2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
City-Region Planning and Urban Projects “Coexistence or Integration?”: The Case of Marseille-Aix in France (1990–2006)
Authors : Alain Motte, Jérôme Dubois
Published in: Sustainable City Regions:
Publisher: Springer Japan
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The Marseille-Aix city region developed in a geographic location which conditioned its urban organization. This Mediterranean littoral territory is structured by coastal mountains (Cassis la Ciotat, Calanques, Côte Bleue), fragile humid spaces (Etang de Berre, Camargue), and a river (Rhône and its distributory La Durance). The land littoral itself has constraints: the mountain amphitheater of the Marseille
commune
, Alpilles and Lubéron. All these elements have imposed the circulation corridors and influenced the urbanization processes.