Your summer in Metropolis! — Investigation

Summer has special features compared to other seasons: long days, closure of services, increase in temperatures, increase in free time. Other uses take place (organisation of free time, work, living in public spaces, etc.) and make summer a time marker. Summer also reveals inequalities in access to leisure and holidays. The challenge is to take this particular time into account, by articulating all public policies:culture, sport, mobility, urban planning, etc. Indeed, the Métropole Européenne de Lille has adopted a metropolitan strategy in the field of time policy, implemented by the Bureau des temps. To carry out a temporal policy is to contribute to improving the articulation of the life times of citizens (social, professional, leisure, study, etc.) by putting in place measures to structure the rhythms of the territory (shifting working hours, concierge services, administrative opening hours, etc.). The organisation of annual events are planned in order to raise the awareness of elected representatives, agents, actors in the territory and the general public of temporal problems and thus advance the consideration of this variable in metropolitan projects. The next highlight will be devoted to the summer, December 3, 2019.