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Eco-districts: the future of the city?

Marleen Kaptein, Bruno Bessis

26/11/2014

A Dutch expert in urban development, who founded one of her country’s leading eco-district projects, discusses the future of eco-districts with a French specialist in sustainable development. Could such areas be the key to the future of urban life?

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Public Policies & professional mobility

Marie-Hélène Massot, Jean-Marc Offner

24/06/2014

A University lecturer and an urban planner discuss professional mobilities and their role within community life. How do public authorities and, more broadly, society and its various components deal with mobility management?

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Imagined mobilities

Arnaud Passalacqua, Allen Batteau

27/05/2014

An American anthropologist and a French historian debate the significance of elected officials, transport professionals and users’ imaginaries on their choices and on decision making.

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Traveling without ticket?

Jean-Louis Sagot-Duvauroux, Allan Alaküla

25/04/2014

Despite being 3,000 kilometres apart, a French intellectual and a representative of the Tallinn European Union Office come together to discuss a question which both believe to be crucial for the future: the need for free public transport.

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What metropolitan transport for Los Angeles?

Lucile Waquet, Jean Leveugle

07/04/2014

What transportation policy to develop in a sprawling, segregated city like Los Angeles? What place to give the car? Is it better to favor the subway network or the bus network? And why – economic reasons (competitiveness, employment, etc.), environmental reasons (reducing pollution and fossil resources consumption) and/or social reasons (the fight against social and racial inequality)?

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What are the effects of the acceleration of social rhythms?

Hartmut Rosa, Michel Lussault

31/03/2014

If they agree on the reality of an acceleration of social processes, the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa and the French Geographer Michel Lussault strongly disagree on the sustained importance of space and its effects – either good or bad – for our societies.

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Questioning transport Infrastructures

Mathias Emmerich, Stephen Graham

03/03/2014

From one side to another of the Channel, a British sociologist and a Board Member of the SNCF discuss the impact of public infrastructures on society, from an economic, politic and social perspective.

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Is transport infrastructure responsible for economic development?

Rémy Prud’Homme, Jean-Marc Offner, Emmanuel Ravalet

27/02/2014

Put in this way, the answer seems fairly obvious. And yet, it is an important debate that continues – even today. Indeed, in local political milieus it is still common to hear talk of the need to build highways to improve access to regions, thus allowing for their development. From where does this stance originate?

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Mobility and conviviality in a rural environment

Marie Huyghe, Odile Proust

30/01/2014

Is there a place for public or shared transportation in a rural environment? How can the needs of an isolated person or with reduced mobility be met? How should the ecological issues be dealt with? Here are the responses of an engineer who specialises in such questions, and a local elected representative who has played a significant role in developing the Pilat Regional Park in France.

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why study super-rich mobility?

Javier Caletrío, Olivier Mongin

17/12/2013

Shall we study the mobilities of the rich or those of the poor? How to understand the super-rich's virtual and material flows in relationship with those of the rest of the world population? Discussion between a Spanish sociologist and a French philosopher.

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Urban cycling

Dave Horton, David Dansky

26/11/2013

Cycling is moving up the agenda of town and city planners across Europe, given its benefits as a healthy, highly sustainable mode of transport. But how can it best be developed in today’s car-dominated urban environment? FVM talks to two British cycling experts, Dave Horton and David Dansky, about the key issues.

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Compactness as a response to environmental issues?

Jacques Lévy, Philippe Estèbe

10/10/2013

“There remains a source of divergence among contributors: the preferred urban model for resolving the problems of congestion and pollution linked to the rise of urban mobilities. The opposition, which one might have thought we had left behind, between supporters of more compact towns and cities … and those who believe in a more diffuse urban environment, continues to flare up.”

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