With the participation of:
Philippe Panerai, Shahinda Lane, Vincent Lavergne, Michel Lussault, Olivier Mongin, Jean-Michel Roux, Christiane Blancot, Jean Castex, Gilles Delalex, Can Onaner, Georgi Stanishev.
Contemporary globalisation cannot be summarised by merely economic power. It is also linked to urban globalisation. Contemporary urbanisation implies that urban ways of life are spread throughout all the territories effecting all landscapes. Living there all are subjected on all scales and at all speeds. Globality is found everywhere in local space, the urban future depends on material and intangible interconnections.
There will be no livable and sustainable urban globalisation other than that which combines the global with the local. The spirit of a city is that of the conurbation and of democracy. Political democracy cannot be taken apart from the rigorous demands of both social and urban democracy.
Conference organised in partnership with Tous Urbains, The French University Press (PUF) and the Ile-de-France Maison de l’Architecture.
Free entry