Marseilles Spring ConferenceRenewal and Regeneration The Marseilles/Provence Metropolitan Area 30 May - 1 June 2012
PRACTICAL GUIDE
METREX t h e N e t w o r k o f e u r o p e a N M e t r o p o l i t a N r e g i o N s a N d a r e a s
Hosted by :
Agam - Marseilles Urban Area Town Planning Agency
CCIMP - Marseilles Provence Chamber of Industry and Commerce
City of Marseilles
MPM - Marseilles Provence Metropole (Marseilles Provence Collectivity)
EPAEM - Euromediterranee Urban Development Agency
GPMM - Marseilles Fos Port Authority
The Marseilles Provence territory’s membership of the Metrex networkIn 2010, six major local partners were elected to become a member of Metrex : the Agam, the CCIMP, Mar-
seilles City Hall, MPM, the GPMM, and the EPAEM. This multi-partner membership results from a unified
wish to contribute to the metropolitan construction underway. It is important to note, however, that the
limits of the metropolitan area extend to the borders of the Bouches-du-Rhône département, beyond the
territory represented by those six partners.
After barely three years of participation in the network, the six partners are delighted to demonstrate their
commitment to the Metrex association in hosting the 2012 bi-annual spring conference around the theme
’’Territorial renewal and regeneration’’.
Design Realisation : Agam Credits photos : Golem Image, Euroméditerrannée, Communauté urbaine MPM, Association MP2013, GPMM, CCIMP, City of Marseilles, Agam, Groupement Michel Desvigne, Foster & Partners, Tangram architectes, Ingerop, Yann Kersalé, Synaps.
Marseilles Spring Conference
the town planning agency: an instrument for enginee-ring in partnership
The Agam, created in 1969, is a partnership structure that
brings together local authorities and the State, as well as
several public bodies and organisations. It is a meeting point
where the different territorial scales overlap, and provides
expertise and advice on the questions of the urban and econo-
mic development of the Marseilles metropolis. Constituting a
driver for dialogue and joint working: this is the ‘hallmark” of
the town planning agency. To that end, it benefits from the full
support of a multi-disciplinary team and on a resource centre
that collects and organises the data necessary for an unders-
tanding of territories and an analysis of urban phenomena.
“The Marseilles agglomeration town planning agency has
the authority to play the role of “pipeline” between the dif-
ferent stakeholders and territories in order to promote the
coherence of decisions implemented by public authorities.
It provides support in ensuring the mobilisation of all those who,
within the context of their competencies, will be called upon”.
Claude VALLETTE president of agam
The Marseilles Provence Chamber of Commerce and Industry, promoting the development of the area’s economic influence
The Marseilles Provence CCI, the first Chamber of Commerce
in the world, created in 1599, now represents the interests of
all the businesses on the area’s Commercial Register, tota-
ling some 73,600 establishments. With its two functions, sup-
port for businesses and support for the territory, it has set a
course for effectiveness, to boost enterprises on its territory
and increase that territory’s influence.
“The Marseilles Provence metropolis is now a reality for busi-
nesses and citizens. Our ambition: to develop the metropolis and
get it into the European Top 20. Territorial awareness guides our
initiatives. Currently, Marseilles Provence is preparing for its role
as European Capital of Culture 2013. In the very near future, our
territory will be welcoming 3 million cruise passengers, 5 million
containers and 10 million airline passengers.”
Jacques Pfisterpresident of CCiMp
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Euroméditerranee, the largest urban renewal pro-ject in southern Europe
A joint initiative of the national government and local orga-
nizations, the Euroméditerranée initiative is charged with
redeveloping and growing Marseilles to such a degree that
it becomes recognized as one of Europe’s major cities. This
social, economic and cultural development project of national
significance, launched in 1995, is creating a city that is both
attractive and influential. At 480 hectares, Euroméditerranée
is the largest urban renewal project in Europe.
