As part of the international consultation ‘Quartiers de demain’, thirty teams of architects, urban planners and landscape architects spread across ten sites in France were invited to consider the future of France’s priority neighbourhoods. This book, published by Flammarion, presents the thirty projects and shares the lessons learnt, reflections and innovative methods – based on resident participation and the regeneration of existing structures – designed to reinvent these neighbourhoods and bring together ecological transition, social vitality and architectural quality. This unique laboratory for experimentation and forward-thinking thus demonstrates concrete and distinctive pathways for envisaging alternative urban trajectories: a wealth of visions for shaping the future of our cities and positioning priority neighbourhoods within 21st-century France.
As part of the international consultation ‘Quartiers de demain’, thirty teams of architects, urban planners and landscape architects spread across ten sites in France were invited to consider the future of France’s priority neighbourhoods. This book, published by Flammarion, presents the thirty projects and shares the lessons learnt, reflections and innovative methods – based on resident participation and the regeneration of existing structures – designed to reinvent these neighbourhoods and bring together ecological transition, social vitality and architectural quality. This unique laboratory for experimentation and forward-thinking thus demonstrates concrete and distinctive pathways for envisaging alternative urban trajectories: a wealth of visions for shaping the future of our cities and positioning priority neighbourhoods within 21st-century France.
