European Spatial Research and Policy (Dec 2013)

From Industrial City to Sustainable City. The Northern Suburbs of Paris Yesterday and Today

  • Boris Lebeau

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/esrp-2013-0009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2
pp. 27 – 40

Abstract

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Former industrial suburbs, which are now the object of economic and functional transformations almost everywhere in Europe, are suitable testing grounds for implementing a more sustainable urban development. The case of the northern suburbs of Paris, which we will look at here, shows that there is no lack of political will or regulatory tools for imagining and planning this sustainable city. However, the social problems that affect these suburbs are a definite impediment to its realization.

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