Tag: Urban
Utrecht honors urban planner Riek Bakker with Silver City Medal
In 1994, Bakker faced an enormous challenge to come up with a design for a new neighborhood. 30,000 homes were to be built in the area between Vleuten-De Meern and…
Heat wave: cities are suffocating because of too many urban heat islands
News Published on 08/24/2023 at 10:54 a.m. Updated 08/24/2023 at 10:54 a.m. Reading 2 mins. With an exceptional heat wave in August, France is suffocating in cities because of heat…
Yamê, a new Franco-Cameroonian phenomenon of urban music
Parachuted onto the French-speaking rap scene via songs with an identity as original as they are marked, Yamê has quickly become a phenomenon of urban music. Focus on a self-taught…
“The Olympic Games produce a quite singular urban project in the history of world urbanism”
Historically, the Olympic Games have always given rise to major urban projects. Paris 2024 is no exception to the rule, even if the organizing city is building much less than…
Creator Urban Chess Courts has a new chess mission: ‘More girl power is needed’
Pawns, knights, bishops, rooks, a queen and king: in chess, the pieces are often central. Nevertheless, fanatic chess player and Urban Chess founder Jesús Medina Molina wants to look beyond…
In the spotlight: urban violence still in the spotlight
On most of them, photos of rioters at night, lit by flames…” Change everything before it’s too late “, title Le Figaro Magazine while Paris Match speaks of a France…
In the spotlight: a week after the urban riots, the French press takes a step back
And it is the geography of these violences on which lean The cross And The worldbased on this observation : the map of the 2023 riots is no longer that…
Urban violence in France: Gerald Darmanin closes the door to any reform of the 2017 law on the refusal to comply
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin was heard for more than an hour on Wednesday evening before the Senate Law Commission on the episode of violence that has shaken the country in…
the protection of sites “slightly reinforced” with urban violence
The “security of the infrastructures” of the 2024 Olympics in Paris has been “slightly reinforced”, assured Monday the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castera after several days of urban violence in…