It is the first district of Geneva to have been the subject of a district contract, a sort of acknowledgement of trust between the City, the inhabitants and the district’s other local stakeholders.

It is part of the Lemmens and Compas ‘sustainable neighbourhood contracts’, and takes advantage of the particular (natural) site conditions.

This section presents a history of the different community contracts implemented in the City of Geneva while explaining how they work.

This section presents a history of the different community contracts implemented in the City of Geneva while explaining how they work.

As tools of participatory democracy, community contracts enable inhabitants to collaborate with the City of Geneva to propose solutions designed to improve the quality of life within their district.

She then put her talents at the service of the City of Brussels as a project manager for neighbourhood contracts.

In her lecture, Prof. Wagner-Pacifici will discuss connections between Mathieu Berger’s sociological chronicle of Brussels Neighbourhood Contracts (cfr.