LE FIGARO. - The government is working on a decentralization project.
Is this the right approach for you?
Jean-Christophe FROMANTIN. - The very concept of decentralization is obsolete. In a networked world, the geography of territories must be reinvented. A recent Cevipof study recalled that 84% of French people want to live in medium-sized towns or villages. Politicians must respond to this expectation and put the network of medium-sized cities back at the heart of the social project. They will become the new centralities! Medium-sized cities have a potential inversely proportional to the ambition we have for them. We must open up metropolises, stop hyper-densification and allow everyone to live where they want. We concentrated everything in a few metropolises, causing an asymmetrical development of France, with the consequences, a cultural impoverishment, a housing crisis and an unprecedented territorial divide. We created
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