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
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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.
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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!
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It is 2019 AD. All of France is occupied by pesticides... All of it? No! Because a village populated by die-hard Frenchmen is still resisting the invader. And life is not going to be easy for the garrisons of polluters from the entrenched camps of manufacturers of products
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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
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It is not only in France that the campaign for the European elections is struggling. The situation is the same in the 28 member states of the European Union. In the United Kingdom, the pro-Brexit section of the electorate finds it difficult to accept the fact that they have to go to the polls,
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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
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A Manufacture (of weapons), a plain (Achilles), a factory (of innovation), laboratories (of innovative uses and practices), a large factory (creative), platforms (technological), hotels (with project), a village (by CA), a centre (of Knowledge for Innovation), a concierge, incubators, accelerators...and even a Mixer! It all starts
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The law on energy transition for green growth places the Overseas Departments and Collectivities and Corsica at the forefront of the development of renewable energies. It also gives them responsibility for defining their own multi-annual energy programming, in collaboration with the State. How to better respond to the challenges
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The centre-bourgs are dying in the small towns of our French Provinces. Just look at the lowered curtains of the shops and the number of shops for sale. This is a national phenomenon. A devitalization of the cities that the inhabitants are deserting, showing a feeling of decline and abandonment that is great.
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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
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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
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Despite the innovation, coffee has always been the first social network in the territories. So what happened to the 600,000 bistros that existed in France in 1960? By 2016, there were only 34,000 (1). And today, 26,000 of the 32,212 French towns and villages no longer have any coffee.
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Crisis of confidence between citizens and their representatives, difficulties for the latter to carry out their public service missions, mistrust in the face of programmes that do not or no longer correspond to collective aspirations, nor to the realities on the ground, ... The list is long for the widening gap.
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Label d'or in 2016, Versailles Grand Parc and the city of Versailles will host the regional stage of the Interconnectés 2017 season on Wednesday 18 October, from 9am to 5pm. The aim of this stage is to encourage the sharing of experiences, the debate on the challenges of innovation and digital technology and the promotion of
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The 6th edition of the Project City forum, a forum on the new challenges and needs of the city, will take place on 17 & 18 October 2017 at the Lille Grand Palais: forecasting, trend analysis, education on the latest development projects and their technicality, highlighting the "talents" of the sector and
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