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Metropolitan data : Île-de-France Inter-Communal Map on 1st January 2013
april 18th 2013
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...
cartographic portal on a metropolitan scale detailed to land parcels: extract
april 18th 2013
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 ...
Figure of the month : 490,000 cubic metres : the volume of drinking water
april 10th 2013
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...
Drawing up the unified urban development plans for the cities of Rabat and Salé
march 4th 2013
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...
Paris/Rio de Janeiro co-operation
march 4th 2013
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...
In hommage to Pierre Micheloni
january 25th 2013
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 ...
Partnership work programme 2013/2014
january 22nd 2013
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...
 
january 16th 2013
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...
Figure of the month : 32 kilometres, the length of the Little Ring Railway
january 7th 2013
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...
New Year Greetings for 2013
december 21st 2012
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...
 
december 20th 2012
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...
Seine Axe Conference – Act III
december 10th 2012
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 ...
Seine Axe, a shared vision
december 10th 2012
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 on the social network sites
december 6th 2012
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...
Figure of the month : 100 million
november 29th 2012
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...
Îlots de chaleur urbain - Projet Epicea
november 15th 2012
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...
Contribution de l'Apur aux travaux de l'Atelier International du Grand Paris
november 7th 2012
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'...
Figure of the month : 202 local authority members of the Paris Métropole
october 22nd 2012
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
october 9th 2012
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...
The Seine Embankment: Les Nautes cafe on Quai des Célestins
september 14th 2012
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...