Tag: smart cities
In Strasbourg, guided tour of five rehabilitated heritage sites
In the heart of Strasbourg, the city center is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the municipality was awarded the City of Art and History label in 2013.…
“Words from readers” – Suburban crisis: local elected officials both responsible and victims
JI really appreciated the analysis by François Dubet and Fabien Truong on the anger of the suburbs, published in The world dated October 7. Their images of the airlock becoming…
“We are calling for the implementation of an ambitious national plan in favor of bus stations to build the carbon-free mobility of tomorrow”
Ln September 7, 2023, Paris City Hall announced the closure of the Bercy-Seine bus station to long-distance coaches (SLO, freely organized services, known as “Macron coaches”), even though this bus…
Compost, this new brown gold in our trash cans
Tuesday September 5, 7:30 p.m., in a composting pavilion in Paris. We are invited to the launch of Gaspard Kœnig’s novel, Humus (L’Observatoire, 379 pages, 22 euros), one of the…
The electricity network manager optimistic about the supply of electricity in France this winter
An RTE technician in the electricity transmission conversion station at the France-Spain electricity interconnection of Baixas-Santa-Llogaia (Pyrénées-Orientales), October 24, 2023. RAYMOND ROIG / AFP France should get through the winter…
from the endless construction site at Austerlitz station to the widespread use of clean buses
Image taken from the program “Parigo” on the Austerlitz station, in Paris. FRANCE 3 PARIS ÎLE-DE-FRANCE FRANCE.TV – ON DEMAND – MAGAZINE Austerlitz is to train stations what the Sagrada…
“A thoughtful application of the system can have the induced effect of a reduction in territorial inequalities”
Ln September 30, Les Républicains (LR) president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez announced his decision to withdraw his region from the “zero net artificialization” (ZAN) system, on the grounds…
“It is time to build an innovative, sustainable and accessible transportation network”
Lhe “France that leads” deserves a mobility system that meets the challenges and its aspirations. It is not utopian to aspire that, within a few years, more than 80% of…
Fertile Island, Porte d’Aubervilliers in Paris
The public space built on two levels of the Fertile Island, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). JULIEN HOURCADE On a former industrial wasteland made up of workshops of the technical services of…
“the existing stock is actually not very busy”
IIt is always worth remembering: the building sector is responsible for almost half of energy consumption and a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in France. If the “greening” of the…