Study Day. "Another way of making the city #2: multidisciplinary approaches".

Study day organised by Alexandre Grondeau with the participation of Claire Benit-Gbaffou

30 September 2022 from 9 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Location: Salle Georges Duby - MMSH, Aix-en-Provence

Organising group : 3.2 - The making of Mediterranean cities: models and standards in circulation and practice, 18th to 21st centuries

Over the last twenty years, a series of social, economic, identity, technological, environmental and now health and geopolitical crises has profoundly transformed the way cities are designed and produced. The limits of metropolisation, local governance and urban neo-liberalism mean that we need to find effective and efficient alternatives. These alternative perspectives can be found in new ways of looking at the classic metropolitan functions of transport, housing, government and the environment. At the same time, the emergence and affirmation of social and solidarity-based economies and the circular economy represent new challenges for the development and planning of our cities. This study day will address all these issues from a multidisciplinary and operational perspective.

PROGRAMME

Morning

9:00 Opening and welcome from the organisers,
Alexandre GrondeauSenior Lecturer, HDR, Aix-Marseille University (AMU)

9h15 Max Rousseau (CIRAD-Montpellier):
De-urbanisation and urban decline: the stakes in the debate

10h00 Claire Bénit (MESOPOLHIS-AMU):
From municipal reformism to institutional activism, how can we understand the conduct of alternative policies in cities? Reflections from Johannesburg to Marseilles

10h45 Maxime Schirrer (IRSA-CNAM) :
Urban mines for a different kind of city, an example of the territorialisation of the circular economy

11h30  Lionel Kieffer (Espace-AMU) :
Changes in modal and activity practices for new travel practices?

12h15 Thomas Pfirsch (Université Polytechnique Hauts de France - Géographie Cités) :
Vicinages. Family and new models of intergenerational cohabitation in the face of the urban crisis in Southern Europe

Afternoon

2.00 pm: Round-table discussion: "Can we still reinvent the city?

With Guy Burgel (Paris - Nanterre), Hélène Reigner (IUAR-LIEU-AMU), Ludovic Verre (Pays d'Aix town planning agency), Vincent Fouchier (Aix-Marseille Metropolitan Area), Christophe Alaux (IMPGT-AMU)

15h00 Lisa Esquerre and Alexandre Grondeau  (TELEMMe-AMU) :
Altermetropolitan perspectives: A GIS in France

3.30pm Conclusion. Key note speaker: Marie-Christine Jaillet (LISST-Toulouse 2)