Update on the first 2017 report.
In 2017, a few months after the Maptam and NOTRe Laws were first implemented, elected representatives of the Grand Paris Metropolitan Forum wanted to draw up a first report in partnership with the Paris Urbanism Agency and the Paris REgion Institut (ex-IAU ÎdF). Based on a hundred or so responses from DGS (Directors General of Services) to a questionnaire and about forty interviews with members of public authorities, the results received wide acclaim.
Two years later, the representatives wanted to update and complete this first report, once again in partnership with the urbanism agencies. The results are illuminating: implementation is well advanced although there was a complex transitional period, the place of communes (municipalities) is confirmed despite a lack of recognition of the value of the supra-municipal scale, insufficient financial means allocated have not permitted good conditions for implementation.
Finally, there is a contrast of situations between the centre of the conurbation, where intercommunal integration is uneven and complex, the big EPCI (Public Establishments for Intercommunal Cooperation) on the periphery of the conurbation, which have become structured in spite of difficulties, and peri-urban and rural areas where the development dynamic on the intercommunal scale has been confirmed.
