Request — Transition to sustainability and rehabilitation of existing neighbourhoods

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The aim of the REQUEST project is to set up an interdisciplinary and cross-border facility and team around the evaluation, monitoring, valorisation and support of projects in rehabilitated neighbourhoods in France and Switzerland. This project will enrich the skills developed so far in monitoring and evaluating sustainable (new) neighbourhoods, integrating the issue of existing neighbourhoods to renovate and revitalise, enhancing the feedback of Swiss and French experiences and promoting common understanding and practices across the border. Indeed, there is a regulatory gap in spatial planning for existing neighbourhoods and their upgrading in relation to the different sustainability criteria (except for sectoral technical areas such as noise). Although rehabilitation policies exist particularly in France, they relate only to a limited number of neighbourhoods whose economic and social situation is rather difficult for the inhabitants, whereas a common challenge for all communities concerns all neighbourhoods: city centres, outlying districts... Thus, REQUEST’s objective is to broaden the scope of analysis to also target less emblematic neighbourhoods and, in particular, urban rehabilitation projects and the transition to sustainability, which raises a number of challenges.

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