Greater Paris and its lessons for metropolitan strategic planning

摘要

>A new regional development programme emerged for the Greater Paris region (Ile-de-France), in the decade from 2005 to 2015. Previously, the years from 1965 to 1970 had set guidelines for developments over four decades, including new towns, airports, a new commuter rail system (the RER network) and with a strategy to boost Paris’ financial sector and its military–industrial complex in the city’s western suburb. In recent years, a new and coherent project has emerged with the creation of large, specialized economic zones, the densification of inner suburbs and the construction of four new Metro lines to double the length of the existing subway network. However, the urban integration of office space and retail properties, together with socio-spatial inequalities, has remained unaddressed. This article proposes a critical reading of the planning process in Greater Paris and examines the new forms of strategic planning at the metropolitan level.