On the occasion of its 50th anniversary and in the presence of architects and urbanists, key players from each period and government representatives, Apur organised a series of retrospective and forward looking conferences retracing the urban story of 50 years and imagining the future.
Find the audio-recordings of the 4 conferences :
1967/1983 A New Vison of Paris
with Leonor Coutinho (Apur 1969-1974, ex-secretary of state for housing and communication with Portugal) and Jean-Louis Subileau (Apur 1970-1982, award winner of the 2001 Grand Prix d’Urbanisme).
1983/2001 The City makes a Comeback
with Christiane Blancot (head of studies at Apur), François Grether (Apur 1970-1992, award winner of 2012 Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme), and Nathan Starkman (Apur 1974-2000, award winner of 1999 Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme).
2001/2024 A Sustainable City, the Olympic Ambition
with Dominique Alba (Managing Director of Apur) and Patricia Pelloux (Deputy Managing Director of Apur).
2024/2067 The Metropolitan Future
with Valérie Meyer Blimont (metropolitan councillor appointed to represent the Chairman of Métropole du Grand Paris, head of the project ‘Let’s Invent the Métropole du Grand Paris’), Jean-Louis Missika (Deputy Mayor of Paris, responsible for urbanism, architecture, the Grand Paris project, economic development and attractiveness), Carlos Moreno (Professor, expert on the Intelligent City), and Benoît Quignon (Managing Director of the railway real estate company, SNCF Immobilier).
