Cahiers
Large-scale urban development projects in Europe . Cahiers n° 146
June 2007
Large-scale urban projects, often combined with flagship developments and the organisation of a major sporting or cultural event, are increasingly used by european cities and city regions as strategic planning and development instruments. These projects are considered as appropriate answers to a ran...
Corporate real estate . Cahiers n° 145
October 2006
The appearance of new strategies related to the economic recompositions, to the financialisation of the property market, and to the emergence of new institutional players have changed how firms relate to their property and to their host territory. These changes are not without spatial and urban consequences. This Cahier sets out to help the reade...
Airports and Surrounding Areas . Cahiers n° 139-140
October 2003
For a region, a high-performance airport is an essential factor in competitiveness, a tool at the service of local and regional economic and tourism development. It makes it possible to integrate into the main stream of the global economy. It is a window onto the world, and a gateway to the region, ...
Economic Performance of the European Regions . Cahiers n° 135
March 2003
This Cahiers presents the results of the GEMACA study in 13 articles : Cities and regions : comparable measures require comparable territories ; The competitiveness of cities : why it matters in the 21st Century and how we can measure it ? The socio-economic profiles of Fu...
Public, Living and City Space . Cahiers n° 133-134
October 2002
Although rarely addressed per se, public space is very much at the heart of our preoccupations.Changes in society have meant that it is increasingly a forum of conflict between environmentally-friendly forms of transport and the car, between public and private and citizens of the same metropolis, ci...
Flexibility and Precariousness . Cahiers n° 131-132
September 2002
Over the last thirty years the Ile-de-France area economy has undergone far-reaching change. While enhancing its competitiveness in line with other great European metropolises and adapting to the demands of globalisation it has also become more fragile and vulnerable to fluctuations in international...
Transportation in large cities . Cahiers n° 127
October 2000
Transportation is a key element in the operation and development of major metropolises. Greater involvement of local authorities in the decision-making process In all the metropolises, the decision-making power is currently held by the central government. Such is the case in London, New York and ...
Economic challenges in Ile-de-France . Cahiers n° 124
September 1999
In the framework of today’s economic context, employment, the reduction of unemployment and the acquisition of essential skills are among the primary concerns of Ile-de-France residents. There are some shady areas in the economy of Ile-de-France There is one conclusion to be drawn as the 1990s com...
Three centuries of maps in the Ile-de-France - Volume 2 . Cahiers n° 120
January 1998
In its constant concern to gain a better understanding of realities in the Ile-de-France, the IAU îdF has carried out an extensive study of maps of the region, covering a period of three centuries. The results are presented in two special issues of the...
Three centuries of maps in the Ile-de-France - Volume 1 . Cahiers n° 119
December 1997
In its constant concern to gain a better understanding of realities in the Ile-de-France, the IAU îdF has carried out an extensive study of maps of the region, covering a period of three centuries. The results are presented in two special issues of ...
The landscapes of the Ile-de-France . Cahiers n° 117-118
October 1997
The Ile-de-France has a very fine heritage of architecture and landscape. But the threat to the landscapes is even greater in the Ile-de-France than anywhere else, because of the size of its population, the extent of its urbanisation and the importance of its infrastructure. The time has now come to...