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Yearbook: The acceleration – Urban realities 2019

Mobility financing, the opposition to large infrastructure and  urban planning project, smart cities, the effects of metropolization on territories… these are the themes explored by La Fabrique de la Cité throughout 2019, and which it invites you to explore today in this second edition of its annual “yearbook”.

 

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The mid-sized cities at high speed

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The smart city is dead, long live the climate-smart city!

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Financing a decarbonized mobility: making the economics work

Personnes âgées sur un banc / Old people in a park
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Mid-sized cities facing demographic aging

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Are we making cities inaccessible?

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Paving the way for a low-carbon city for all: the Palladio Foundation and La Fabrique de la Cité launch the “Université de la Ville de Demain”

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Paving the way for low-carbon mobility

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Having a Mayor’s view for USDOT

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When territories take the floor and propose a vision of the future of mobility

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Let the Airbus of batteries take off

Véhicule électrique / Electric véhicule
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Putting innovation back on the road to progress

Transport en commun vide
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Thinking about future mobility

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Towards a renewed approach of urban logistics?

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University of the City of Tomorrow – Is the low-carbon city for all possible?

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Singapore, towards a more human smart city model?

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A new online tool highlighting 19 solutions for funding mobility in a post-carbon world

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Funding mobility in a post-carbon world

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Funding mobility in a post-carbon world

Transports en commun
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Lowering carbon intensity and initiating economic recovery

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From smart to safe city, a (geo)political shift due to COVID-19?

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Putting mobility back on track

Passagers avec des masques dans le métro
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Sending out an SOS

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Behind the words: telecommuting

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Behind the words: urban congestion

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Across cities in crisis #8: with Carlos Cadena-Gaitán in Medellin

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Taking distance: back to Singapore

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Deconfinement: a life-size test for the smart city?

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Toronto: How far can the city go?

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Smart cities, between global circulation and local cultures

The acceleration, urban realities 2019
Yearbook

The acceleration – Urban realities 2019

Chantal Bernier - Quayside (Toronto)
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The Quayside Project in Toronto: getting to the bottom of the data issue

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Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside Project: a new urban social contract?

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2020 New Year’s reception – Will the city of tomorrow be shaped by Google?

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The political and technological challenges of future mobilities

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Smart city and surveillance measures : a conversation with Myrtille Picaud and Régis Chatellier

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The liveable city, a tool for the shaping of urban imagination : dialogue between Limin Hee and Antoine Picon

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The storytelling of “smart cities”

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Living in 20 years: which scenarios for the future of French territories?

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Airports in 2050: urban scale switches

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Inventing the future of urban highways

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What role can digital technology play in addressing mobility challenges?

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Inventing the future of urban highways

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The cyborg city, an all-encompassing urbanity?

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Psychoanalysis of the smart city

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Embracing complexity: how Singapore became Singapore

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Coordinating mobility stakeholders: the AustriaTech platform – Interview with Martin Russ

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Is efficient mobility a guarantee of quality?

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Expert viewpoint: Is efficient mobility a guarantee of quality? Guillaume Malochet

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Cities in the race for quality of life: between local area marketing and a new approach for urban policy

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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: what role does big data play in cities?

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Thomas Madreiter: Vienna and the smart city

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Does the ideal city exist? In conversation with Antoine Picon, Ariella Masboungi and Michel Eltchaninoff

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Paris: can densification rescue affordable housing?

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The end (of the end) of traffic congestion

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Living with urban traffic congestion: when digital makes us love bottlenecks

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Improving our understanding of traffic to improve our response: “It’s the economy, stupid!”

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When digital makes traffic worse, or the paradoxes of modernity

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Time to put an end to urban sprawl

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Large infrastructure projects head to head with 21st century democracy: pride, prejudice, sense and sensibility

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