The making of grand Paris : metropolitan urbanism in the twenty-first century / Theresa Enright.

By: Enright, Theresa [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Urban and Industrial EnvironmentsPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2016Manufacturer: United States of America : Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Copyright date: ©2016Description: viii, 313 pages : maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262034692 (hardcover)Subject(s): City planning -- France -- Paris | City and towns | City and towns -- France -- Paris | City and towns -- GrowthLOC classification: HT169.F72 E57 2016
Contents:
Part I: Envisioning the Unified City. Paris and/Is Its Suburb -- The Shared Dream of Grand Pari(s).
Part II: Connecting the Networked City. Transit Debates and the Contested Regime of Metromobility -- The Mobilizing Myths of the Grand Paris Express.
Part III: Governing the Competitive City. A Thousand Layers of Governance -- Metropolitan Governance and Global City Productivism -- Conclusion: Grand Urbanism in Perspective.
Subject: A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the building of today's networked global city. In 2007 the French government announced the "Grand Paris" initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation system, the Grand Paris Express, would connect the affluent city proper with the low-income suburbs; streamlined institutions would replace fragmented governance structures. Grand Paris is more than a redevelopment plan; it is a new paradigm for urbanism. In this first English-language examination of Grand Paris, Theresa Enright offers a critical analysis of the early stages of the project, considering whether it can achieve its twin goals of economic competitiveness and equality. Enright argues that by orienting the city around growth and marketization, Grand Paris reproduces the social and spatial hierarchies it sets out to address. For example, large expenditures for the Grand Paris Express are made not for the public good but to increase the attractiveness of the region to private investors, setting off a real estate boom, encouraging gentrification, and leaving many residents still unable to get from here to there. Enright describes Grand Paris as an example of what she calls "grand urbanism," large-scale planning that relies on infrastructural megaprojects to reconfigure urban regions in pursuit of speculative redevelopment. Democracy and equality suffer under processes of grand urbanism. Given the logic of commodification on which Grand Paris is based, these are likely to suffer as the project moves forward.--backcover. https://www.bookdepository.com/Making-Grand-Paris-Theresa-Enright/9780262034692
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"Urban and industrial environments
Series editor: Robert Gottlieb, Henry R.Luce Professor of Urbam and Environment Policy, Occidental College."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index (pages 289-313).

Part I: Envisioning the Unified City. Paris and/Is Its Suburb -- The Shared Dream of Grand Pari(s).

Part II: Connecting the Networked City. Transit Debates and the Contested Regime of Metromobility -- The Mobilizing Myths of the Grand Paris Express.

Part III: Governing the Competitive City. A Thousand Layers of Governance -- Metropolitan Governance and Global City Productivism -- Conclusion: Grand Urbanism in Perspective.

A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the building of today's networked global city.

In 2007 the French government announced the "Grand Paris" initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation system, the Grand Paris Express, would connect the affluent city proper with the low-income suburbs; streamlined institutions would replace fragmented governance structures. Grand Paris is more than a redevelopment plan; it is a new paradigm for urbanism. In this first English-language examination of Grand Paris, Theresa Enright offers a critical analysis of the early stages of the project, considering whether it can achieve its twin goals of economic competitiveness and equality.

Enright argues that by orienting the city around growth and marketization, Grand Paris reproduces the social and spatial hierarchies it sets out to address. For example, large expenditures for the Grand Paris Express are made not for the public good but to increase the attractiveness of the region to private investors, setting off a real estate boom, encouraging gentrification, and leaving many residents still unable to get from here to there.

Enright describes Grand Paris as an example of what she calls "grand urbanism," large-scale planning that relies on infrastructural megaprojects to reconfigure urban regions in pursuit of speculative redevelopment. Democracy and equality suffer under processes of grand urbanism. Given the logic of commodification on which Grand Paris is based, these are likely to suffer as the project moves forward.--backcover.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Making-Grand-Paris-Theresa-Enright/9780262034692