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Transforming Cities Through Temporary UrbanismDeveloping ‘Transient Urbanism’ as a New Urban and Real Estate Strategy: The Case of the French National Railway Company (SNCF)

Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism: Developing ‘Transient Urbanism’ as a New Urban... [The French national railway company (SNCF), the second largest real estate owner in France, has been using its properties for temporary artistic uses since the 1980s. From an initially alternative and pragmatic practice, temporary occupation has gradually become a strategic new activity used by the company to meet urban and real estate challenges. In 2015, the creation of SNCF Immobilier—a new real estate branch within SNCF—marked a turning point in the company’s activity. SNCF Immobilier allows cultural operators to take up temporary occupation of some of its vacant sites, before the arrival of the permanent urban project. Called ‘transient urbanism’, this approach refers to temporary projects carried out specifically on sites intended to host an urban project, in order to initiate the urban transformation and to foreshadow the arrival of the project. This new concept of transient urbanism illustrates the shift from temporary occupation in urban planning and real estate practices, involving multiple strategic issues and informing new reflection by owners on the transformation of their property. This growing appropriation by public and private actors contributes to the dissemination of transient urbanism as reproducible good practice, in the context of keen interest in temporary projects over the past five years in the Greater Paris area.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Transforming Cities Through Temporary UrbanismDeveloping ‘Transient Urbanism’ as a New Urban and Real Estate Strategy: The Case of the French National Railway Company (SNCF)

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Andres, Lauren; Zhang, Amy Y.
Pinard, Juliette
Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism — Dec 19, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-61752-3
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141 –154
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10.1007/978-3-030-61753-0_10
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Abstract

[The French national railway company (SNCF), the second largest real estate owner in France, has been using its properties for temporary artistic uses since the 1980s. From an initially alternative and pragmatic practice, temporary occupation has gradually become a strategic new activity used by the company to meet urban and real estate challenges. In 2015, the creation of SNCF Immobilier—a new real estate branch within SNCF—marked a turning point in the company’s activity. SNCF Immobilier allows cultural operators to take up temporary occupation of some of its vacant sites, before the arrival of the permanent urban project. Called ‘transient urbanism’, this approach refers to temporary projects carried out specifically on sites intended to host an urban project, in order to initiate the urban transformation and to foreshadow the arrival of the project. This new concept of transient urbanism illustrates the shift from temporary occupation in urban planning and real estate practices, involving multiple strategic issues and informing new reflection by owners on the transformation of their property. This growing appropriation by public and private actors contributes to the dissemination of transient urbanism as reproducible good practice, in the context of keen interest in temporary projects over the past five years in the Greater Paris area.]

Published: Dec 19, 2020

Keywords: Transient urbanism; Transitional urban development; Temporary use; Real estate; SNCF; Greater paris

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