By Pierre Arnold, civil engineer and urban planner, project manager at urbaMonde – France (September 2020 to June 2025). Pierre is passionate about social housing production and management and is the author of several articles on the subject as well as the book Habitat en Mouvement (2015), available online:   https://habitatenmouvement.tumblr.com/livre   Cities and their spaces are often conceived and idealized from above but built from below: by the people who migrate there,

By Carlos Moreno, Scientific Director of the ETI Chair, IAE Paris Sorbonne, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, Member of the French Academy of Technologies, the American Academy of Housing and Communities, and Sigma Xi, the international honor society for scientific research. 1. A multidimensional housing crisis In 2024, according to estimates by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), approximately 1.1 billion people worldwide will be living in precario

By the Executive Board of AdP - Villes en Développement Presentation of the Urban Thinkers Campus: “Reinventing Housing”   The choice of the Familistère de Guise was no coincidence.  Built in the 19th century by the visionary industrialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin, the Familistère was much more than a collection of workers' dwellings. A veritable “social palace,” it foreshadowed a form of integrated collective housing that combined dwellings, community facilities, and space