We are delighted to announce the publication of issue 144 (2026/02) of the journal Flux, ‘Le foncier des infrastructures’ edited by Juliette Maulat, Jean-Baptiste Frétigny and Natacha Aveline.
Contents
Land for infrastructure. From shifts in network operators’ land and property strategies to territorial and environmental controversies
The Maine-Montparnasse project (1953–1973): the SNCF’s early embrace of property development in a Parisian station neighbourhood
- By Adrien Duval
From infrastructure coverage to residual land: the continuum of railway land development in the Netherlands
- By Inès Delépine and Mathilde Pedro
Land in 3D! Excavation and backfilling: a zero-sum game? The volumetric impacts of infrastructure projects in Toulouse on the Ariège plain
- By Hélène Blaszkiewicz, Jérémie Cavé, Léa Sébastien, Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Sylvain Kuppel, Astrid Avellan and Laure Laffont
From the greening of industries to increased land use: the paradox of the photovoltaic and excavated soil management sectors
- By Maxime Algis
The significance of the event
River and port land: a tool for urban decarbonisation?
- By Jean Debrie
Interview
Interview with Rémi Feredj, former Chief Executive of Poste Immo
- With Matthieu Gimat and Juliette Maulat
Reading notes
Coudroy de Lille, L., Brun, J., Burgel G., Montigny G., Ozouf-Marignier M.-V. (eds.), 2023, Marcel Roncayolo: In the Footsteps of a Unique Geographer, Marseille, Parenthèses, 320 pp.
- By Hélène Nessi
Rouillard, D., and Artuphel, M. (eds.), 2024, *Magic: The Irrationality of Infrastructure*, Geneva: MétisPresses, 213 pp.
Bertho R., Keravel S., Pousin F., Roseau N. (eds.), 2024, Photographing Greater Paris: A Visual History of Metropolitan Change, Paris, Hermann, 335 pp.
Herr-Laporte, C., 2025, *Être à l’heure. Coordonner les mobilités en France au XVIIIe siècle*, Paris, Presses des Mines, ‘Histoire, sciences, techniques et sociétés’ series, 279 pp.
- By Marie Hue
David Sayagh, *The Sociology of Cycling*, 2025, Paris, La Découverte, ‘Repères. Sociologie’ series, 128 pp.