APUR | Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme

Port de Solférino - Orsay Museum - Left Bank

Paris, a Metropolis on the Seine

The first Paris Plage created a real sensation in 2002. The embankment roads, which had been “confiscated” by cars during the year, became a special leisure space to the inhabitants of the metropolitan area over the period of one summer. The success that this renewed operation has brought is a forceful reminder of the attachment that our city dwellers have for the Seine… and of the possibilities to reinvent it.

Study |Furnished short term rented accommodation in Paris – the present situation and proposals for the future

november 2011 – 91 pages – Reference : AP BROAPU554 – Language : French

Furnished accommodation rented weekly or monthly used to be limited to seaside resorts, it has been developing a lot in Paris thanks to internet. Ads for weekly or monthly, furnished accommodation b...

Study |Redefining the Avenue de Nogent. A section of a large radial road in the Bois de Vincennes woods

december 2011 – 17 pages – Reference : AP BROAPU553 – Language : French

The Avenue de Nogent figures in numerous projects of varying scales: the City of Paris Department of Roads and Transport are studying the construction of a bicycle track ; the Committee of the “Vin...

Study |Paris, metropolises. A governance challenge

december 2011 – Reference : AP BROAPU552 – Language : French

In preparation for the the seminar “Paris, Metropolises. A governance challenge” organised on the 1st and 2nd of December 2011 by the City of Paris, Apur was requested to draw up a selective bibliog...

Study |Forward-looking study of the future of the Little Ring Railway -Petite Ceinture- Phase 1: Long-term diagnostic

august 2011 – 97 pages – Reference : AP BROAPU549 – Language : French

The disused, Little Ring Railroad the “Petite Ceinture” occupies a unique place in the Parisian urban landscape, it has a role in the history of the city and is deeply rooted in the collective imagi...

actu - têtière - Regarder autrement (article DA publié dans IOSIS)

Another way of looking

Article by Dominique Alba, delegated Director of Apur, published in issue 26 of the review IOSIS contact, December 2010 – January 2011.

Paris in the Making

On December 12th, the urban planning centre and museum, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal unveiled a new permanent exhibition* which devotes over 800 m2 to the past, the present and the future of the Parisian metropolis by means of more than 1000 archival documents, photographs, maps, plans, films and a 37 m2 digital model: Paris, Metropolis 2020, developed in partnership with Google and JC Decaux.