Books
In partnership with the éditions Wildproject, Metropolitan Trails are developing a wide range of works ranging from guidebooks to art books and travel narratives.
Le Sentier du Grand Paris
Le sentier métropolitain du Grand Paris est un itinéraire de randonnée pédestre de 615 km qui articule la petite couronne des faubourgs historiques à la grande couronne des villes nouvelles.
Bassins versants et histoires d’eaux, ports et industrie, rail et route, urbanisme et agriculture, hip hop et chasses royales, cinéma et histoire populaire… Issu de 3 ans de repérages publics, ce guide se propose de raconter le Grand Paris en 153 histoires localisées.
Bien au-delà des «bonnes adresses de la banlieue», ce guide invite à découvrir en profondeur, dans toutes ses dimensions, la plus grande mégapole d’Europe.
Cet ouvrage se destine à la fois aux randonneurs qui veulent parcourir le sentier en 39 jours de marche; aux étudiants et aux urbanistes en quête d’une grande dégustation métropolitaine; à tou· te· s les Parisien· ne· s curieux· ses de mieux connaître la gigaville qu’elles· ils habitent sans le savoir – et de prendre part aux débats sur son avenir.
Face aux défis de souveraineté alimentaire et de descente énergétique auxquels sont confrontées les métropoles, ce sentier invite à prendre la mesure du Grand Paris à l’échelle de nos corps. Pour préparer l’avenir d’un territoire, il faut le connaître et le pratiquer !
« Un chantier unique en son genre. »
Le Monde
« Un projet d’envergure ! »
Radio Nova
« Le Sentier du Grand Paris pourra-t-il mettre fin à des siècles de malentendu entre Paris et ses banlieues ? »
The Guardian
Textes
Paul-Hervé Lavessière - Denis Moreau - Baptiste Lanaspeze - Jens Denissen
Photographies
Pierre-Yves Brunaud - Florence Joubert - Laurent Villeret - Eric Garault
Le Sentier du Grand Paris est financé principalement par la Métropole du Grand Paris.
14 x 22 cm
280 p., 20€
ISBN 978-2-381-140-018
Paru le 8 octobre 2020
Planet Banlieue
Lanaspeze & Lavessière
Genesis and behind the scenes of the "Metropolitan Paths", urban and poetic infrastructures
"... while we wait for the city of the 22nd century, there is nothing to do but walk, and nowhere else to do so but in the folds of our megalopolises, where the Earth comes everywhere to forgive us and, in the cracks of abandoned roads, to offer us the redemption of its little aromatic plants. »
A 5-year walking conversation between a publisher and an urban planner, featuring e-mails, Facebook posts, Google Earth maps, movie screenshots and clips, poems, wordcapes, manifestos, tributes, logbooks, a fragment of a new gospel and a draft of a speech by the UN president in 2040.
This work was produced as part of the "Metropolitan Pathways" showcase produced for the Connectivity (2017-2020) exhibition at the Mucem.
Sentiers Métropolitains is a structure created in 2014 by Baptiste Lanaspeze (publisher, founder of Wildproject editions) and Paul-Hervé Lavessière (geographer-urban planner), which aims to develop hiking routes in the world's metropolises.
Les Sentiers Métropolitains was awarded the 2013 Urban Planning Medal by the Academy of Architecture.
Limited edition (100 copies)
Published in May 2018
15 euros
232 pages - 12 x 19 cm
Exclusively on sale at the Mucem bookstore.
The Revolution of Paris
Paul-Hervé Lavessière
Two friends went to visit their capital on foot.
They didn't go to the Eiffel Tower or the Musée du Louvre. In a 6-day walk designed by the author, they reached Saint-Denis, Créteil and Versailles through 37 communes and 4 departments (92, 93, 94, 78).
Along the terminus of the Parisian metro and other RER stations, this journey into the heart of Greater Paris sketches a new geography and proposes a new way of living the capital.
"I highly recommend this travel journal to our listeners."
Philippe Meyer, France Culture
"A real lesson in urban planning."
Delphine Bürkli, Mayor of the 9th district, President of the Haussmann Prize 2015
"What makes this story attractive is Lavessière's absolutely unprejudiced and totally benevolent view of the landscape and the people. A real journey."
Sibylle Vincendon, Liberation
"A book to slip into your backpack!"
Muriel Fauriat, Pilgrim
Paul-Hervé Lavessière, urban planner-geographer born in 1987 in Charente, is the co-founder of the Agence des Sentiers Métropolitains. He designed the 130 km of the itinerary of the Paris Revolution.
192 p., 20 euros
Release February 2014