For the City of Tomorrow

Reflections, Innovations and Outlook for the Future

This book offers a retrospective of 20 years of development operations, highlighting the key moments and questions that have shaped the evolution of this discipline. Jean Audouin, basing his account on the observation of the work of the Club Ville Aménagement and in-depth interviews, explores the innovations that have influenced the making of the city over the past two decades. He highlights the transformations of a constantly changing profession. Despite this freeze-frame, the book emphasizes that urban planning is intrinsically oriented towards the future, thus inviting the exploration of new perspectives and the opening up of new territories. By focusing on the Club Ville Aménagement as a laboratory where new modes of urban production emerge, the book presents the foundations of a future to be built.