"Mobility issues? Public transport!
Housing crisis? Make everyone a landlord!
Urban sprawl? Fight it!
Proximity encourages community!
Architecture makes the city!"
These beliefs hail from another age, a midcentury postwar France that still believed itself rural and set up a dichotomy of city and countryside. They ignore the realities of an urban, mobile, connected 21st century and are ill-suited to environmental demands. Enshrined as dogma, they nevertheless continue to govern cities and territories. Jean-Marc Offner deconstructs them one by one to help us rethink the city of tomorrow.