Alphaville

What Alphaville does

Alphaville (legally Agence Alphaville) is a French urban planning consultancy founded in 1991 and headquartered at 62 rue Planchat in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The firm provides urban programming, project development, and prospective consulting services to public and private sector clients, with operations spanning at least 14 French regions including Île-de-France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Hauts-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bretagne, Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Pays de la Loire, Grand Est, Normandie, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Centre-Val de Loire, Corse, and overseas territories (SEDRE, Île de la Réunion). The agency states it has completed more than 600 missions since founding and self-positions as 'militante de l'intérêt général' (advocate of the public interest).

The firm operates with a small team of approximately 16 employees and runs a content arm branded 'Les cahiers d'Alphaville' (the AVille publication series), which has produced four themed notebooks since 2019 covering schools (2019), housing (2022), urban economies (2024), and territorial resources (2025). These publications are sold directly through the company's WordPress website at €15.26–€17.00 per copy as perpetual licenses. Beyond consulting and publications, Alphaville runs a program called 'Explorations'—international study trips to cities such as London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes, and Sèvre-et-Maine—positioned as professional knowledge-exchange offerings.

Alphaville's customer base is concentrated almost entirely in the French public sector. Disclosed clients include EPA Euratlantique (Bordeaux), EPA Sénart, EPA Seine-Arche (Nanterre), Nantes Métropole, Lille Métropole, SADEV (ZAC Cancer Campus Villejuif), SEDRE (Île de la Réunion), Aquitanis (Bordeaux), CRIDF (Île-de-France), CA Versailles Grand Parc, Grand Montauban, Le Marsan Agglomération, Communauté d'Agglomération Pau Pyrénées, La Metro (Grenoble), SODEARIF (Palaiseau), Ville de Brétigny-sur-Orge, Clichy-la-Garenne, Rosny-sous-Bois, and Morlaix. Consulting pricing is contact-based and project-by-project, with no published recurring revenue structure. Revenue is not publicly disclosed. The company is privately held, founder-owned, and has no recorded external investment, acquisitions, partnerships, or leadership changes in the available data.

Name

Alphaville

Legal name

Agence Alphaville

Website

https://alphavilleurbanismes.wordpress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Alphaville (Agence Alphaville) is a Paris-based French urban planning consultancy founded in 1991, employing ~16 people to deliver urban programming, project development, and prospective consulting services primarily to French public-sector clients across 14+ regions, alongside the AVille publication series and study trip program.

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Paris

HQ country

France

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Europe

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B2B

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Core offering

Agence Alphaville is a French urban planning consultancy founded in 1991 that provides urban programming, project development, and prospective planning services to public and private sector clients. The agency has completed over 600 missions across French territories, focusing on programming studies, urban project support, prospective studies, economic development planning, and public equipment programming.

Product overview

Alphaville is a French urban planning agency offering urban programming, project development, and prospective consulting services to public and private sector clients. Founded in 1991, the company has completed over 600 missions. Their core service portfolio centers on urban programming and project consulting, supplemented by their publication series "Les cahiers d'Alphaville" (AVille #1 through #4) which share and extend strategic thinking on urban topics. They also conduct study trips called "Explorations" to international cities for professional development and knowledge exchange.

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Brands

• AVille: Les cahiers d'Alphaville - a publication series covering strategic urban topics including housing, schools, urban economies, and territorial resources.
• Les cahiers d'Alphaville

Products and services

• Urban Programming and Project Services Generalist and transversal urban programming, project development, and prospective consulting services for public and private sector clients, with over 600 missions completed since 1991.
• AVille #1 - Les cahiers d'Alphaville First volume of the Alphaville notebooks series exploring strategic urban topics, focused on school as architectural innovation and territorial anchor.
• AVille #2 - Les cahiers d'Alphaville Second volume examining housing as both intimate and political, exploring how lifestyle evolutions inform residential programming and territorial rebalancing.
• AVille #3 - Les cahiers d'Alphaville Third volume analyzing new urban economies and the rebellious function of urban planning, examining how economic dynamics integrate with contemporary territorial challenges.
• AVille #4 - Les cahiers d'Alphaville Fourth volume exploring territorialization of economy as a lever for balanced and sustainable development, examining resource exploitation, transformation, and consumption patterns.
• Explorations - Study Trips International study trips and site visits for professional development, including visits to cities such as London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Bordeaux, Berlin, Montpellier, Nantes, Rennes, Brussels, and Sèvre et Maine.

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Direct peers

• AREP: French urban planning, programming, and architecture consultancy serving public-sector clients. One of the leading direct competitors in the French urban programming space with similar project mixes and public-sector mandate orientation.
• SCET: French territorial and urban development consultancy serving local authorities and public operators. Direct competitor on urban programming, prospective, and economic development mandates.
• Atelier Roland Schweitzer: Paris-based urban design, programming, and metropolitan strategy firm. Comparable mid-sized French practice focused on public clients and similar programming/prospective service offerings.
• Agence Franck Boutté: French urban planning and energy transition consultancy combining programming with environmental strategy. Comparable practice size and public-sector client mix with overlapping expertise in urban economics and territorial planning.

Broad incumbents

• WSP: Global professional services firm with urban planning and development consulting in France. Operates from a much larger multidisciplinary platform, competing for the most strategic urban programming mandates.
• Egis: Major French engineering and urban development group with a planning/programming practice competing for the same public-sector urban mandates, but offering a much broader service portfolio including infrastructure and mobility.
• AECOM: Global urban planning, design, and infrastructure consulting firm with French operations. Competes for larger urban programming mandates and offers deeper technical and digital capabilities than specialist French practices.
• ARUP: Global planning, engineering, and design consultancy with urban development capabilities in France. Competes from a larger multidisciplinary position across infrastructure, buildings, and city strategy.

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Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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