24 April 2023 - Par La Grande Conversation
Fewer Parisians, but more Greater Parisians: density in the Île de France
Paris lost 75,000 inhabitants between 2014 and 2020. How can we interpret this decline in the population of Paris? Should we be worried? No, says Jean-Louis Missika, who was deputy mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning and Greater Paris, because Paris intra-muros is only a part of the urban unit that forms the real living environment of the inhabitants, which is still growing. So, it's not an exodus or a hemorrhage, but a question of density. Faced with the overdensity of Paris (the densest city in Europe), the diversity of situations in the rest of the urban unit invites us to rethink urbanisation policies.