Linking places: connecting territories and regenerating living spaces

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Transport and new kinds of centrality

Centralities in the changing city. What courses of action for public authorities?
ASCHER François, WIEL Marc, TORTEL Lucie
Lyon, CERTU, 2003, 214p.
This work revisits the subject of centralities and shows how they are appearing in wholly unexpected places in modern cites: shopping centres, multiplex cinemas, stations... all of these are becoming new focal points. The work offers elected representatives and urban planners tools to help them manage the development of these centralities.
Pressmark: AP UR950
The franchised city. Forms and structures of the modern city.
MANGIN David
Paris, pub. de la Villette, 2004,  398p.
Urban sprawl is pervasive and here to stay and, together with the way cities are changing their shape, it is redefining geography, creating hybrid territories which are neither urban nor rural. Starting with an analysis of the situation in France, but also covering America, Asia and Africa, the work studies the combined effects of road infrastructures, low-rise housing estates and shopping centres. The author focuses on the resulting morphological, economic and social consequences and reveals similarities in sector-based urbanism and franchised cities worldwide.
Pressmark: AP UR958
Imagining cities with stations as their focal point: final report of the Bahn,Ville 2 project on an urbanism centred around the rail system 
INREST; LVMT; CETE, 2010, 84 p.
Using the territory of Saint-Etienne as a testing ground, the Franco-German project Bahn,Ville 2 is trying to establish the conditions necessary for developing an urbanism centred around the rail system in the following ways: by working with local action bodies and providing access to relevant scientific and technical know-how; by offering first-hand knowledge, methods and tools which could be useful where decisions are being made and where urban and transport operations are actually underway; by ensuring that local key players responsible for sector policies take charge of the scientific aspects of the programme and oversee their co-ordination.
Stations: territorial and urban challenge 
Traits d’agence, n°20, spring 2008, pp. 5-14
In the last 25 years, high speed trains have shaken up territorial space-time in France. New territorial and political strategies are appearing: choice of route, location of stations, mixed purpose or purely business areas, urban projects.. Channelling regional railway expertise into the regions and transport expertise to major metropolitan conurbations could allow a new institutional region/conurbation relationship to emerge and lead the way to developing  the public transport system and inter-modality around railway interchange hubs...
Different views on exchange hubs in France. Current knowledge, analytical tools and criteria for conducting studies
CERTU
Lyon: Certu, 2005, 187p.
Exchange hubs are starting to play a significant role not only in terms of inter-modality, but also in the structuring of and accessibility to territories forming part of metropolitan conurbations. The creation of these hubs has moved beyond solely technical considerations; they are now one of the keys to sustainable development and bringing car use under control. As a result, this work is aimed not only at transport and mobility specialists but also at those working in the domain of territorial planning. It supplies reference points to help understand the many issues facing these places, where different jobs and different ways of seeing the city and transport systems cross paths. It also makes recommendations which are more practical as regards preparatory studies for exchange hub projects.
Pressmark: AP BROUR491
Station workshop proceedings
Gares & Connexions, 2010
Gares & Connexions is a branch of the SNCF. Its task is to manage, refurbish and develop the 3000 stations belonging to the network. Gares & Connexions implements development and investment projects in collaboration with local authorities and key territorial players. 
Prominent among its commitments are improving the services on offer and modernising and re-adapting stations.  The workshops which were organised in 2010 brought experts from various backgrounds together to discuss current issues concerning stations and their neighbourhoods.

