By Anne BURLAT, urban planner and architect While in France, the issue of the  right to housing  raises issues about social housing and its ability to respond to a variety of situations, in urban areas in the Global South, it immediately conjures up the iconic image of the  slum . This word has almost disappeared from scientific articles seeking to clarify the subject (precarious, informal, spontaneous housing, etc.). It returned to the forefront of the French scene in Decemb

By Vanille Guichard, Urban Architect, Director of Urban Planning and Renewal, and Clarisse Kinuthia, Project Manager for Urban Planning and Development, City of Koungou. The youngest department in France, Mayotte is an island, a territory limited and constrained by its geography. Overlapping social, environmental, security, and health issues complicate the action that is nevertheless necessary in view of the successive crises affecting the territory. Among these issues, the q

By Bruno Airaud, General Coordinator at the Familistère de Guise The photographs below are taken from the Album du Familistère, published by Éditions du Familistère, 2017. “ The social progress of the masses is subordinate to the progress of social provisions in architecture ”   wrote Jean-Baptiste-André Godin  in “ Le gouvernement ” in 1883. This perspective is, among other things, dedicated to housing and accommodation, and is part of a broader vision that interprets Charle