Café scientifique - Regional planning: towards responsible urbanism 

January 16, 2020 8:00 PM

On Thursday January 16, 2020, the Science-Actions association invites you to discuss land-use planning. The Café Scientifique "Aménagement du territoire: pour un urbanisme responsable" will be held at the MJC (espace Bartem) at 311 Faubourg Montmélian in Chambéry, starting at 8pm.

Spatial planning: for responsible urban development

Regional planning was initially conceived in terms of infrastructure, with the aim of developing the most active areas around metropolises and opening up regions that had been left behind by economic and demographic dynamism. The result has been the development of towns, freeways, urban roads, commercial zones, collective housing zones and then individual housing zones, all to the detriment of agricultural land, wetlands and biodiversity. Environmental protection has therefore logically become one of the stated objectives of regional planning. While the population of the city of Chambéry is growing at a moderate pace, the surrounding suburbs are experiencing very rapid growth. As a result of urban sprawl, journeys between home and work have become longer and more frequent. Traffic has become denser, and quality of life has suffered as a result. Improving residents' quality of life is therefore one of the objectives of regional planning. So how can Savoie accommodate 60,000 new inhabitants by 2040? By continuing to urbanize the Geneva/Grenoble axis and relegating "natural" areas to non-skiable mountain zones? Or is a different kind of town and country planning possible?

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