Atlas of the Greater Paris - Grand Paris Metropolis -

A collection of more than three hundred maps, produced by the agency's teams and its partners combine geographic, environmental, economic, societal, technical, etc. urban planning disciplines. They cover an area of 130 municipalities which form the metropolis. The different maps interact with a corpus of data and statistics to territorialize phenomena, reveal major urban and human dynamics and compare Grand Paris with other French and international metropolises. Certain subjects in fact reach far beyond administrative boundaries.

Organised into nine chapters, which can be read individually or consecutively, the atlas seeks to describe the challenges facing Grand Paris taking into account local circumstances and the realities of everyday life. The various inter-referenced connections paint a picture of a metropolitan system founded on the autonomy and complementarity of its components and the concerns of those who live and reside there, which meet in common challenges. Where demographic questions are seen from the viewpoint of the housing stock. Where new lifestyles are integrated into the mobility revolution. Where the prospects of health care, culture and education resonate with the international influence of Grand Paris. Where the challenges of solidarity interact with the ecological transition, etc. Attentive to the hybrid nature of situations, the maps also shed light on what connects people in Grand Paris, revealing the physical and immaterial links which are woven, the shared undertakings, the solidarity policies and the strong commitment of non-profit associations.

The aim is on the one hand to provide insight into the metropolis as it really is, how it functions on a daily basis and how it is experienced by its seven million plus inhabitants and eight million people present daily and on the other hand to open up a space for dialogue so as to imagine together its future in the face of the enormous challenges of the social and ecological transition.