Contribution to the book "Densifier / dédensifier"
Jorat-Mézières © 2018 LAST / EPFL
The collective work "Densifier / dédensifier. Penser les campagnes urbaines", edited by Jean-Michel Léger and Béatrice Mariolle, was presented on November 20th, 2018 at the "Atelier des territoires" national meeting, on the International University Campus in Paris. Among the book’s contributions, Judith Drouilles and Emmanuel Rey propose an overview of the Swiss peripheries in a context marked by the revision of the law on territorial planning and the diffusion of the "2000-watt society" concept.
In conclusion for the "Atelier de Territoires" national meeting on the question of "the peri-urban territory, a living space" organized by the Ministry of the Cohesion of territories, the Urban-planning Construction Architecture Plan (PUCA) presented the collective valorisation work of the research program "Towards public policies of "soft" densification and intensification? Interests, limits et opportunity". The book gathers a synthesis of the research program’s five projects, as well as a dozen varied contributions about the evolution of urban countryside.
The chapter "Transition or stagnation? The future of peri-urban residential neighbourhoods in the Swiss context" presents major issues of the Swiss territorial development within a context of policy framework evolution, and then proposes several prospective visions for the transformation of peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses by 2050. This text is part of the Living Peripheries research project, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
Judith Drouilles and Emmanuel Rey, « Transition ou stagnation: L’avenir des quartiers résidentiels périurbains dans le contexte helvétique » in Jean-Michel Léger and Béatrice Mariolle (eds), "Densifier / Dédensifier - Penser les campagnes urbaines", Éditions Parenthèses, Marseille, 2018. 320 pages (ISBN 978 2 86364 342 6).