“Compared to other French regions, our city has many unique
advantages : ITER*, European Capital of Culture 2013, Campus
Plan, port reforms, the Calanques National Park, and of course
the Union for the Mediterranean process”
Guy TEISSIERMp for the Bouches-du- rhône, president of euro-
méditerranée
City of Marseilles
Marseilles, which is France’s second-largest city, combines a
wealth of unique heritage, intense cultural life and economic
dynamism with an exceptional natural environment. With the
impetus of a long-standing tradition of openness, Marseilles
figures as one of the most active cities with regard to decen-
tralized cooperation in maintaining privileged relations with
cities around the globe. In hosting numerous international
organizations, Marseilles is positioning itself as a centre of
expertise, contributing to meeting the major economic and
social challenges arising in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
“Marseilles, the link between Europe and the Mediterranean, is
an open, dynamic and attractive metropolis thanks to its deter-
mined international policy that translates into close economic
and cultural relations with many European and Mediterranean
cities.”
Jean-Claude GAUDINsenator Mayor of Marseilles
Marseilles Provence Metropole : France’s 2nd largest urban area
Created after the implementation of decentralisation laws,
the Marseilles Provence Métropole was created in 2000. Its
18 municipalities, including the inner city of Marseilles, de-
cided to set up a single organisational framework covering
a number of functions, so as to more effectively service the
local population whilst planning for territorial development
requirements. Its responsibilities include development and
planning, social cohesion, distribution and management of
public and environmental services. MPM is also the Trans-
port Authority (AOT) for the territory. The Urban Community
manages 24 marinas, making it the largest centre of leisure
sailing/yachting in France and the second-largest in Europe.
« Our territorial development project is dedicated to meet a num-
ber of major challenges : improving living conditions, reinforcing
public transport and access to housing, promoting employment
and economic growth as well as strengthening our role as Euro-
mediterranean hub. »
Eugene CASELLIpresident of MpM
Marseilles Fos Port Authority
Marseilles Fos is the n° 1 French port and n° 5 in Europe. It is
a major industrial logistics platform whose facilities are loca-
ted between Fos bay and the Marseilles docks. Its remarkable
positioning as the gateway to southern Europe, at the heart of
the Mediterranean arc and at the mouth of the major Rhône-
Saône axis is a rare trump card. When Marseilles welcomes
the Mediterranean, Fos makes an appointment with the world.
To the West, in Fos docks, a global trading hub, there is a
concentration of large-volume and industrial traffic on inter-
continental routes. To the East, in Marseilles’s docks, the har-
bour welcomes ships carrying intra-Mediterranean merchan-
dise and Mediterranean passengers. There, shipyard repairs
are a booming industry. The breakdown of stopovers (3,700 or
47% in Marseilles, and 4,200 or 53% in Fos) demonstrates the
key role that the Eastern docks are playing in the port eco-
nomy and in that of the city of Marseilles and of the Marseilles
metropolis.
Jean-Claude TERRIER head of gpMM
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Wednesday 30 May METREX Networking DayVenue : CCIMP
METREX Networking Meetings and METREX Mana-
ging Committee Meeting
Venue : Marseilles Town Hall
Registration
Reception by elected representatives
from the METREX Marseilles Membership
Thursday 31 May Marseilles DayVenue : Marseilles Provence Metropole Hall – Le Pharo
Coffee, Tea and Registration
Welcome Introduction and Organisation of the Conference
• Hannu PENTTILA, President of METREX
• Elected representative from Metrex Marseilles Membership
• Organisation of the day
Overview of the territory : a multi polar territory
• Christian BRUNNER, Head of Agam - Marseilles Urban
Area Town Planning Agency
• Pascal MARCHAND, Head of Planning, Marseilles Provence
Metropole
• Régine VINSON, Head of City-Port Relationships Develop-
ment Division, Marseilles Fos Port Authority
Which governance for a multipolar territory ?
