from Public to Common, discrete planning: Paris Metropolis

If we consider the common as what founds communities, what binds it and makes it recognizable as a whole, it becomes an interesting tool with which to explain the metropolitan living conditions. Even though we go farther than the strict notion of « public », the « common » re-interrogates the way we should apprehend the question of contemporary public space in the city and the metropolis.
Making common, with differences. The essential question to ask ourselves would then be : how does one make Commonness with a sum of differences without neutralizing not smoothing them beyond recognition ? It is precisely this question that planning as we know it today is incapable of answering. The notions of « local metropolitan » or
« metropolitan situations » seem interesting as they use the different scales, not in a linear fashion, but in a dynamic movement made of mutual interests, co-production, respective vis-à-vis.