Highlights

Network of Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Developers: 4th Annual Conference

Lead Organization(s)

• Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
• EPA Euroméditerranée (EPAEM)

Partners

Co-organizing & hosting the event:

• OCEMO (in the context of the Mediterranean Economic Week)
• SERM : Montpellier metropolis urban authorities

And, in the framework of SUD-Med programme:

• European Investment Bank
• French Agency for Development
• Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean
• Center for Mediterranean Integration

Context

« Sustainable cities », « Smart cities », « Intelligent cities ». These terms convey a profound upheaval in economic and financial approaches to urban development and a fundamental change in the way in which urban projects need to be implemented. The fourth annual conference of the Mediterranean Developers Network sets out to explore these new trends in developing united, attractive and desirable cities.

Urban project mechanisms are moving towards more partnership-based and collaborative approaches which are regularly adapted, include high levels of complexity, and increasingly put users at the centre. At the same time open data and digital smart cities make it increasingly important to build balanced governance schemes for the design of urban spaces and infrastructure, taking into account their uses and associated information technology.

The Mediterranean Developers Network (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Euroméditerranée) brings together a community of professionals and urban project leaders from all around the Mediterranean, and international and multilateral financial institutions, to focus on specific and pre-operational topics for the coordination and management of major urban projects. It is open to anyone involved in urban development who is interested in the latest changes to the operational and financial engineering of sustainable urban projects.

Objectives

Following the past two editions, the annual meeting of the network focused on “Building the sustainable Mediterranean cities of tomorrow: Innovative urban projects and new business models” and objectives consisted of:

• Bringing together professionals and financial institutions, stakeholders/leaders of urban development on the 3 rims of Mediterranean
• Transfering and sharing expertise on concrete, operational issues of the management & the implementation of urban projects on the topic of “smart urban planning practices and innovative business models for the implementation of urban projects in the Mediterranean”
• Identifying key factors for success and leverage to create real & sustainable economic and urban value in Mediterranean urban places.

Organization

Day 1: Villa Méditerranée, Marseille

• Smart city planning practices & new urban ecosystems in the Mediterranean cities: enlarging the scope of urban planning. Opening roundtable
• Demonstrate! Interacting & co-building urban pilot projects & innovative districts: from concept to action. Workshop #1
• User centric initiatives, interactive projects & collaborative practices for desired urban places. Workshop #2

Day 2: SERM urban authority, Montpellier

• How to finance strategic urban infrastructure? Mediterranean urban labs. Workshop #3
• “De Montpellier à la mer”, a Mediterranean, pilot eco-city project. Field visit.

Resources

• Summary and feedback Report (English, French)
• Summary and Feedback PowerPoint (English, French)
• Isabelle Baraud-Serfaty, Network of Mediterranean City Planners:  The Challenge of New Urban Fabric Facing Planners (French)
• Network of Sustainable Mediterranean Operators and Planners:  Beyond Organization, the Eco-neighborhood of the Union (French)
• Network of Mediterranean Planners, 2015 Annual Conference: Eco-Cité Zenata (French)
• Magali Vergnet-Covo, The Incubateur de la Ville durable (IVD) : Vivapolis (French) 
• Marc Dartigalongue, Project Manager, Territories and Development: Review of the Experience of Including Diverse Actors to Development Operations (French)
• Mohamed Lakhdar Gasmi, CEO-North of Sfax Management and Study Company: Taparura Project, from Urban Ambition to Reality (French) Interactive Animated City Presentation
• Euroméditerranée and Eiffage Immobilier: The "Making of" the Genesis of a Neighborhood (French)  
• Pierre Arnaud Barthel, AFD, Project Manager, Dr. Walid Darwish, SFD, Head of Environment Dept and Ms. Elda Solloso, I2UD, Local Development Consultant: Linking Urban Upgrading And Led in 4 of Cairo’s Unplanned Areas (English)
• The Régie Data, a Missing Link (French)
• Papa Ameth Keita, Senegalese Federation of Housing and Cyril Royez, urbaMonde: Decentralized Financial Mechanisms to Improvement Precarious Areas (French)  
• Network of Sustainable Mediterranean Operators and Planners: Evolution of the Developer Role (French)
• Mustafa Ibrahim, Urban Management Division head and Maha Naja, Town Planning Department Manager, Solidere: Innovative Urban Projects and New Business Models (English)  
• The SERM and SAAM, City Planners and Montpellier Metropolis Mediterranean: Presentation (French) Press kit: la Mantilla Project  (French)