Marseille

The city has undergone profound changes in recent decades, partly as a result of a major urban renewal project (Euroméditerranée / Marseille Capital of European Culture 2013). Although these interventions have modified the city's image (even creating phenomena of touristification of the Vieux Port - Panier area), they have not erased the great inequalities among parts of the city, which have produced various struggles on the issue of housing and opposition to gentrification dynamics.

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Foresta's explorers. Four stories of people involved in the community based project Foresta

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Marseille

Foresta, a project run by Yes We Camp. The collective emergence of a metropolitan park in Marseille's 15th arrondissement.

5 years of Coco Velten

Communities

Marseille

Coco Velten is the story of a challenge taken up in 2017 by the members of Lab Zéro (a public policy innovation laboratory within the Bouches du Rhône Prefecture that brought together members of civil society and public institutions). They set themselves the goal of zero homelessness in Marseilles by 2027, which at the time […]

Tools to activate people's participation in urban dynamics

Urban Dynamics

Marseille

Projects such as Caravanade and participative workcamps help to create a different relationship with public space, for example, when people take part in the the construction of site-specific urban furnishings.

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