Atelier Parisien D Urbanisme

Name

Atelier Parisien D Urbanisme

Legal name

Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme

Website

https://apur.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1967

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Urban planning research and metropolitan observatory services

NAICS

Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925)

akta.pro primary industry

Real Estate Public-Private Partnership (PPP) & Infrastructure-Adjacent Real Estate Advisory (BPAJANAL)

Keywords

• Urban planning research
• Metropolitan observatory services
• Open urban data platforms
• Mobility data analysis
• Housing policy studies

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Institutional Funding: As a non-profit association under the law of July 1, 1901, Apur operates primarily through public institutional funding from the City of Paris, Métropole du Grand Paris, and other regional government entities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Apur is a nonprofit urban planning research association that produces studies, cartographic atlases, observatory reports, and open data covering housing, mobility, demographics, economy, environment, and public space for the City of Paris and the Grand Paris metropolitan area. It functions as a shared technical observatory financed by public partners and distributes its analyses, mapping tools, and databases free of charge to public decision-makers, professionals, and citizens. Its deliverables combine printed publications (atlas, data portraits, reports) with interactive digital platforms, including an internal Cartothèque of georeferenced maps, an open data portal, and a dedicated mobility portal.

Product overview

APUR (Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme) is a Parisian urban planning research organization that offers a suite of analytical tools and data platforms for urban planning research. The core offerings include Data Portraits Grand Paris (data visualization with 100+ indicators), the Atlas de la Métropole du Grand Paris (cartographic atlas), the Observatoire des quartiers de gare (station district monitoring), the Portail des mobilités (mobility portal), and the Observatoire de l'économie (economic observatory). These tools work together to provide comprehensive urban analysis across themes including housing, mobility, demographics, economy, and environmental planning for the Greater Paris metropolitan area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Atlas de la Métropole du Grand Paris Printed and digital atlas produced by Apur that consolidates cartographic and statistical analyses of the Grand Paris metropolitan area, designed to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Métropole du Grand Paris.
• Data Portraits Grand Paris Series of fact-sheet style "portraits" that synthesise key indicators for the territories of the Grand Paris, used by public commissioners and professionals to understand each area's profile at a glance.
• Cartothèque Apur's in-house cartographic library of thousands of georeferenced maps covering Paris and the Grand Paris, used internally to produce studies and externally to support public decision-making.
• Apur Open Data Platform Public-facing open data platform that distributes Apur's urban datasets (housing, mobility, demographics, environment, etc.) for free reuse by professionals, researchers, and citizens.
• Portail Mobilités (Grand Paris mobility portal) Interactive web portal dedicated to mobility in the Grand Paris, published jointly with partners, providing data visualisations and analyses of transport infrastructure, traffic, and travel behaviour.
• Thematic observatories (housing, mobility, demographics, economy, environment, public space) Set of standing observatories that produce longitudinal indicators and reports on key urban themes for the Grand Paris area, used by public decision-makers and partners to monitor metropolitan trends.
• Apur newsletter and public events programme Periodic newsletter (with around 7,000 subscribers) and programme of around 60 public sessions per year that disseminate Apur's findings to public-sector partners, professionals, and citizens.

Quantifiable outcome

• 99/100 equality index score (2025)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Métropole du Grand PariscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary institutional partner for metropolitan urban planning research. Apur conducts studies on metropolitan development, transit-oriented development around Grand Paris Express stations, and coordinated territorial planning for the 131-municipality metropolitan area.
• Ville de PariscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMain founding partner providing core institutional support. Collaborative research on Paris-specific urban planning including housing, mobility, public space, and environmental transition projects within the city boundaries.
• Direction du Logement et de l'Habitat de la Ville de PariscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for housing research including social housing energy consumption studies, housing access analysis, and housing degradation prevention observatories.
• Paris HabitatmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMajor social housing provider partner for energy consumption research and renovation impact studies. Collaboration on analyzing real energy consumption data for over 76,000 social housing units.
• Elogie-SiempmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSocial housing operator partner in energy consumption and renovation studies. Joint research on energy performance improvements following renovation works.
• Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris (RIVP)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMunicipal real estate company partner for housing studies and urban planning research collaboration.
• Fédération Nationale des Agences d'Urbanisme (FNAU)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational federation membership enabling participation in national urban planning network, knowledge exchange, and annual FNAU conferences.
• Région Île-de-FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional council partner for Île-de-France territorial development studies and metropolitan planning coordination.
• CESAER (INRAE)majorTechnology or IntegrationResearch collaboration with CESAER for econometric analysis of rent control effects in Paris, involving academic researchers from INRAE and Institut Agro Dijon.
• Observatoire de la Situation Sociale à Paris partnersmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership network including Ville de Paris and other social organizations for monitoring social impacts and crisis effects in Paris.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Greater London Authority - Planning and Intelligence: London's metropolitan governance body includes planning research, data dissemination, and intelligence functions analogous to APUR. Serves as a comparable regional urban planning data role for the London area rather than Paris.
• New York City Department of City Planning: Municipal-level urban planning agency for New York City. Performs analogous metropolitan planning research, zoning studies, and data publication functions, but operates for a different global city and U.S. institutional context.

Direct peers

• a'urba - Agence d'urbanisme de Bordeaux Métropole: Urban planning agency for the Bordeaux metropolitan area. Operates under the same French urban planning agency model as APUR, producing studies, observatories, and data for municipal and metropolitan decision-makers.
• AUAT - Agence d'urbanisme et d'aménagement de Toulouse aire urbaine: Urban planning agency serving the Toulouse metropolitan area. Functions as a direct peer with the same institutional structure, public funding model, and product mix of studies, observatories, and cartographic resources.
• AGAM - Agence d'urbanisme de l'agglomération marseillaise: Urban planning agency for the Marseille metropolitan area, also part of the FNAU network. Provides analogous planning research, data platforms, and strategic studies for another large French metropolitan territory.
• Institut Paris Region: Regional urban planning research institute serving the broader Île-de-France region. Highly comparable mission of producing data, observatories, and planning studies for a French metropolitan area, but with a regional rather than municipal remit.
• Agence d'urbanisme de l'aire métropolitaine lyonnaise: Urban planning agency for the Lyon metropolitan area and member of the same FNAU network as APUR. Produces comparable data, studies, and cartographic resources for another major French metropolitan area.

Broad incumbents

• CEREMA: French public agency for territorial development expertise and risk studies. Operates at a national level on overlapping themes of mobility, environment, and urban planning, providing broader public-sector expertise adjacent to APUR's mission.
• Fédération Nationale des Agences d'Urbanisme (FNAU): National federation of French urban planning agencies, of which APUR is a member. Operates as the umbrella network that coordinates knowledge exchange and convenes conferences across all member agencies, including APUR.

Others

• INSEE: France's national statistics institute, which is one of the upstream data sources that feeds APUR's Data Portraits platform. Provides the underlying demographic, economic, and housing statistics that APUR aggregates and contextualizes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Profiles6 records

Funding overview

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