Innovation and sustainable urban regeneration: the Lyon Confluence project as a best practice
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2016
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The Lyon Confluence project is considered as a best practice in sustainable urban regeneration. Itis an urban regeneration project of unusual scope in Europe as it will double Lyon city’s centre and includes the redevelopment of 150 ha of land. It will create a smart and sustainable district with 25 000 employments and 16 000 residents. City planners present the project as an extension of the existing city-centre. The project started in 1995 when former Mayor Raymond Barre saw the availability of industrial land on Lyon’s central peninsula as a unique opportunity to develop a mixed-use and sustainable neighborhood that would enhance the identity of Lyon as a major city in Europe. With this paper, we analyze how the governance component of the project and the financing mechanisms have facilitated the implementation of innovative features such as the eco-renovation of a social housing building, sustainable mobility (e.g., car sharing) and the construction of positive energy buildings in partnership with the NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The Confluences regeneration project is unique in the sense that it is a smart community demonstration project: an agreement was signed in December 2011 between the Mayor of Grand Lyon, the President of NEDO: “Under this agreement advanced Japanese technology will contribute to sustainable development of the Confluence Site until 2015” (Lyon Smart Community, 2013, p. 5). The partners in this regeneration project are: Grand Lyon, SPD Lyon Confluence, NEDO, Toshiba, Bouygues Immobilier, Transdev, Grand Lyon Habitat.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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