The heart of ARCHIVAL-CITY’s approach consists of questioning the concept of urban archives on an international scale. Six fields have been chosen, and for each, one major issue will be examined:

 

Algiers archives displaced due to a colonial context see more	Bologna archiving and indexing over the very long term see more	Chiang-Mai how to archive the ephemeral architecture of a city see more
Greater Paris the issue of shifting cities and archives to a metropolitan scale see more	Jerusalem the very high diversity of languages and communities archived see more	Quito urban disasters and resilient archives see more

The goal is not to add up the fields, but to use them as starting points for thinking about how cities produce, sort, preserve and use their archives to address classic development issues (extension, urban renewal, managing resources and populations, infrastructures, major facilities, etc.).