SUMMARY
For almost thirty years, the Agence d'Urbanisme et de Rénovation Urbaine (URPAM) has been rebuilding and requalifying entire sections of the central urban area of a major French Mediterranean city, in what is now considered the largest urban renewal operation of a city center in Europe. This case illustrates how this small public project administration, with its initial technocratic culture, was led to strengthen and enrich its consultation practices in urban development beyond legal requirements, to establish denser interactions with local communities, and finally to reinvent by trial and error a language of participation based on temporary urbanism, local initiatives, and the projects of inhabitants and future inhabitants (Moore 1995; Soldo et al. 2019). [...]
Paper presented at a peer-reviewed conference - International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Doha, February 6-9.
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Christophe ALAUX, Director, Chaire Attractivité et Nouveau Marketing Territorial (A&NMT) and Institut de Management Public et Gouvernance Territoriale (IMPGT) - christophe.alaux@univ-amu.fr
Laura CARMOUZE, Deputy Director of the Attractiveness and New Territorial Marketing Chair (A&NMT) - laura.carmouze@univ-amu.fr
Emil TURC, University Professor at the Institut de Management Public et Gouvernance Territoriale (IMPGT) - emil.turc@univ-amu.fr
Léonard GOURBIER, Senior Lecturer at Université Paris Dauphine PSL - PhD in Management Sciences - linkedIn