• Jacques BOULESTEIX, President of Conseil de Développe-
ment Marseilles Provence
• Gilles PINSON, Professor of Politics at Sciences Po Lyon
Discussion
Coffee and tea
Friday 1 June METREX DayVenue : Marseilles Provence Metropole Hall – Le Pharo
the Mediterranean dimension
part 1
Presentation of the Euro-Mediterranean Dimension of the
Territory
• Cyril ROBIN CHAMPIGNEUL, European Commission Repre-
sentative in Marseilles
part 2
Presentation of the CATMED european program
« Change Mediterranean Metropolises Around Time »
• Hélène BALU, Chief of Sustainable Development, Environ-
ment and Mobility department - Agam
• Loïc GIRAUDON, Project Leader, City of Marseilles
Metropolitan sites in transformation - showcases of Berlin
• Reiner NAGEL, Head of Departement of Urban Development,
Berlin Senate
Coffee and tea
Knowledge Day Workshops (15-25 delegates in each in-
cluding a Moderator, Rapporteur & discussants)
Theme 1 : Urban Regeneration
• Wastelands and real estate management
• Urban Renewal
• Governance and funding to decide on, initiate and lead
large projects
• Short Sight Seeing tour in the gardens of Le Pharo
Lunch
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13.15 - 14.30 :
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19.30 - 23.00 :
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9.45 - 10.15 :
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16.30 - 16.45 :
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Three flagship territorial projects, as a reflection of the
renewal dynamics
1 – Renewal through culture – Marseilles Provence
European Capital of Culture 2013
• Ulrich FUCHS, Deputy Director General - Marseilles Provence
European Capital of Culture 2013
• Boris GRESILLON, University Professor, author of « Mar-
seilles Provence 2013 - A Capital challenge»
2 – Renewal through spatial planning - Euromediterra-
née and the Belle-de-Mai wasteland
• Franck GEILING, Head of architecture, town planning and
sustainable development, Euromediterranee
• François LECLERQ, town planner, winner of the internatio-
nal urban design competition for Euromediterranee
3 – Renewal through higher education and innovation -
merging of Aix-Marseilles universities
• Herve ISAR, Deputy President of Aix-Marseilles University
• Hervé BRAILLY, PhD, Chairman of the Executive Board and
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Innate Pharma SA
Lunch
Orientation tour
Ship tour within the eastern docks of Marseilles Fos Port
and pedestrian route to be organised from the Conference
venue.
Break and delegates return to hotels
Venue : Friche de la Belle-de-Mai
Conference Dinner
Short visit of the industrial wasteland renewal building site
Dinner
Knowledge Day Workshops (15-25 delegates in each in-
cluding a Moderator, Rapporteur & discussants)
Theme 2 Realizing the potential of Culture and Tourism
• How to sustain the positive effects once large events
are over and large infrastructure has been completed?
• Governance and funding to decide on, initiate and lead
large projects
METREX Istanbul Study Visit and Managing Committee
Meeting Feedback
• Istanbul Metropolitan Area Master Plan
• METREX Brussels presence and lobbying
• METREX 2012 Elections
• Roger READ, Secretary General, METREX
Discussion
Feedback reports on the Knowledge Day Workshops
• Workshop Rapporteurs
Discussion
Invitation to the Vienna Conference and METREX General
Assembly
• Representative of the Vienna Membership - To be
confirmed
• Roger READ, Secretary General, METREX
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Marine park of the côte bleue
Core land park
Core marine park
Urban areaRoad networkMain roadways/motorways
Regional links
Rail network
Intercommunity boundaries
Economic area
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Airports
High-speed train network
Sources : IGN BD CARTO / Occupation du sol 1999 - CRIGe / POS généralisés - DRE PACA / INSEE - RP 1999
Marseilles Fos Port
Main marinas
National Park of the Calanques
Boundaries of the park
Marine protected areas
Key Figures
Total : 5 200 km²Population in 2009: 1 995 000 inhabi-tantsHousing stock: - 927 000 housing units with 32 000 se-
cond homes (3.5%) and 57 000 vacant housing units (6%),
- 360 000 houses and 560 000 flats
EMPLOYMENT780 000 jobs with 9 300 in agriculture, 83 000 in industry, 50 000 in construc-tion, 373 000 in private services sector and 261 000 in public services sector. Working population : 875 000 people of whom 752 000 are in employment,
BUSINESSES- 150 000 businesses with 7 000 in agri-
culture, 9 300 in industry, 16 400 in construction 340 000 in retail, trans-port and market services,
- a rate of 17% of new businesses crea-tion (in 2011)
ACCESSIBILITY AND CONNECTIVITY OF THE TERRITORY : - an international airport with a passen-
ger volume of 7.5 million passengers, steadily increasing for the seventh year running,
- two TGV stations : Aix-TGV and Mar-seilles-Saint-Charles-TGV,
- a large maritime port : 86 million tons for goods transport and 1.7 million passengers.
