Taking its point of departure from Mariana Mazzucato’s The Entrepreneurial State (2014), this article examines the French state as an innovator in the realm of green housing. Drawing upon field research into the design and reception of eco-neighbourhoods, the author explores the French state’s experiments in ‘green culture’, asking what ‘improving daily life’, a stated objective of the ÉcoQuartier programme, means to planners and residents? Do ÉcoQuartier inhabitants become more environmentally conscious in their domestic practices? There are numerous parallels with France’s post-war experiments in mass housing that prompt us to ask questions about the French state’s experimental method. This article argues that the innovation of the eco-neighbourhood reveals that the state’s belief in spatial determinism remains strong and that the ÉcoQuartier initiative indicates that some, but not all, of the important lessons from the mass housing experiments of the 1950s and 60s have been learned.

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创新状态：ÉcoQuartiers作为法国“绿色文化”实验室

本文从马里亚纳·马祖卡托（Mariana Mazzucato）的《创业国家》（Entrepreneurial State，2014）出发，考察了法国政府在绿色住房领域的创新情况。笔者基于对生态社区的设计和接受的现场研究，探索了法国在“绿色文化”方面的实验，并询问“改善日常生活”（ÉcoQuartier计划的既定目标）对计划者和居民意味着什么？ÉcoQuartier居民是否在家庭实践中变得更加环保？与法国战后大规模住房试验有许多相似之处，促使我们提出有关法国政府试验方法的问题。