The publication of the 2013 map of inter-communality in Île-de-France, in the making since 2002, by Apur for the City of Paris, is an opportunity to highlight the guidelines for the future governanc...
The Parisian Urbanism Agency has launched a cartographic web application CASSINI (Apur Consultation of the Spatial Server via Internet and Intranet), which enables everybody to consult a collection ...
490,000 m3 is the volume of drinking water that was used each day in Paris in 2011. Paris' water supply comes equally from rivers (Seine and Marne) and from springs lying within an 80 to 150 k...
The Rabat Salé Urban Agency (AURS) issued an open, international call for tender with pre-selection in accord with the prize to draw up of a unified urban development plan (PAU) for the cities of Ra...
In 2004, Rio de Janeiro and Paris together, undertook a project on the sustainable urban development of the central zone of the Carioca metropolis. This initiative came about after a visit by Bertr...
Pierre Micheloni, the architect and urbanist who spent the greater part of his professional life at the Parisian Urbanism Agency has passed away suddenly.
A great number of us at Apur had the ...
Because of the knowledge and expert appraisals it develops, the Paris Urbanism Agency plays an important partnership role in researching, creating and implementing policies in Paris and the heart of...
Extracts from Dominique Alba's writings, which appear in the book “Paris, métropoles en miroir. Stratégies urbaines en Ile-de-France”, by Christiane Mazzoni and Yannis Tsiomis (dir.), published...
32 kilometres: this is the length of the little ring railway-la Petite Ceinture-, the railway line created at the end of the 19th century that circles Paris, inside the Boulevard des Maréchaux, conn...
The whole team at the Parisian Urbanism Agency wants to thank you for all that we have been able to do and share together in 2012 in the service of Paris, the whole metropolis and all its inhabitant...
Dominique Alba, director of Apur, gave a lecture in Vancouver on 5 November, 2012 on the subject: “50 years of urban strategies in Paris” as part of a programme organised by the French Embassy in Ca...
After the conferences in Le Havre and Rouen, the “Seine Axe – Act III” conference took place in Paris at the Hôtel de Ville on 22 November, 2012.
The mayors and presidents of the cities of Le ...
The working partnership of the urbanism agencies
In 2009, the mayors and presidents of Greater Paris, Rouen and Le Havre got together to put in motion the development of the Seine Valley and t...
Apur is now active on the social networking websites with the aim of interactively sharing the agency's news and it latest studies. Its Facebook page and being registered with Twitter and Goog...
100 million : this is the number of passengers who pass through the Gare du Nord railway station each year. The Gare de l'Est, however, totals a passenger traffic of 20 million. With the succes...
The results of the Epicea project (Multidisciplinary study of the impact of climate changes on the Parisian conurbation), which began in 2008, were presented on 25 October 2012 at the three day eve...
In the context of the studies carried out by the teams of AIGP architects and urbanists, APUR, IAU-Idf and DRIEA were asked to present their work on the metropolis.
This overview of Apur'...
This is the number of local authorities (Communes, inter-municipalities, Departments and the île-de-France Region) which have been members of the Paris Métropole Joint Studies Association since June...
The Observatories of Urbanism Agencies – Synthesis of the professional workshop at the 32nd FNAU Annual Meeting
The debate on Urbanism Agency Observatories and more widely on the skill of urb...
Real Italian coffee and Spritz, the incomparable Venetian aperitif, at the new café “Les Nautes” set up in a spruce container on the embankment Quai des Celestins, places to relax by the river; a ga...