Living in our metropolitan area... and discovering our territory AN UNUSUAL NATURAL HERITAGE FOR A METROPOLITAN AREA
- a national periurban natural park, the first of its kind in Europe, created in April 2012 both terrestrial (8 300 ha) and maritime (43 500 ha),
- two regional natural parks : the Ca-margue Park, created in 1970 over 100 000 ha (natural wetland area) and Alpilles Park created in 2007 over an area of 51 000 ha (great fauna biodi-versity),
- an internationally famous massif, the Montagne Sainte-Victoire and the ico-nic massifs of Provence : the Estaque and Garlaban,
- a coastline of about 270 km (excluding that of islands) with about 30 km of calanques.
AN UNRIVALLED TOURISTIC TERRITORY - iconic historical centres : Aix-en-Pro-
vence, Arles, Marseilles…- 9 million visitors with 15% overseas
tourists, mostly British, Italian and Belgian.
The Marseilles-Provence metropolitan area
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Marseilles Provence: a multi-polar territory Which governance for a multipolar territory ?
The Development councils are citizen assemblies composed
of the territory’s economic, social, cultural and associative
representatives. Authorities for dialogue and debate between
partners from multiple horizons which only rarely have the
opportunity to exchange, their vocation is to enrich reflection
on the territory’s big issues, through the cross-referencing of
competences and citizens’ points of view. The Development
councils are complements of representative democracy,
and are regularly consulted by intercommunal governance
bodies, or those of the areas to which they are attached but
can also tackle all questions dealing with planning and deve-
lopment of the territory in the broadest sense.
A partnership approach has been launched by all the deve-
lopment councils in the metropolitan area upon request from
the Presidents of the intercommunal authorities: to identify
the major metropolitan issues and the collaborative projects
to be rolled out as a priority for increasing the influence and
the development of this great territory and, in parallel, for the
organisation of the governance to be implemented and the
resources to be deployed.
France is currently undergoing a period of mutation, with regard
to the development of its territories. The development underway
resonates most particularly in Marseilles Provence, in view of its
geography, and of its particularities.
Only a part of the metropolitan territory is represented in its
membership in the Metrex Network. The effective metropolis
includes at least two thirds of the Bouches-du-Rhône Depart-
ment, from the Etang de Berre to Aubagne, taking in Aix and,
for some, extends even further. Currently, within the context of
the aforementioned evolutions, a metropo-
litan hub covering the whole department is
in gestation.
Together, the department’s conurbations
constitute the distinct poles of a metro-
politan territory under development. An
observation of the different flows that irri-
gate them confirms their strong interde-
pendency: flows linked to housing, transport of persons and
goods, to jobs, to incomes, to leisure activities and links between
businesses, universities and research centres... all circuits that
characterise the metropolitan territory on a daily basis
Its specificity resides in its multi-polarity. Each of the nine
conurbations possesses its own economic resilience, its own
identity, and its own influence. These are forces that are to be
combined and coordinated, in order to make a success of the
metropolitan construction of our territory.
May 31 : 10.00 - 10.30WITH
Jacques BOULESTEIX, President of Marseilles Provence Developement Council
Gilles PINSON, is a professor of Politics at Sciences-Po Lyon and Sciences-Po Paris. He is also one of the four founders of the research center « Understanding Urban Worlds* », which won a national wide tender concerning investments for the future. He co-runs the french online magazine His works bears on the urban politics and metropo-litan governance.
* Intelligence des mondes urbains
May 31 : 9.30 - 10.00WITH
Christian BRUNNERHead of Agam - Marseilles Urban Area Town Planning Agency Pascal MARCHANDHead of Planning, Marseilles Provence Metropole
Régine VINSONHead of City-Port Relationships Development Division, Marseilles Fos Port Authority
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Euroméditerranée now pilots a transformation process of
large industrial wastelands located in the inner city so as to
create new economic, retail and residential developments.
The transformation of this part of town located between the
city centre of Marseilles and the northern maritime facade,
covering 480 hectares (confer map on page 17), must make
it possible to extend the city centre northbound linking up
with peripheral parts of the city, promoting the metropolitan
influence, ensuring the evolution of this rundown area and
addressing the interface between the city and the port.
Euroméditerranée acquires land, plans public spaces and
establishes the development programme. The land is then
sold on to developers and / or operators on the basis of spe-
cifications specifying the nature and architectural form of
development.
