2023-10-08 17:19:41
The “quarter-hour city”, the chronotopia of buildings, gentle densification, or even transitional urban planning can be discovered in Oliver Marin’s work. ANDBZ/ANDBZ/ABACA
FIGARO DEMAIN – Climate change and environmental issues require us to renovate on a large scale and build differently. This is what Olivier Marin explains in The city moves and transforms.
Do you know the concept of the quarter-hour city, the chronotopia of buildings, gentle densification, transitional urban planning? So many themes to discover in the book Urban planning tomorrow which has just been published by Apogée Editions Olivier Marin, real estate and housing journalist for the Figaro group. The city moves and transforms, as the subtitle of the work indicates, to respond to the challenges of the present and future times.
“Climate change and environmental issues require us to renovate on a large scale and build differently.t, explains this expert on the subject. We also need to limit urban sprawl, densify, reuse existing buildings, recycle buildings, bring new life to vacant places. Post-Covid, there is also the awareness of better responding to new needs.» To illustrate his point, the author has selected in this opus around thirty radio chronicles from the show “Urban planning tomorrow» which he held from 2020 to 2023, on France Inter…
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