The observatory of the green cities

How better to dread the stakes in the green city in France? With what current problems are the French cities confronted regarding management of

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Co-dividual

House Vision Tokyo 2016

Tokyo

After the success of the first edition in 2013, the exhibition "House Vision Tokyo" is back during the summer. Organized always by Kenya Hara,

Peri-urban aera

A model of arrangement to be renewed

Often slandered, but today, objects of numerous attentions, the peri-urban aeras assure a big part of the homebuilding in France. The report "Bonnet"  submitted last January to the

Lectures urbaines

Bordeaux (33)

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Ecological transition and quality of the housing environment

Conseil éconolique, social et environnemental

The Economic, social and environmental Council adopted, on April 17th of this year, an entitled notice " The quality of the housing environment, the

Case Study House # 9

Turf Town, 1983

Glenn Hwoard Small

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Circular economy # 1

The courpet

t, single-use and recyclable boat

The courpet is an old cargo ship of the gabare type, single-use, rowed and steered by a long tail oar, used in the

Climate in Aquitaine

Planning for action

The report on climate change in New Aquitaine published by AcclimaTerra is a pioneering work in France that describes the impacts of climate

Ni vu ni connu # 1

The first green façade

[ 1973 ] Jacques Famery imagined with the Italian architect Andréa Branzi (Archizoom), the first proposal for a green facade for a residential building

Ni vu ni connu # 2

Autonomous housing project

In the early 1970s, Alexander Pike developed the concept of Autonomous Housing, which, through its ambitions of comfort and technological integration, contrasts with

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Like a tree in the city

Carbon storage

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Water sanitation status

An alarming report

"The world is facing an invisible water quality crisis that reduces by a third the potential economic growth of heavily polluted areas and

Unseen, unknown #

Goodbye to flush toilet

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When the American counterculture of the 1970s invented the selective collection and recycling of urine. Coordinated by thethe Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) in

Urbanising in place

Building the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Urbanising in place aims to explore how to reinvent and reconfigure agriculture and food crop practices, threatened by rapid urbanization, in what we

Climate investments

Progressing, but can do better

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French timber sector

Economic weight

The French timber industry, half of whose added value is in the construction sector, now has an economic evaluation tool available online. The latest

Unseen unknown # 6

The Feuillette House

English veThe straw house built by the engineer Émile Feuillette in 1920 is the oldest known and existing straw insulated building in Europe.

Back to literature

Bioregion and public space

Two works for this new literary season, both of which are presented as a teaching manual, the first one coordinated by Ludovic Duhem

The metabolic house

William Stumpf

Wishing to offer an alternative to the consumerist concept of American baby boomer kitchen, William Stumpf, a designer best known for his research

Cooling the cities

A health impact

A study conducted as part of the European GoGreenRoutes project concludes that increasing tree cover in major European cities to at least 30%

Blue planet

World Water Day 2023

The risk of a global freshwater crisis is "imminent", warns the United Nations (UN), in its introduction to the Water Conference which opens