The scope of the operation has been extended over 170 hec-
tares in 2007 with a development objective of 14 000 new hou-
sing units and with 500 000m² of new offices. This extension
was given the Ecocité Label by the Grenelle de l’environne-
ment forum.
The territorial dimension is at the heart of the Marseilles Pro-
vence 2013, European Capital of Culture project. This project in-
volves a territory of 4 600 km², brings together 75 municipalities,
9 intercommunal authorities and 1 773 000 inhabitants.
MP2013, which is first and foremost cultural, with
the scheduling of 400 events covering a
wide range of artistic disciplines,
and over 600 million Euros
in investment which
will contribute
to the
renewal of the cultural landscape of the metropolitan area, is
also an essential part of the work of metropolitan development.
The knowledge and the European experience of Ulrich Fuchs
and of Boris Grésillon on these different dimensions will make
it possible to scrutinise the issues and challenges, along with
the successes and pitfalls, that can be encountered in the imple-
mentation of this type of territorial project.
May 31 : 11.15 - 11.45
WITH
Ulrich FUCHS was in charge of Bremen’s application to become European Capital of Culture in 2003. In 2005, he became the deputy director and programme director for Linz, the European Capital of Culture in 2009. In May 2010, he joined Marseilles-Pro-vence 2013 as the association’s deputy managing director.
Boris GRESILLON, is a profes-sor at the Aix-Marseilles Univer-sity and a researcher at the Me-diterranean House for Human Sciences (MMSH) laboratory. As a geographer, he is an expert in cultural and urban affairs. He is notably the author of « Kultur-metropol Berlin » (Berlin, 2004), and of « Un enjeu « capitale »: Marseilles Provence 2013 ».
May 31 : 11.45 - 12.15WITH
Franck GEILING, is a D.P.L.G architect with a PhD in Local deve-lopment management and urban policies at the Université de la Méditerranée. He is currently the Director of Architecture and Town Planning, in charge of leading the architectural and urban policy, of coordinating housing policies, of taking forward real estate consulta-tion processes and planning of public spaces.
François LECLERCQ, is a certified architect, town planner, profes-sor at Ecole d’Architecture of Marne-La-Vallée, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight in the Order of Arts and Humanities.
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Renewal through higher education, research and innovation
Original (1) and extension (2) zones of Euromediterranee
How can training, production and enhancement of knowledge
be organised on the metropolitan scale?
The recent merger of the three universities of Aix-Marseilles
with the creation, on 1st January 2012, of just the one Aix-Mar-
seilles University lies at the heart of this theme.
This new higher education and research university, with its
70 000 students, 4 500 teaching staff members and resear-
chers and its e 650 million budget, is a key player on our ter-
ritory. Beyond training and research, the issues of linking and
developing the necessary porosities with the economy on the
metropolitan scale have to be addressed. What can the forms
of embedding of this territorial links, in spatial as well as in
networks terms be ?
Thanks to their current position and background, Hervé Isar
and Hervé Brailly, will make it possible for us to better ap-
preciate these issues around the development of training,
research and innovation over a territory.
At the end of 2007, the State and the local authorities decided to
extend the operation’s area northwards, to encompass a further
169 hectares. At 480 hectares, Euromediterranée is now the big-
gest urban renewal operation in Europe. This undertaking is a
veritable urban eco-design project, enjoying Ecocité accreditation
from the Ministry of Ecology since the end of 2009, and a precursor
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May 31 : 12.15 - 12.45 WITH
Hervé BRAILLY, PhD, Chairman of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Innate Pharma SA, a public biotech company deve-loping first-in-class drug candidates for the treatment of cancer and inflammation. The company was foun-ded in 1999 and originates from academic research. Hervé Brailly also serves on the Board of several insti-tutions such as Provence-Languedoc BioCluster Euro-
biomed and INserm Transfert.
Hervé ISAR, is an associate professor in Public Law, he is an expert in Electronic Communications Law. His role in the roll out of the « Operation Campus », a large real estate initiative on the Aix-Marseilles area, has led him to be an active participant in the merger of the three universities of Aix-Marseilles. Following the creation of the Aix-Marseilles University, he was elected Deputy-President in charge of the heritage of this major university. »
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ORIENTATION TOUR : Ship tour and pedestrian route from the Conference venue
SkylineThe Cité de la Méditerrannée, being developed between the en-
trance to the Old Harbour and Arenc, is one of Euromeéditerranée’s
most ambitious programmes, and is an integral part of the new
relationship between the city and the port. The redevelopment of
the seafront is a major urban issue as it makes possible the revi-
talization of the city centre and the port by recreating connections
between the two sites.
