The Hyper-Industrial Era
The geopolitical upheaval inherent to the urban revolution and the globalization of the economy is founded on the gradual disappearance of both the modern Fordist world vision and our production capabilities. We are living a third Industrial Revolution based on intangibles that is brutally disrupting our organizational paradigms. In order to try to better understand this crisis, the economist Pierre Veltz describes a turning point that he calls “hyper-industrial,” which is characterized by a new form of generalized industry that does not set services apart from other modes of production, and includes the predominance of relationships and the emergence of new organizational forms. He also reflects on metropolization and his concept of an “archipelago economy” linking the new dominant metropolises to each other. Pierre Veltz is an engineer, sociologist and economist, recipient of the Grand Prix d’Urbanisme in 2017. Former director of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, he is a specialist of the transformations of organizational structures and territorial dynamics. Interview with Gilbert Emont Gilbert Emont is an economist, director of the Palladio Institute, he is specialized in housing issues.
