City/Cité Chicago x Paris

These two days of meetings and visits with professionals and academics are devoted to the renewal of the urban making and city planning regarding the new environmental, social, and political challenges …. The aim is to organize professional dialogues between urban planning actors on both sides of the Atlantic, both in the field of research, public policies, and their concrete implementation (architects, project managers, civil society organizations, engineering firms, etc.) to share methods and practices and to lay the foundations for possible future international collaborations. The first day takes place at the Studio Gang and is organized with the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Great Cities Institute, the second day is dedicated to on-site visits to different neighborhoods in Chicago. 

The dialogue is based on the convergence of the municipal agendas of the cities of Paris and Chicago, which are currently revising their urban plans under the watchwords of resilience, diversity, inclusion, and climate change. This is also an opportunity to revisit Acts of Urbanism, an experimental research initiative supported by the Institut Français, at the intersection of design, urbanism, and the performing arts, which took place in June 2022 in Detroit during a week of public events, workshops, and exchanges between researchers and artists to envision new modalities for urban action. 

Thursday, October 13 – 8.30 am – 5 pm @ Studio Gang – Conferences

9.00 am | Introduction

• Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang) – video
• Yannick Tagand (Consulate General of France in Chicago)
• Emmanuel Grégoire (Mairie de Paris) – video TBC
• Teresa Córdova (UIC- Great Cities Institute)

9.15 am – 10.45 am | Session 1: Panorama and Perspectives from Paris and Chicago: New Scales and Approaches for Planning

Moderation: Teresa Córdova (UIC- Great Cities Institute)

• Jamie Simone (Deputy Commissionner – Chicago)

We Will Chicago Plan

• Erin Aleman (Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning)

ON TO 2050 Strategy

• Science Po Paris students – master of urban planning

City Planning in Paris (PLU, SCOT, SDRIF…)

• Courtney Kashima (Muse Community + Design)

New Methods and Approaches to Planning with We Will Chicago

• Marco Cremaschi (Sc Po Paris – Urban School)

The New Flexible Models of Planning: Call for Projects and Temporary Urbanism

• Marcus ZEPF (Université Paris Est-Créteil, Paris School of Urban Planning and Lab’Urba)

Temporalities and Uncertainties in Urban Planning: towards “permanent autopoetic processes”

11.00 am – 12.30 am | Session 2: Planning for Social and Spatial Justice

Moderation: Monica Chadha (Civic Projects Architecture)

• Juan Gabriel Moreno, (JGMA) TBC

Invest South-West

• Frédéric Chartier (Chartier / Dalix agency) and 2023 resident at Villa Albertine in Chicago

Thinking Communal Space : A Vehicle for Social Equity

• Kendra Freeman (Metropolitan Planning Council)

Planning for Equity with Stakeholders and Communities

• Odile Compagnon (GROWSS committee of NLCCC)

GROWSS in sync, Quality of Life Plan for North Lawndale

• Abraham Bendheim (Studio Gang)                                                         

Neighborhood Activation, A Process to Improve Public Safety Through Community-Led Design

2 pm – 3.30 pm | Session 3: Planning for Transitions

Moderation: Odile Compagnon (Odile Compagnon Architect)

• Ron Henderson (IIT Landscape Architecture + Urbanism)

The Natural History of Chicago — and its Implications

• Jennifer Buyck (Université Gustave Eiffel and Lab’Urba)

Ecological Transition and the Place of Life / Wildlife in Planning

• Nadine Roudil (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Val de Seine)

Institutional Narratives of Energy and Youth Awareness of Climate Issues

• Nicole Chavas (Greenprint Partners)                                                                                     

Advancing Equity by Investing in Urban Green Infrastructure

• Anya Sirota (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)

Towards Pluralist Engagement in Cultural Infrastructure Design

3.45 pm – 5.15 pm | Session 4: Future of Housing & Offices

Moderation: Kathleen Day (Preservation of Affordable Housing)

• Daniel Hertz (Chicago Department of Housing)

What kind of Housing will be Built in Chicago in the 2020s? Effects of Recent Reforms

• Ingrid Nappi (École des Ponts Paris Tech – Observatory of the Economy of Architecture / Ministry of Culture)

Which Future for Business Districts in an Area of Environmental and Social Transformation?

• Bertrand Vallet (Sc Po Paris – Urban School)

How Cities Support Urban Manufacturing? Old and New Forms of Production Spaces

• Francesca Artioli (Université Paris Est-Créteil, Paris School of Urban Planning and Lab’Urba )

Short-Term Rental Platforms and the Transformation of Housing: the Challenges of Regulation 

• Monica Chadha (Civic Projects Architecture)

Aspirational Housing – What is Architect and Developer’s Responsibility? How can we Create Better Places to Live for Everyone?

Friday, October 14 | On-site visits

9.00 am – 10.20 am: Woodlawn Resource Center 

10.35 am – 11.40 am: Stony Island Arts Bank 

12.10 am – 2.00 pm: Fulton East

2.15 pm – 3.25 pm: North Lawndale Love Blooms Here Plaza 

3.40 pm – 5.00 pm: Humboldt Park