Tag: Cities
Access to digital: when cities create tailor-made third places
In Agen, Internet access for all “Fighting against the digital divide” and “creating a network of digital third places”: these are two of the 120 commitments of the mayor of…
electricity gradually back in cities after giant blackout
In Pakistan, electricity is back on Tuesday, January 24, in most cities, a day after a huge blackout that occurred in a large part of this country of 220 million…
Gymnasiums, swimming pools… Our ranking of the best sportingly equipped cities
1. Digne-les-Bains: a return to sport program The figures are clear: the agglomeration community of Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) comes out on top for swimming pools and bowling alleys as well as…
Is the underground the future of cities?
An article from the special issue of L’Express “Find the city that suits you” In order to accommodate more and more people in the cities, it was long believed that…
Cherbourg, Aurillac… The secrets of the safest cities in France
An article from the special issue of L’Express “Find the city that suits you” The statistics of the Ministry of the Interior are formal. In the peaceful agglomeration of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin,…
Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, among the worst cities in terms of quality of life
More than three years after the start of the economic crisis, in October 2019, Lebanon still does not see the end of the tunnel and the daily life of the…
Between cooperation and rivalries: cities and regions, the new French fractures
Over the past decade, the world of territories has undergone profound changes with the extension of metropolitan status in 2014, the reform of the map of regions in 2015 and,…
Montpellier, Orléans, Thonon, Soissons and Chartres: five examples of “smart cities”
An article from the special issue of L’Express “Find the city that suits you” Montpellier A win-win program. Last January, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole announced the ten winners of its second…
Less shop vacancy in Utrecht cities too: ‘People still want to come and have a look in real life’
Utrecht – Retail vacancy rates fell sharply throughout the Netherlands in 2022, and the situation was no different in the province of Utrecht. For example, in Utrecht, Amersfoort and Veenendaal,…
How medium-sized cities rely on culture to attract inhabitants of metropolises
Laval (Mayenne), November 19, 2022. Residents are discovering the face and new uses of the former Crédit Foncier, converted into a third place opening onto a garden. The building, renamed…