How to make a city friendly?
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View of an information panel showing the Kéré Architecture project.
© Delphine Bousquet / RFI
By: Charlie Dupiot Follow |
Emmanuelle Bastide
51 mins
If cities are often considered too dense, too noisy or too polluted, the situation should not improve.
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According to UN projections, two thirds of the world's population should live in cities in 2050. The issues of cohabitation, development and organization of urban space then become all the more crucial for those who live in cities. small dwellings.
Whether in the streets, parks, terraces, squares, residents, workers, students or visitors are brought to meet and coexist.
If the public authorities have a big role to play, they are sometimes overwhelmed by the accelerated development of the city.
How to make the city pleasant for city dwellers?
How to get them to reclaim the outdoor space they had to desert during periods of confinement?
What are the new friendly places to live?
With:
Chantal Deckmyn
, architect-urban planner and anthropologist.
Author of
Reading the city - Manual for hospitality in the public space
(La Découverte Editions, Carré collection)
Léandre Guigma
, architect-urban planner, founder and co-manager of
Agence Perspective
in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
And a report by
Charlie Dupiot
in the Paris region
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The phenomenon was visible last summer and they are starting to populate the sidewalks and squares of some cities in the Paris suburbs.
It's the return of camping chairs!
Our reporter went to Place Jules Vallès in Evry, about thirty kilometers south of Paris.
Meeting with Souli, 32, Djibril, 35 and the latter's folding chair.
Djibril, 35 years old in his folding chair, place Jules Vallès in Evry in the Paris region © Charlie Dupiot
A report in Evry in the Paris region where some inhabitants find themselves on their camping chairs
Musical programming:
► All is well
- Lokua Kanza
► Burn like a fire
- As Animals
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