Les Cahiers

Cities change the world

Cahiers, no. 176

According to the UN, over two-thirds of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. Today the planet counts an estimated 4.2 billion urbanites; this number is set to rise to 5 billion by 2030 and 6.7 billion by 2050. Cities lie at the heart of financial and ...

January 2020 Paul Lecroart, Léo Fauconnet, Maximilian Gawlik

The digital revolution in the Paris Region

Cahiers, no. 174

The digital revolution is hitting our towns, cities and way of life by means of big data, e-tourism, smart grids, e-commerce, smart housing, digital town and country planning, e-health, coworking, etc. It is changing the way we work, inhabit, travel, care for our health, and ...

November 2018

Garden cities, an ideal to be pursued

Cahiers, no. 165

Henri Sellier, among others, contributed, to the design of a more well-balanced and more sustainable city. Humanist and visionary, he was the father of the garden cities which were built during the interwar years in the Ile-de-France region. He knew how to reconcile the need ...

April 2013

Landscape, from plans to reality

Cahiers, no. 159

It is not growth that is measured any more but development. We measure differently by adding new factors to wealth such as well-being, health and accomplishment. Landscape shows the link in between man and nature. The landscape question is one that covers global problems. ...

September 2011

Large-scale urban development projects in Europe

Cahiers, no. 146

Bringing about changes in the Paris Ile-de-France city-region is the ambition that the Regional Council of Ile-de-France has set itself in adopting its new Regional Structure Plan. Three major challenges that are common to most European metropolises need to be taken up: ...

June 2007

Corporate real estate

Cahiers, no. 145

Aware of the importance of the strategic role of businesses as partners in urban planning, the Regional Council is bringing their representatives into the thinking process for drawing up the regional economic development plan. It is essential for the economic players, and in ...

October 2006

Lebanon: looking back and learning from experience

Cahiers, no. 144

Since 1991, Ile-de-France has been leading strong co-operation actions in favour of the Lebanon, and in particular in its capital region, the Beirut region. The aim has been for this co-operation to uphold values: such as those of sustainable development and of extracting ...

March 2006 Éric Huybrechts

The universities in Paris Region

Cahiers, no. 143

In an economic globalisation context, higher education, research and innovation are essential driving forces of competitiveness. They play a central role in the development of qualification, growth and employment. The University, with regard thereto, is a basic player, due ...

October 2005

Major risks in Ile-de-France: planning for prevention

Cahiers, no. 142

Heatwaves, storms, floods: although three in every four Paris Region residents do not consider they are exposed to risks of natural disasters, the concentration of the population, the growth in urbanisation, and the extent of the economic stakes are making the Paris region ...

August 2005

The river, a system, territories, players

Cahiers, no. 141

The river has played a major role in shaping the image of Ile-de-France: its landscapes, its human settlements, its rural and urban economies. At a time when the future of Ile-de-France for the coming decades is going to be mapped out, the river provides a basis for ...

June 2004

Airports and surrounding areas

Cahiers, no. 139-140

With Orly Airport and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, Paris Region boasts the sixth largest airport system in the world. Air transport is essential to Paris Region residents and to the regional economy, but relations are difficult between the airports and the local areas ...

March 2004

Major risks in Ile-de-France: knowledge as a basis for improved control

Cahiers, no. 138

In order to enable us to keep our present and our future better under control, the forward-looking thinks on planning and enhancing our region must do more to incorporate the concept of risk prevention, which is a necessary precondition for achieving sustainable development. ...

September 2003

Fringes of European metropolitan areas: territories for projects

Cahiers, no. 136

The metropolitan regions in North-Western Europe are now faced with the consequences of periurbanisation and today they are attempting to set up some principles for lasting development in these peripheral territories. In Ile-de-France, as in the other European metropolitan ...

March 2003

Economic performance of the European regions

Cahiers, no. 135

As Europe expands and globalisation proceeds apace, the major urban regions have been comparing and appraising their relative strenghts and weaknesses, in order to hold their own in an increasingly competitive international economic environment. These regions and their ...

December 2002

Public spaces: regaining urbanity

Cahiers, no. 133-134

Although rarely addressed per se, public space is very much at the heart of our preoccupations. Changes in society have meant that it is increasingly a forum of conflict, between environmentally-friendly forms of transport and the car, between public and private and citizens ...

September 2002

Flexibility and precariousness

Cahiers, no. 131-132

Over the last thirty years the Ile-de-France area economy has undergone far-reaching change. While enhancing its competitiveness in line with other great European metropolises and adapting to the demands of globalisation, it has also become more fragile and vulnerable to ...

March 2002

Heritage in the Paris region: protecting the rich heritage in the context of sustainable development

Cahiers, no. 130

History has left its imprint on the Paris region lending profound unity to its rich diversity. Its identity is founded on harmony born from a blend of historical and contemporary beauty, bell towers and villages, glass and concrete, rivers and forests. A region of "capital" ...

March 2001

Heritage in the Paris region: from the aesthetics of conservation to a forward-planning dynamic approach

Cahiers, no. 129

The Paris region is rich in both natural and architectural heritage. The locality enjoys a wealth of features both in the form of monuments and sites, recorded and preserved very early on thanks to an appreciation of their value although, at times, necessity has meant ...

December 2000

Transportation in large cities: for an overall strategy

Cahiers, no. 128

The purpose of this second issue of Les Cahiers dedicated to transportation in large cities is to describe the trends in those cities' policies. The goals are not entirely new: developing public transportation and reducing road congestion are unquestionable concerns, as it ...

September 2000

Transportation in large cities: current thoughts

Cahiers, no. 127

Transportation is a key factor of dynamism and quality of life in large cities. Because of that, there can be no pause in investments in that area. Ile-de-France is so particularly aware of the fact that the Region and Government have just decided to implement a ...

June 2000