Making sure Paris has a world ranking

Major world cities compete to attract people and jobs and innovation. Paris, which was once considered to be the centre of the world, is still one of the most 'un-missable' cities on the planet. However, the current attraction of the French capital, which includes the entire Paris basin, has its beginnings in a gamble made more than twenty years ago. In order to compete, one has to enhance all the aspects of Paris. Frédéric Gilli and Paul Chemetov, an unlikely team brought together by the interministerial delegation report on the development and the competitiveness of regions, give a global view of an effervescent urban planet, and a Paris region which is undeniably very productive, but whose future strategy is not sufficiently structured. The Paris region deserves to be better understood. The speakers suggest this can be best achieved by recognising the processes at work and concentrating on its strong points in order to target actions which need to be addressed first.