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How to manage big urban projects?
A delegation from Reunion Island is visiting major projects (HafenCity Hamburg, Saint-Quentin en Yvelines and Plaine commune - France, Copenhagen By og Havn project - Denmark, Malmö - Sweden) to get some inputs on how to manage urban projects as they are launching a 5000ha project in the centre of the West Coast urban district. Preparing the next step the leading partner (TCO urban district) has prepared the following questions to be shared with other INTA members and looking for widening the debate. Which operators are involved in major development projects? How much risk operators take on?… Read more
Smart City
Activity transversally approached by the CCWU and CCServices - Urban Services Smart City Questions without answer The concept of smart city is not fixed and its ever-changing and adaptable nature makes even more complex the achievement of its operative stage. Smart City is a certainty whose outlines drop us away. It raises more questions than answers. Although its destiny is intimately mixed with technology development, it tells us nothing more about the place of the digital city and its determinism. Nevertheless it is a fact that the issue of governance is emerging and precisely since the… Read more
The car, what innovations for sustainable mobility?
Innovations are underway in all fields of sustainable mobility. The diversified range of means of transport is increasing in many areas and linked to a more integrated development of the territory. It opens up possibilities of significant improvements in quality of life and environmental protection (reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and use of fossil fuels). In this context, innovations of various kinds concerning the automobile are subject to debate but also considerable economic stakes. For example, the electric car, or car with other renewables are products of an industrial chain… Read more
Developing cities: towards a green economy?
From the Kyoto Protocol to Durban Summit, through meetings in Cancun and Copenhagen, the Member States of the United Nations have attempted to overcome the challenge of combining economic development and environmental protection. However, the social and economic gaps that exist between developed and developing countries highlight the need for new arrangements adapted to the reality of each country. The Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 showed us a new direction to take to make the city a viable and livable model of sustainable human habitat. Agreements resulting from this conference have… Read more
