Marsiglia: eco-metropoli incompiuta / Marseille: unfinished eco-metropolis

At the turn of the twenty-first century, urban policies in France focused on some large cities to compensate for the territorial imbalances due to the prevalence of the metropolitan area of Paris. In the development of this strategy, Marseille, Lyon, Lille have assumed fundamental importance as primary infrastructure nodes located on the periphery or in the centre of the hexagon, generally associated with the geometric shape of continental France. In Marseille, in particular, they replicated the action scheme already tested in the metropolitan area of Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing. Here, in the 1980s, Euralille was launched, an urban transformation program that counted first on the contribution of architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc, Claude Vasconi and, then on the benefits induced by the initiatives that had celebrated the city as the European Capital of Culture.