VINCI - 2008 annual report

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02.04.2008 INVENTING TOMORROW’S CITIES TODAY
The role of The City Factory is to stimulate
collective thinking on urban development
issues. Initiated by VINCI, the think-tank
brings together a wide variety of stakeholders
–elected officials, public-sector managers,
academics, urban development specialists and
private operators – who compare their points
of view and pool their expertise in an informal
setting conducive to discussion. Two seminars
were organised in 2008. The first was devoted
to mobility in the city and the development
of intermodality, a forward-looking urban
transport concept geared to combining the
various transport modes rather than promoting
competition between them. The second
focused on the greater Paris area and compared
transport infrastructure projects and
the challenges of regional development.