Carlos Moreno
Colombian-born French scientist and urbanist at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, known for proposing the '15-minute city'. Author of The 15-Minute City (2024); his site collects his essays and coverage of his work in French, English, Spanish and Italian.
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Their wordsPrioritising proximity to services is crucial for building resilience in the current housing crisis and urban challenges.
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Proxilience is emerging as a central urban strategy for strengthening cities' resilience.
Their words"Proxilience", or the geographical economy of sustainable proximity, is emerging as a central urban strategy for strengthening cities' resilience in today's systemic challenges.
- 6 years earlier
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Their wordsL'horizon urbain de la mobilité est aujourd'hui en effervescence, par l'irruption d'un nouveau paradigme, celui de la convergence des modes de déplacement urbain, dans le « transport à la demande », « mobilité complète » ou « déplacement porte à porte » pour utiliser trois dénominations d'un même mouvement qui se profile à l'avenir.
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Their wordsA l'horizon des prochaines années, l'IA et son incarnation dans ce secteur amèneront aussi, leur contribution - et pas la moindre - avec l'intégration dans la vie urbaine des voitures et navettes autonomes et électriques.
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Their wordsLe premier enseignement, et de taille, est l'impératif pour les villes de devenir en grandeur nature, des villes-plateformes, qui soient capables d'héberger, expérimenter et offrir des nouvelles dispositions, voire imaginer d'autres régulations pour rendre possible une très grande diversité de nouveaux modèles d'usage et les modèles économiques qui en découlent.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIntrinsically, the city is probably more durable than any other socio-territorial structure.
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Their wordsThe industrial revolution in the nineteenth century, the consolidation of nation-states during the first half of the twentieth century, the emergence of digital revolution in the twenty-first century, and state governance crises that seem to follow one another go hand in hand with the development of the world's urbanisation and its global megalopolisation.
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The emergence of new temporalities in human life has become irreversible across the planet.
Their wordsNew temporality is now part of people lives and this emergence has become irreversible across the planet.
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsC'est aussi, dans cette approche transverse, que nous pouvons comprendre l'impératif d'imaginer des nouveaux modèles économiques de l'usage et parmi eux déplacer le coût du transport public massif de l'usager vers d'autres secteurs.
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Their wordsC'est le sens de la voie incitative, qui deviendra inéluctable, d'une forme de gratuité totale ou partielle pour les usagers.
- 7 weeks earlier
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No city can develop without integrating economic, social, and ecological value into its roadmap.
Their wordsNo city in the world can develop without integrating in its roadmap new indicators regarding each measure taken without considering a triplet which has become inseparable: economical, social and ecological value.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsThe digital revolution, in particular, is profoundly changing the urban phenomenon throughout the world.
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Their wordsTechnology is therefore undeniably a lever for transforming human lives.
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Their wordsThis hybridization between the physical, social and digital world offers us new and powerful capabilities in everyday actions. It also carries with it an enormous potential to transform urban life, since it allows us to leave the physical world in order to reinvent it, through the digital world and the social use that is made of it, by offering entirely new uses and services.