WIT Press


How To Integrate Social And Environmental Aspects In Housing And Urban Policies: Some Experiences From France And Germany

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

72

Pages

10

Published

2004

Size

323 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SC040441

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

L. Laigle & V. Oehler

Abstract

Since the end of the twentieth century, most French and German cities have set up sustainable urban policies. In the past, German urban policies have progressively integrated environmental aspects while in France they have focussed on social issues. Today, the major stakes of urban evolution lead urban actors to reconsider the articulation between social and environmental aspects. A comparative analysis of six cities shows that they are currently experimenting with initiatives in order to achieve local priority objectives: these \“good practices” are related to land use control, planning methods, transversal approaches, and citizen participation. However, the simultaneous analysis of obstacles shows that these initiatives are slowed

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