The metropolis inside/out. Learning from the Greater Paris Region

Overview & Synopsis

The TOD-IS-RUR Innovative Training Network (ITN) has set up an interdisciplinary, international and intersectoral network to make significant research contributions to the scientific and societal challenges in countering urban sprawl in Europe. The aim of the network is to transform an urban, undifferentiated and model-based approach to TOD into a grounded, interdisciplinary rural-urban approach, fully integrating the social and environmental issues underpinning the relationships between mobility and urbanization. Within this framework, the Greater Paris Studio, held in april 2022 and entitled "The Metropolis inside/out" was an intensive four-day event that aimed to clarify, discuss and understand the research questions in context. This written and visual book gathers the conferences, fieldworks (walking, fiction, photography), seminars (Institut Paris Région, Atelier Parisien d'URbanisme, Architecture Recherche Engagement Post-carbone) that were delivered and implemented during this studio. It formally documents a collective reflexion, opening perspectives for further research.