Vieux Port Marseilles’s Vieux-Port effectively is the center of
town and is about to undergo a major modification
and renovation, in order to improve its access to the
public. The plan demand massive changes in the
transportation and parking, lighting, access to the
port, street and pavement levels and even the posi-
tioning of the tunnel exit. This project is part of the
preparation to 2013, when Marseilles Provence will
be European Capital of Culture. MUCEMSituated at the prow of the J4, this emblem of the «Cité de la Médi-
terranée» designed by the team led by Rudy RICCIOTTI and Roland
CARTA, represents the first creation by the State of a great national
museum outside Paris. The future MuCEM (Museum of European
and Mediterranean Civilisations) will consist of two buildings: the
rehabilitated Fort Saint Jean and the building on the J4 esplanade
that will host the permanent exhibitions and will open in 2013, Capi-
tal of Culture year.
Major Cathedral EsplanadeThis architectural ensemble of Cathedral and Vieille Major
(the former cathedral) constitutes a major component of Mar-
seilles’s cultural and architectural heritage. With the develop-
ment of the J4 esplanade, it will inevitably contribute to the de-
velopment of cultural activities linked to Marseilles-Provence
2013, European Capital of Culture.
Docks buildings / Business districtSince 1992, when the Euroméditerranée project first saw the light of day, the Joliette
quarter has evolved into a veritable business district. This dynamic and attractive dis-
trict, which has a distinctly international stature, already hosts 12,000 employees wor-
king for 800 businesses in the services, international trade and telecommunications
domains.
Marseilles-Fos Port Eastern DocksTo the East, in Marseilles’s Docks, the harbour welcomes ships carrying
intra-Mediterranean merchandise and Mediterranean passengers. Shipyard
repairs are a booming industry. The breakdown of stopovers (3,700 or 47%
in Marseilles, and 4,200 or 53% in Fos) demonstrates the key role that the
Eastern docks are playing in the port economy and in that of the city of Mar-
seilles and of the Marseilles metropolis.
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May 31 : 14.30 - 18.00
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FRIcHE dE LA BELLE-dE-MAIShort visit of the industrial wasteland renewal building site / Dinner
The Mediterranean Dimension
La Friche la Belle de Mai is an artistic and cultural centre in
Marseilles with international prestige. This place of contem-
porary creation and multidisciplinary artistic production is
an incubator for activities (residencies, concerts, exhibitions,
shows, screenings, catering etc.) which brings together 70
independent organisations employing some 400 professional
artists and show people.
La Friche is also a place for shows open to all types of au-
dience which attracts 110,000 spectators/visitors every year.
Theatre, music, dance, circus, visual arts, and cinema: all
artistic disciplines are practiced and publicly displayed and
performed here.
This industrial wasteland that was converted into a cultural
space in 1992 also hosts artists’ and authors’ residencies,
placing artists and the city at the heart of its project, and is
a landmark amongst “Art’s New Territories”, which it prefi-
gured.
Marseilles’s geographical position and history lends it a natu-
ral tropism towards the Mediterranean. This Euro-Mediterra-
nean dimension is reinforced by the close relationships that
the territory’s stakeholders have developed with many Medi-
terranean countries in the economic, urban development,
cultural, higher education, health and public safety sectors…
Numerous cooperation projects are being rolled out in the
Euro-Mediterranean region, notably involving the organisa-
tions with international scope that Marseilles welcomes on
its territory.
Presentation of CAT MED
The project CAT MED, developed between 2009 and 2011 wit-
hin the context of the MED programme (Change Mediterra-
nean Metropolises Around Time), aimed to identify operatio-
nal solutions for modifying urban behavior in order to reduce
the environmental impact of urbanization.
It brought together the cities of Athens, Barcelona, Genoa,
Aix-en-Provence, Malaga, Marseilles, Rome, Seville, Thessa-
lonica, Turin and Valencia, with the Institut de la Méditerranée
providing technical support for the partners.
