Changing Territories

Ville et campagne sont profondément reliées et constituent les deux facettes d’un même modèle territorial. Si en ces temps anxiogènes de pandémie, la ville repoussoir trouve son pendant dans la campagne refuge, cela ne remet pas en cause la nécessité de travailler à l’amélioration des interactions spatiales, plutôt que d’appeler

À l’aube de la mise en instruction parlementaire de la loi Climat et Résilience contenant des mesures sur la densification urbaine, l’Observatoire des villes vertes a interrogé les collectivités sur leur niveau de prise en compte de l’enjeu d’artificialisation des sols. Pour cette 9e vague d’enquête, 18 grandes villes françaises

Le Comité européen des régions (CdR) (1) a présenté sa feuille de route concernant le pacte vert pour l’Europe pour 2021. Lors de la quatrième réunion de son groupe de travail « Pacte vert pour l’Europe : investir l’échelon local », les responsables politiques de collectivités territoriales se sont accordés

L’objectif de « Zéro artificialisation nette » est une mesure phare du plan biodiversité du gouvernement, qui sera proposé en Conseil des ministres le 10 février prochain. Une mesure méconnue aussi bien par la population que par les maires. Pourtant, la lutte contre l’artificialisation des sols est un enjeu essentiel

More than 60 local collectives of inhabitants from all over France mobilized against projects for shopping areas or e-commerce warehouses sent this morning an open letter to the President of the Republic. One week after his speech at the Citizen's Convention for the Climate during which he

Cities are evolving in the face of new demographic, environmental and societal constraints. With four days to go before the second round of the French municipal elections, it is urgent to grasp the multiple challenges of the transformation of our living spaces. Those related to digitalisation, the fight against climate change, mobility, etc.

On Wednesday, May 27, four associations, Friends of the Earth France, Notre Affaire à Tous, Wild Legal and Maiouri Nature Guyane filed an appeal before the Council of State to obtain the cancellation of the decree of April 8, 2020, which generalizes the right of prefects to derogate from many regulatory standards,

The coronavirus crisis shows how fragile the food supply of cities is. Because of this, some basic necessities are missing in some shops in the West, a bit like in the old days in the shops of the Soviet Union! But developing cities that are more resilient in terms of food, economy and ecology,

We are three days away from the first round of the municipal elections in France, marked by a political context punctuated by "business" and by the growing mistrust of citizens towards their leaders. In the context of these municipal elections, Transparency International France, the French section of the Main

Who would have thought that after Thomas Edison's widespread lighting of homes and factories in 1879, the electricity fairy that illuminates our cities and countryside would become a source of waste? Night light has become a cause of pollution in just a few decades. It affects in a very sensitive way the 

Good news: Edouard Philippe is paying for his tour! He has just announced this Friday, September 20, on the occasion of the congress of the Association of Rural Mayors, the willingness of the government to encourage the maintenance and opening of cafés in villages, as part of the government's "rural agenda". Objective: to revitalize the territories!

Biodiversity is undergoing massive and rapid erosion: 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction according to the latest IPBES report. Among the main causes is the artificialisation of land caused by urban sprawl and diffuse constructions, which destroy natural habitats and ecological continuities. It

The Yellow Vests crisis has brought to light a deep divide between town and country. The inhabitants of the cities would be opposed to the inhabitants of the fields by different, even antagonistic, lifestyles and socio-economic levels. But does this cleavage correspond to a reality? For Eric Charmes, sociologist

How to "Govern and Innovate in the Real Digital City"? The question comes back to a report published on 25 April 2018, in the form of a "handbook", produced by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the FING (New Generation Internet Foundation), which focuses on the capture of

Achieving the smart city also requires a transformation "from within", by reinventing its public services. This is what François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon and president of Dijon Métropole (1), advocates in a note for the Observatoire de l'expérimentation et de l'innovation locales where he analyses OnDijon, a