Eric Verdeil

The spread of urbanisation is heating the planet, destroying biodiversity, and making us even more vulnerable to climate change. But cities are also our common good. They are the sites of wealth creation, innovation, culture, solidarity, and resilience. This Atlas provides an unprecedented perspective on our urbanized world. 

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Cet ouvrage montre que la métropole parisienne s'apparente à une « anarchie organisée », avec ses contingences, ses rapports de forces, ses veto redoutables pour empêcher l'émergence de politiques ou bloquer leur mise en place, mais aussi ses instruments et ses données plus ou moins partagés, ses coalitions stabilisées et ses projets politiques.

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Beirut, Cairo, Algiers, Istanbul: have they become ungovernable? Are they too dense, too polluted, too unequal? By delving into the fabric of their networks and institutions, this book shows that the major difficulties of these towns reflect not the lack of government, but rather its specific forms.

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