the agency

The agency is as much the place, the method, and the tool for bringing out common positions and collectively adapting the greater Paris metropolitan area to the new climate regime. It serves as a space for exchange, meetings, and debates, facilitating connections. The diversity of urban and social study areas is combined with the multi-disciplinarity of the team’s know-how. Apur documents changes, participates in planning procedures, formalizes strategic initiatives, conducts studies, animates observatories, proposes urban development planning, and promotes the metropolitan culture.
Its diverse areas of intervention—architecture, economy, environment, housing, mobility, urban planning, etc.—go beyond the institutional scope.  Built in collaboration with all partners and teams, the partnership-based work program revolves around four main actions: 

• documenting and analyzing metropolitan transformations; 
• contributing to the definition of public urban planning policies; 
• initiating and developing prospective studies; 
• producing and sharing metropolitan culture. 

This program is implemented across all geographical, temporal, political, and sociological scales.
All the work carried out within the framework of the partnership program (studies, reports, observatories, as well as prospective analyses presented through maps and data visualizations) is freely accessible to the public. Similarly, Apur’s documentary collection—comprising over fifty years of archives and more than 20,000 references, including Apur publications, books, maps, Paris Council deliberations, study and research reports, public reports, theses, and memoirs—is available to all. The data created from these works is made available on it’s open data platform.

In parallel, on behalf of third parties— for both public and private actors in France and internationally—Apur carries out studies, putting its expertise and knowledge at the service of transformation of metropolitan spaces, from the territorial to the local scale, from major usage trends to spontaneous phenomena.  Apur therefore enhances its expertise in various areas : planning,  economy, environment, housing, and mobility (site entry). These actions  contribute both to Apur’s economic model, as well as to the reputation and influence of the  greater Paris metropolitan area.