CAT-MED resulted in three major phases of work :
• The creation of a Transnational System of Indicators
• Experimentation on the basis of practical cases on each of the
territories through the creation of metropolitan workgroups
• capitalisation on experience through the drafting of a metho-
dological guide to Mediterranean sustainable districts via the
signature of the “Malaga Charter for sustainable urban mo-
dels”
The Villa Valmer, a centre for International Expertise serving the Mediterranean
Over the last few years, the Phocean city (Marseilles) has
attracted many international bodies, which have made it a top
ranking centre of expertise on great Mediterranean issues.
The Villa Valmer, dominating the Corniche and with a view that
extends to the Mediterranean horizon, has become the sym-
bol of intense international activity. In becoming home to an
office of the World Bank and of the UN Industrial Development
Organisation in 2004, followed by the establishment between
2005 and 2007 of the United cities and Local Governments
(UcLG), the “Plan Bleu”, and the International Organisation
for Migration, The Villa Valmer has now become a unique plat-
form in that it hosts top ranking multi-partner initiatives such
as the Marseilles Centre for Integration in the Mediterranean
(CMI) and the Office for Economic Cooperation of the Mediter-
ranean and the Middle East (OCEMO).
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June 1st : 8.45 - 9.45
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Changing metropolitan sites : the example of Berlin
Knowledge Day workshops Notre-dame-de-la-Garde Calanque Sugiton New velodrome stadium
Corniche JFKCorbusier
Palais Longchamps
- Marseilles Cultural’s renaissance. Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2012
- urban regeneration and social sustaina-bility : Best practice from european Cities. Andrea Colantonio, Tim Dixon. Wiley-Blackwell, November 2010.
- transforming urban waterfronts : fixity and flow. Gene desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Dirk Schubert, Quentin Stevens. Routle-dge, September 2010.
- events and urban regeneration : the stra-tegic use of events to revitalise cities. An-drew Smith. Routledge, January 2012.
- the creative power of cities : City, culture and society (Vol. 2, No. 3). Francesco Ban-darin. Elsevier, September 2011. pp 121-176
- Creative knowledge cities: Myths, visions and realities. Marina van Geenhuizen, Peter Nijkamp. Edward Elgar, February 2012.
- sustainable city and creativity : Promo-ting creative urban initiatives. Luigi Fusco Girard, Tüzin Baycan, Peter Nijkamp. Ash-gate, January 2012
- Marseille 2013 or the final round of a long and complex regeneration strategy ?
Lauren Andres, Town planning review
- Marseille Versus Marseille provence : local and regional Challenges of 2013 eCoC, Lauren Andres - Maastricht Univer-sity website : www.maastrichtuniversity.nl
Theme 1 : Urban Regeneration
• Wastelands and real estate management
• Urban Renewal
• Governance and funding to decide on, initiate and lead large pro-
jects
Theme 2 : Realizing the potential of Culture and Tourism
• How to sustain the positive effects once large events are over and
large infrastructure has been completed?
• Governance and funding to decide on, initiate and lead large pro-
jects
WITH
Reiner NAGEL, architect and urban planner, graduated in Architec-
ture in 1985. Between 1998 and 2005, he was Member of the Board at
HCH Hafen City Hamburg GmbH, managing the International deve-
lopment Project. Since 2005, he has been Head of Department for
Urban Planning and Open Space in the Senate Department for Urban
Development Berlin, with lectureships at the Berlin University of Tech-
nology. He is Member of the Deutschen Akademie für Städtebau und
Landesplanung (DASL) and Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA).
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Marseilles Conference ContactsSylvain CRESPEL - AgamTel 00 33 (0) 6 83 59 56 [email protected]
Marie-Anne GOBERT - CCIMPTel : 00 33 (0) 6 25 18 52 07 [email protected]
> HôTELSEtap Hotel Marseilles Vieux Port46 rue SainteTel 00 33 (0) 8 92 68 05 82
Hotel Ibis Marseilles Euromediterranée15/17 boulevard de Dunkerque Tel 00 33 (0) 4 91 99 25 20
New Hotel Select4 allée Léon GambettaTel 00 33 (0) 4 91 95 09 09
> cOnFEREncE LOcATIOnS
CCIMP : Palais de la Bourse 9 La canebière
Marseilles Town Hall :Quai du Port
Marseilles Provence Metropole Hall Le Pharo - 58 boulevard charles Livon