovation, whose business model focuses on “doing”. […]  ...

December 2017 Carine Camors, Alexandre Blein

Temporary urbanism: planning differently

Note rapide Territories, #10

Temporary urbanism projects have been developed since the early 2010s in a more institutional, supervised and visible manner, particularly at the heart of the Paris region where land is expensive. What is the significance of this renewed city-making, ranging from systematic ...

October 2017 Cécile Diguet, Pauline Zeiger, Alexandra Cocquière

Governance of airport areas: the cases of Stockholm and Amsterdam

Note rapide Governance, #9

Airports, large cities’ international points of entry, are essential to the connectivity and proper functioning of these cities, now dominated by flows. Metropolisation is impelling their role to evolve, from simple transport infrastructure facilities into instruments of ...

October 2017 Tanguy Le Goff, Pauline Zeiger

Pittsburgh: from urban revitalisation to gentrification

Note rapide International #8

Today, after decades of industrial, economic and demographic decline, the city of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) is cited as an exemplary instance of successful urban revitalisation. This study of the city’s revitalisation has focused on the emblematic Lawrenceville neighbourhood ...

August 2017 O'hanna Jingand

Paris Region: the top French aerospace region

Note rapide Economy #7

The Paris region, the world birthplace of aeronautics, is still home to most national jobs in this industry. The region's specificity in this sector is the construction of complete sub-assemblies. For 10 years, this sector has been structuring and is now developing new ...

June 2017 Thierry Petit, Clémence Rouhaud

Dynamics of the Paris region economy

Note rapide Economy, #6

Thanks to dynamic networks, innovation, cultural creativity and human skills, the Paris region has a powerful, high-performing economy. However, in addition to managing the 2009 crisis, it has had to face the numerous challenges arising from deep transformations in its ...

May 2017 Pascale Leroi

Research and innovation in the Paris region: achieving global excellence

Note rapide Economy, #5

The Paris region is one of the world’s leading players in research and development (R&D). Yet, in spite of its internationally recognized scientific credentials, its influence varies depending on the discipline. Today, it must meet the challenge of better coordination ...

February 2017 Odile Soulard

Implementation of the Greater Paris Region master plan. 2014 report: monitoring methodology

Note rapide Planning, #4

The Great Paris Region master plan (SDRIF 2030) has been in operation since December 2013. In compliance with the commitment undertaken by the Regional Council, an assessment of its implementation will take place in 2019. The monitoring, already in effect, is an ...

August 2016 Édouard Massonneau

The Paris Region’s 2030 development master plan: a social blueprint to be shared

Note rapide Planning, #3

The Paris Region’s 2030 development master plan sets out the joint blueprint for the regional development transition to be conducted. A series of Note Rapide summarises the plan in order to highlight and share its founding values and main objectives […].

August 2016 Sandrine Barreiro

Metropolis of Rio de Janeiro: sustainable metropolitan planning and mobility

Note rapide International, #2

Rio de Janeiro is confronted with urban challenges characteristic of those faced by rapidly growing major cities. The large-scale projects implemented over the last ten years should support the development of the city, but metropolitan planning and development integrating ...

July 2016 Éric Huybrechts, Irène Behar, Iuli Nascimento

Hanoi in transition: the emergence of a metropolitan region

Note rapide International, #1

Hanoi has long remained a ‘sleeping beauty’. Today, to affirm the influence of its capital, the Vietnamese government broadens its regional area and has approved the revision of its regional plan on 6 May 2016. IAU îdF (the Paris Region Development and Urban Planning ...

May 2016 Laurent Perrin

The digital transformation of the Paris region’s economy

Note rapide Economy, no. 687

Digital technology is having a substantial impact on society and economic systems. It is transforming our daily lives as well as the organization of structures and their markets while also questioning how we should organise with a view to building the future. This radical ...

June 2015 Christelle Ayache, Johanna Castel, Stéphane Singier, Carine Camors, Odile Soulard, Daniel Thépin

Mission Bay in San Francisco, the new “digital health” hub

Note rapide Economy, no. 655

Mission Bay is the name of a major economic and urban project in downtown San Francisco. It combines the urban regeneration of extensive rail/port wasteland and the development of a biotech cluster around the new campus of the University of California in San Francisco ...

May 2014 Laurent Perrin, Odile Soulard

Portland, a virtuous urban and university ecosystem

Note rapide Economy, no. 653

Portland cultivates its difference in a wide variety of fields such as sustainable urban planning, sports industries and the outdoors. Its universities make an active contribution in this respect through their research and their real estate practices in synergy with ...

May 2014 Laurent Perrin, Odile Soulard

Global clusters and campuses: an international perspective

Note rapide Economy, no. 651

Since 2010, the IAU îdF has conducted international comparative studies into Science Cities. These practical foreign case studies are highly instructive and challenge received wisdom on the theory of clusters and the planning of campuses. The aim of this project is to gain a ...

April 2014 Odile Soulard

The diversity of creative jobs: the value of the Paris region

Note rapide Economy, no. 589

Representing 45% of jobs throughout the country, the creative industries constitute a strategic and emblematic sector for the Île-de-France and make a massive contribution to its international attraction. Its activities are organized around an atypical labour market and are ...

February 2012 Laure Omont, Carine Camors, Odile Soulard

Ground access to large European airports

Note rapide Mobiliy, no. 570

Thanks to extensive road transport connections, all major European airports provide public transport services that meet the demands of users to a greater or lesser extent. This is evident in the wide variations in public transport usage by air passengers. Meeting the ...

September 2011 Danièle Navarre

Creativity and economic development in the Paris region: a propitious synergy

Note rapide Economy, no. 533

The creative industries, a strategic and emblematic regional sector, are a driving force behind economic development and the attractiveness of the nation. Highly concentrated in urban centres, creative jobs have developed enormously over the last decade, meeting the ...

February 2011 Carine Camors, Odile Soulard

The challenge of urban cohesion in Europe: update and public policies

Note rapide Population and Lifestyles, no. 412

How should we handle the social segregation which is dividing our most developed European cities ? In answer to this question, the IAU île-de-France conducted a comparative study on social and urban segregation in five European cities : Ile-de-France, Berlin, London, ...

March 2006 Anne-Claire Davy, Brigitte Guigou, Mariette Sagot

Taking safety into account in urban development: challenges and methodology

Note rapide Population and Lifestyles, no. 377

How can urban development meet the population's demand for safety and what solutions can be offered to urban development professionals faced with problems of insecurity ? What alternative ways are there of improving safety to methods that threaten the continuity of the urban ...

February 2005 Céline Loudier-Malgouyres