Dominique Lorrain

With environmental urgency facing us everywhere, innovative urban projects to reduce pollution and waste are emerging around the world. But how useful are these experiences on a global scale? Is it possible to make a town durable without being detrimental to its surroundings? This book sets out to explore these questions.

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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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Confronting the theory of chaos defending that very large cities are ungovernable, the authors attempt to show how these XXL cities work and are at the forefront of globalization.

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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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