Tag: regions
In Aix-en-Provence, The Camp comes back to life
It is a resurrection. In great financial difficulty, The Camp, designed to imagine and develop the smart city of tomorrow, was taken over last July by Kevin Polizzi. Boss of…
LiveMentor, Laou… These start-ups that have chosen to move to the provinces
Aurore Thibaud, co-founder of Laou, in Limoges “My driving force to create Laou? A form of revolt in the face of a double observation. On the one hand, people force…
European Capitals of Culture: Lille, an example to follow
Paris (1989), Avignon (2000), Lille (2004) and Marseille-Provence (2013). Does this list mean anything to you? However, it brings together the names of the four French territories which have won…
Doubs: when a hot road causes controversy
It all started in 2020, when Michel Morel regained his post as mayor, which he had held between 1989 and 2020. The opportunity for this retired methods technician, formerly of…
La Halle Tropisme revives a district of Montpellier
On this former military wasteland, reign mobile homes and even an old bus, used alternately as play areas for children, pop-up shop or discotheque. A little further on, a 10,000…
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…
In Peru, the state of emergency extends to the capital Lima and other regions
42 people have died in the last weeks of protests. The demonstrators are still demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the dissolution of Congress and immediate elections. In response…
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,…
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…