Old school 80s French university textbook which feature their authors, a thread and an ode 🧵:. starting with this gorgeous urban planning textbook

+about the political governance, citizen participation, & economic implications of large Parisian and Grand Parisian infrastructural projects, this paper on the critical histories of the Grand Paris Express and the Mobilien BRT network:

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Last month, we organized a Grand Parisian Night on the joint futures of the Parisian city center and its suburbs. The roundtable included Lamia El Aaraje, Deputy mayor of Paris, as well as architecture historians, designers, and artists. video📽️

Our research on the geography of rental deserts, and its links with zoning and segregation, co-authored with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki and Sophia Wedeen, is now published in the Journal of Urban Affairs. We’re grateful for the insightful feedback from reviewers.

It was such a pleasure to talk about the shared housing challenges and opportunities of California and France yesterday. Thank you to the entire @SPUR_Urbanist team!.

Join us this Tuesday, January 7, if you’re in San Francisco! Excited to discuss what California can learn from French housing at @SPUR_Urbanist, where I had the privilege to work and learn many years ago. A special thank you to @alexschafran @terplan and @michaeldlane.

Recent collective book Lieux Communs, in which I talk about chambres de bonnes, was featured on the @franceinter national radio:.

How can we redefine priorities and develop tools to face upcoming health, environmental, and social crises? You can pick up your copy here:

How can we reignite the political potential of Grand Paris, which, apart from perhaps equating new subway lines, remains poorly understood by Parisians and metropolitan stakeholders alike?.

What lessons can be drawn from overtourism, the luxury turn of Paris, new modes of making the city, and the lingering effects of social exclusion? How can we better support the 800,000 Grand Parisiens who commute daily?.

How should Paris redefine its role within the metropolitan area of which it is the epicenter? How can we break free from nostalgic narratives that continually surround discussions of Paris and its exceptional past? How can we update and shift these questions?.

New collective book! Pour en finir avec le petit Paris brings together insights from committed practitioners who all examine the joint futures of “Petit Paris” and “Grand Paris.” Merci @MansatPierre, former Deputy Mayor of Paris, for inviting me to share my thoughts on the topic.

RT @Harvard_JCHS: Happy 100th birthday to President Carter from everyone our Center who puts on a hard hat each year to help @Habitat_org i….

& 5 key conditions:.🏙️ Promoting strategic + comprehensive planning.🤝 Strengthening vertical + intersectoral coordination (national/local levels).✅ Promoting systematic evaluations of outcomes.💰 Optimizing urbanization financing.🏢 Strengthening technical/human resources.

The Review offers a roadmap + concrete recommendations around 4 key pillars:.📈 Strengthening economic development and reducing territorial disparities.🫶 Promoting inclusive growth in cities.♻️ Building sustainable cities.🌱 Enhancing economic, social, & environmental resilience.

💡Moroccan cities are home to more than 65% of the population and are the country's economic engine. How can the potential of Moroccan cities be harnessed to stimulate economic growth, reduce inequalities, promote sustainability, and strengthen Morocco's resilience?.

📣 The OECD Review of Morocco's National Urban Policy was released last week, written under the leadership of Camille Viros, Soo-Jin Kim, and Aziza Akhmouch 📣. I'm grateful to be one of the authors who drafted sections of it, alongside Catherine Paquette and Maria Paula Caldas.

A special thank you to @FinalRetrofit and @surmizes for the opportunity to participate to this project. Book launch party at the Institut de Géographie , Friday, September 20 at 6:00 PM!.@EditionsFayard.

This new collective book is a grand tour through both classic and new spaces, edited by @FinalRetrofit, Michel Bussi, and Fabrice Argounès. Echoing and extending a recent beautiful @99piorg episode which pays such a great tribute to the chambres de bonnes

This beautiful book brings together contributions on the typologies that may or may not shape the cities of tomorrow, from suburban single-family homes to AirBnB apartments, from the Olympic Village to data centers, and so on.

Haussmannian buildings - Housing crisis - Climate adaptation - Thermal comfort. New book w my contribution on "La Chambre de Bonne", an essential typology to understand the intersection of housing, work, climate, and health. Also think ADUs, or Brazilian quartos de empregada.