Skyline Project

Title: The skyline: an operational concept for the governance of the urban skyline in the face of the return of high-rise buildings in Paris, Lyon and London - SKYLINE

Partners: EVS (Laboratoire Environnement Ville Société), EIVP EIVP-Ville de Paris, LIRIS, AU Lyon

Allocated resources: 293 087 euros €

Start date: 2013

End date: 2016

Duration: 36 months

SKYLINE is an exploratory, collaborative and comparative research project on the political, economic and social issues of an increasingly contested dimension of the urban landscape: the skyline. The project is justified by the lack of conceptualization of the skyline, while conflicts are emerging and multiplying in European cities around the impact of the towers on the landscape. In the context of sustainable development, its mission is to build the principles of governance of this increasingly debated dimension of the urban landscape.