Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis
The Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis is a public authority in charge of urban planning, regional development and economic growth, covering an area of 3148 km². France's largest metropolis (6 times the size of Greater Lyon, 4 times the size of Greater Paris, 2 times the size of Greater London), Aix-Marseille-Provence is France's 1st largest port, 2nd largest in the Mediterranean, and boasts Europe's largest metropolitan coastline (255 km, including Europe's largest salt lake, the Etang de Berre) and a population of nearly 2 million. A natural metropolis, with vast and renowned landscapes (including the Parc National des Calanques, the Luberon and Camargue Regional Parks, the Côte Bleue Marine Park, and the Grand Site Sainte Victoire), Aix-Marseille-Provence also boasts a relatively dense urban fabric, notably around its central city, Marseille, but also within other city cores representing major polarities, including Aix-en-Provence.
Aix-Marseille-Provence, together with the Agence nationale du renouvellement urbain (ANRU), is currently responsible for 21 urban renewal projects (NPNRU), including 14 in Marseille alone. These 21 NPNRU projects represent a public investment of some 3 billion euros over the next 10 years, calling for even greater private investment to design, build and manage this new territorial offering of public facilities, infrastructure, offices and premises, and housing (public and private). This massive plan to rebuild the "city on top of the city" will make it possible to meet the challenges of modernizing our residential life, for a better quality of life, of intensifying the city to preserve the environment within the framework of Zero Net Artificialization (ZAN), of bringing living and employment areas closer together and creating a vertical and neighborhood-scale mix between housing and productive real estate (service sector but also crafts, urban logistics, etc.), and modernizing the city's infrastructure.), and to modernize the real estate offer by integrating the best industrial solutions in terms of b ti climate resilience and product decarbonization. This is the challenge of a Sustainable and Productive City in the Mediterranean context that we share with our partner, the Etablissement Public d'Aménagement (EPA) Euroméditerranée.
The EUROMEDITERRANEE National Interest Project
Launched in 1995 by the French government in partnership with local authorities, and managed by the
the Etablissement Public d'Aménagement of the same name, Euroméditerranée is an urban renewal project
Euroméditerranée is an urban renewal project covering 480 hectares between the Vieux-Port
Saint Charles train station and the Capitaine Gèze multimodal hub. With 750,000 m² of
offices, hosting some 50,000 jobs, Euroméditerranée is the leading metropolitan business
and France's 3rd largest business district. The project has also led to the
production of 10,000 new homes and the renovation of 5,280 older homes.
Euroméditerranée's mission is based on the economic development of the area at the heart
of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, and urban development, with the creation of
public spaces and facilities, parks, cultural venues, housing, offices and shops,
transportation and parking infrastructures.
With the extension of 170 hectares to the north of the original 310 hectares, Euroméditerranée
enters a new phase. Awarded the EcoCité label and supported by the
Investissements d'Avenir program, this new perimeter is intended to be a territory for
for experimentation in urban development. Major urban innovations, such as seawater loops
seawater loops, have accompanied this development and positioned the area as a
spearhead of the Mediterranean sustainable city.
Euroméditerranée social networks :
https://www.facebook.com/Eurom
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https://www.instagram.com/euro
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https://www.linkedin.com/compa
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Here, the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis and Euroméditerranée are experimenting with the Mediterranean city of tomorrow: sustainable and resilient, productive and inclusive, connected and intelligent.
The Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis and the Euroméditerranée public development establishment are leading a "Sustainable City Demonstrator" program, approved by the French government as part of the AMI launched by the CDC in partnership with the ANRU (PIA4 France 2030). This joint project is dedicated to the design (incubation phase with studies and project management) and demonstration (investment and construction phase to build demonstrator blocks) of what a sustainable and productive city can be in a Mediterranean context. Our concept of the Sustainable and Productive City in the Mediterranean seeks to combine living and working spaces, with a view to sustainability and climate resilience.
With this in mind, the Metropole and EPAEM are working on a strategy and development project for a cluster of coherent neighborhoods: Les Fabriques, Les Crottes and Smartseille within the scope of the Operation of National Interest (OIN), under EPAEM management, and Cabucelle and Docks Libres, within two NPNRU areas, under the management of the Metropole AMP.
The project focuses on two main challenges, broken down into four major incubation actions:
Firstly, the project aims to make development sober by operationalizing the circular economy of land and construction products, equipment, materials and waste.
To achieve this, 3 incubation actions:
-the development of a land management platform,
-a unit for the production of building materials from soil
-the development of a reuse platform.
Secondly, the Sustainable City Demonstrator project aims to generate resilience in the area by restoring a natural environment (the Aygalades stream) and managing flood risk.
One main incubation action has been identified for this challenge: the creation of the Parc des Aygalades by EPAEM.
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