Cities, Ecological Transition and Local Politics: A Comparative Perspective

Conference organized by Paavo Monkkonen, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affair, and 2024-2025 research-fellow at the Paris IAS (FIAS program), and Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, Professor of Geography at Université Paris Cité.

Event open to the public with mandatory registration.
Presentations in English and French.

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Presentation

This conference will explore the state of urban policy knowledge and practice on the ecological transition, especially on the most politically contested changes like housing densification and the reallocation of street space to public transport (bus lanes) and active transportation (bike lanes), through a comparative perspective on urban development politics.

Participants

- Paavo Monkkonen, UCLA, Paris IAS
- Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, Université Paris Cité
- David Kaufman, ETH Zurich
- Jordi Honey-Roses, ICTA-UAB Barcelona
- Maryame Amarouche, Université Lyon 3
- Claire Fonticelli, Aix Marseille Université
- David Miet, Villes Vivantes
- Joël Idt, Université Gustave Eiffel
- Matthieu Gimat, Université Paris Cité
- Magda Maaoui, Harvard University
- Renaud Le Goix, Université Paris Cité

Program

2.15pm - 3.50pm: Session 1. Chair Renaud Le Goix
2.15pm - 2.40pm: Divided Cities: Can California Overcome its Resistance to Urbanism? 
Paavo Monkkonen (University of California, Los Angeles, Paris Institute for Advanced Study)
2.40pm - 3.05pm: Creating Urban Space: A Visualization-Based Survey Experiment for Urban Street Redesign
David Kaufmann (ETH Zurich)
3.05pm - 3.25pm: Zone À Densifier ! Le logement social comme locomotive de croissance des périphéries lyonnaises et rbatis
Maryame Amarouche (Université Jean Moulin)
3.25pm - 3.50pm: Radical Pedestrianization: Barcelona’s Superblocks and Green Axes
Jordi Honey-Roses (ICTA-UAB)
3.45pm - 4.15pm: Break
4.15pm - 5.45pm: Session 2. Chair Céline Vacchiani-Marcuzzo
4.15pm - 4.40pm: Espaces ouverts sous tension : mobilisations et enjeux d’aménagement dans la métropole d’Aix-Marseille
Claire Fonticelli (Aix-Marseille Université)
4.40pm - 5.05pm: Housing densification in the Paris metropolitan area. A process in midstream? 
Joël Idt (Université Gustave Eiffel)
5.05pm - 5.30pm: La densification douce est-elle plus facilement acceptable que la densification forte ? Selon quelles stratégies ? Avec quels outils ?
David Miet (Villes vivantes)
5.30pm - 5.45pm: Concluding words
Paavo Monkkonen (UCLA, IEA de Paris)
5.45pm - 7pm : Cocktail