Reinventing cities: a new urban regeneration process in circulation?
Résumé
In 2014, the city of Paris made a buzz in the French planner community, launching the first call for innovative urban projects, entitled Réinventer Paris. The principle was quite simple: grouping sales of public goods (real estate properties for the most part) in a single call for multi-skill teams of private operators. The promises were big: boosting innovative projects, accelerating the operational process, taking into account future uses. Such as the controversy: some pointed to the risk of privatization of the city; others, questioned the growing role of private developers in planning. Soon after, this type of calls flourished in the Greater Paris area, then elsewhere in France and quite quickly in many countries, thanks to the the international program Reinventing Cities promoted by an international metropolis network (C40). The reinventing cities programs focus particularly on the environmental challenges that winning urban regeneration projects must address. The communication will propose a critical reading of this international device in diffusion, from Paris to Rome, and of the underlying model it promotes. Different cases of regeneration projects in Roma (the Tuscolana station district) and in the Greater Paris will be particularly mobilized to enlighten the discussion.
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