Highway across the city : the example of Cergy-Pontoise :

The heavy transportation infrastructures, which have been built since the 60's are know rejected by the nearby urban areas.

What used to be a symbol of modernity « high speed, fluidity, efficiency », now embodies « urban cut, pollution, noise pollution, saturation of th traffic, waste of space, and urban spreading ». Everywhere in Europe, the whole concept of "circulation" has to be rethink.

Through the study of Cergy-Pontoise's crossing, the 2008 session offers to young urbanists, engineers, architects, economists and landscape designers, to rethink the design and the role of heavy infrastructures in the urban landscape : questionning the "object", and its uses ; imagining its possible transformation in order to adapt it to new transportation needs, while taking into account its articulation to the crossed territories, and respecting sustainable development objectives.

Partners :

• AFTRP
• Urban Community of Cergy-Pontoise
• Département of Val d’Oise
• National Superior  School of Arts of Paris-Cergy
• Région Ile-de-France
• Regional direction of Cultural Affairs (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles)
• Ministery of l’Ecology, de l’Energy, Sustainable Development and Land Planning.
• University of Cergy-Pontoise