Paris community action

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Paris.

News

Video

Networks and sustainability initiatives

• Hyper Voisins on facebook.com (fr), added 14:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Community involvement

www.budgetparticipatif.paris.fr/ - co-construisons-paris, «Madame la maire, j'ai une idée»

Food activism

AgroCité, designed to introduce and support the dynamics of urban agriculture and provide support for the cultural and educational activities related to the R-URBAN project, currently emerging in the city of Colombes. The unit consists of three parts:

• an area for activities related to nature and agriculture
• an area for community gardening
• an 'AgroLab' specialising in experimenting with intensive organic agricultural production

Jardins partagés, Paris.fr - V'île Fertile

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

La REcyclerie

Sharing

Maps: google.com/maps

Community currencies activism

Une monnaie pour Paris !

Sustainable transport activism

• Wikipedia:Transport in Paris#Public transportation

Walking:

Paris contains a much more contiguously walkable structure than both New York City and London^[1]

Cycling activism

• Paris en Selle, L'association qui met du vélo dans Paris
• Vélib' Métropole

From Wikipedia:Vélib'

Vélib' Métropole is a large-scale public bicycle sharing system in Paris, France. The system encompasses more than 16,000 bikes and 1,400 stations. The name Vélib' is a portmanteau of the French words vélo ("bicycle") and liberté ("freedom").

From Wikipedia:Cycling in Paris

Cycling is a common means of transportation, sport, and recreation in Paris, France. As of 2021, about 15% of trips in the city are made by bicycle, taking place on over 1,000 km (620 mi) of cycling paths. The Tour de France, the largest sporting event in cycling, finishes on the Champs-Élysées. Four major recreational cycling routes—EuroVelo 3, Avenue Verte, the Seine à Vélo, and the Veloscenic—pass by Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Urban sustainability

A car-free day in Paris

atelier d'architecture autogérée / studio for self-managed architecture (aaa) is a collective platform which conducts explorations, actions and research concerning urban mutations and cultural, social and political emerging practices in the contemporary city.

aaa acts through 'urban tactics', encouraging the participation of inhabitants at the self-management of disused urban spaces, overpassing contradictions and stereotypes by proposing nomad and reversible projectsf, initiating interstitial practices which explore the potential of contemporary city (in terms of population, mobility, temporality).

It is by micro-political acting that we want to participate in making the city more ecological and more democratic, to make the space of proximity less dependent on top-down processes and more accessible to its users. The 'self-managed architecture' is an architecture of relationships, processes and agencies of persons, desires, skills and know-hows. Such an architecture does not correspond to a liberal practice but asks for new forms of association and collaboration, based on exchange and reciprocity and involving all those interested (individuals, organizations, institutions), whatever is their scale.

Our architecture is at the same time political and poetic as it aims above all to 'create relationships between worlds'.

Environment quality

Airparif, non-profit accredited by the Ministry of Environment to monitor the air quality in Paris and in the Ile de France region (the capital city region).

Open spaces

• Wikipedia:List of parks and gardens in Paris, Promenade plantée or the Coulée verte (French for green course) is a 4.7 km (2.9 mi) elevated linear park built on top of obsolete railway infrastructure in the 12th arrondissement. It was inaugurated in 1993.

Citizens data initiative

Open Data Paris

About Paris

Past events

• September 27, 2015. A Day Without Cars in Paris!^[2]

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,175,601 residents as of 2018, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres (41 square miles).

The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the region and province of Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated population of 12,174,880, or about 18 percent of the population of France as of 2017.

See also

• Topic overview: Networks, Community involvement, Food activism, Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle, Sharing, Community currencies activism, Sustainable transport activism, Cycling activism, Urban sustainability, Environment quality activism, Open spaces activism, Citizens data initiative

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