New forms of mobility

Travelling and living in the metropolis. Intelligent thinking about daily life
MASSOT Marie-Hélène (dir.)
Paris, L'œil d'or, 2010, 332p.
Going to work, going shopping, spending time at home, going out in the evening: all these activities take place in time and space and in accordance with their frequency and duration they form the basis of people’s lifestyles. Urbanists, sociologists, geographers and economists open up a dialogue about the lifestyles of metropolis-dwellers and their mobility. Their analyses of daily tactics and routines, strategic capabilities and inequalities, negotiations and arbitration provide the keys to unlocking this work and grasping its rationale. 
Pressmark: AP CI537
Urban mobility: a time of possibilities
ORFEUIL  Jean-Pierre
Paris, Les carnets de l'info, 2008, 254p.
The author examines alternative solutions to ownership and use of private cars in cities (renting, car-pooling, etc.).
Pressmark: AP CI520
“A private, ecological river shuttle in the 19th district”
Dixneufinfo.com, November 2010
“Every day, river shuttles carry 1,500 employees to their workplace: the Parc du Millénaire, in the 19th district in Paris. They are comfortable, electric, silent, free and reserved for personnel who work on the site”.
Overview of innovative transport services in Europe
Paris, PREDIT, 2002, 50p + 30p
This research report studies transport services, compares different ways of getting around, from walking to public transport, and attempts to make alternative methods of transport more attractive than private car use.
Club Innovations Transports des Collectivités
Innovative experiments in the field of urban transport: a study comparing a number of experiments from abroad.
FRANKHAUSER Pierre (dir.), FLITTI Mehdi, PIOMBINI Arnaud, GIRERD G.
Laboratoire ThéMA, University of Franche-Comté, and ITEM Etudes & Conseils
Research Programme for the General Commissariat of the Plan, 2002, 197p.
This study identifies “best foreign practices” and examines possible ways of introducing them in large cities in France.
Step by step. Essay on everyday life in an urban environment
AUGOYARD Jean-François
Bernin, A la croisée, 2010 (new edition of the original 1979 publication), 222p.
This work was developed from a university thesis in which the author tries to capture the living space and practices of the inhabitants of a housing complex through the descriptions they give of where they go and how they get there. An unsuspected universe is revealed as the people living in the new Arlequin district in Grenoble talk about their ordinary, every day comings and goings. Step by step as they travel round the city, they put their experiences into words, create meaning and deliver an authentic, unconscious rhetorical account of their movements.  The author picks out and analyses certain examples.
Pressmark: AP UR1217
Car-sharing and other alternatives to private car ownership. Experiments in Paris, France and abroad.
APUR, June 2008, 45p.
For local authorities committed to developing alternatives to travelling by car, increasing the provision of public transport and the expansion of car-sharing are tools supporting an intelligent choice of modes of transport which respect the environment. This study reviews the current state of affairs as regards car-sharing experiments in France and world-wide, compares quantitative and qualitative data about existing services and then identifies ways in which this movement could be further developed in Paris. 
Self-service bike schemes: urban marketing or environmental policy?
SAILLIEZ Laurence
Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2010, 109p.
What comes out of this study is the fact that, even though no negative impact on the environment caused by self-service bike schemes has yet been identified, “a modal shift from cars to bikes unfortunately does not appear to be happening yet”. The most important observation is that the scheme makes a significant contribution to the public transport network.

New ways of using road infrastructures

A metropolis of infrastructures
PRELORENZO Claude, ROUILLARD Dominique
Paris, Picard, 2009, 333p.
This publication presents the work of 20 researchers specialising in questions regarding the relationship between cities and infrastructures: how can infrastructures, which are the organisational elements of a city, be integrated into urban space without fragmenting the metropolis?
Pressmark: AP EQ220
Time and transportation speed planning and motorways seen differently: proximity to the rescue of the territory
Grenoble Region Urbanism Agency; the master plan's joint local authority syndicate
Lyon, CERTU, April 2009, 200p.
Taking the experiments carried out in the region of Grenoble as an example, this work sets out to describe the different facets of time and transportation speed planning, a concept which endeavours to combine space and time in the territorial development process. This issue is tackled principally from a distance-time perspective, lightening traffic on motorways, offering top quality services and reorganising the equilibrium within metropolitan areas by developing multipolarisation.
Pressmark: AP CI524
No limit. Long-term study of ways to integrate the Parisian outer ring road – La Périphérique de Paris - into the urban fabric
TREVELO & VIGER-KOHLER ARCHITECTES
Paris, Paris City Council, December 2008, 312p.
This long-term study examines the territory of the ring road, La Périphérique de Paris, from a metropolitan-scale perspective in order to assess its potential for future development. The ring road is treated as a key super-structure facilitating communication and exchange between territories. The study identifies the last, large spaces offering re-development possibilities and presents a detailed analysis of six projects in particular.
Pressmark: PA 1440
Paris/Pantin. The tramway: challenges and projects
APUR, July 2008, 45p.
The arrival in 2012 of the Tramway T3 along the eastern inner ring road,- Maréchaux-Est - accelerated the transformation of the whole territory at the interface between Paris and Pantin, a place where important changes have been set in motion which will increase in the years to come.
Studies and reflections on the future of the large radial roads
Paris, Apur, December 2008, 132 + 4p.
The large radial roads which link Paris to territories in Île-de-France, the country as a whole and other European countries, have gained their character through their historic role in the development and structure of the territory. The challenges they present today to the metropolis as a whole go far beyond their function as roads and are impacting on the territories they cross. The study starts with an analysis of recent changes in the radial routes in the centre of the densely-built-up conurbation and examines their role as regards travel, present and future densification and the position and role of the key players concerned.
Urban study of the RN3 – Canal de l’Ourcq axis
Paris, Apur, December 2009, 55p.
This study explores some pivotal lines of work which could contribute to a sustainable territorial project on the RN3-Canal de l’Ourcq axis. The reconstruction of a major space, the A3/A86 interchange, forms a cornerstone of this project.
Competition concerning the development of the road leading from Place de l’Etoile to the Rond-Point de la Défense
City of Paris, Seine Department 
Paris, Editions d'art Charles Moreau, 1932, 35p, 54 plates
This document presents the projects proposed by architects taking part in the competition for ideas - Concours d’Idées - set up in 1931 by Paris City Council to develop “the major road which will leads from  Etoile to the Rond-Point de la Défense. The current redevelopment project for the RN13 is aiming to create a metropolitan-scale artery running from the Place de l’Etoile to Neuilly, and this document allows this “Major Axis” to be seen from a historical perspective.
Pressmark: AP PA1216