Jean-Charles Lardic (Marseille) – What are the challenges of Marseille and how has the creation of the metropolis improved the capacity to meet the urban development challenges?
Video language: Français
Short Bio
A conversation with Jean-Charles LARDIC, Foresight Director at the Marseille City Council. He is an expert in sustainable development and local governance engineering, General Engineer of Bridges, Water, and Forests.
He has devoted his career to the promotion of sustainable development which he sees in a systemic vision of the territory, society, and the environment, calling more on humans and changes in lifestyles than on massive recourse to technologies. Marseille has been his home port for more than thirty years: until 2010 he managed the city’s sustainable development policies, developed the management and culture of the administration, developed participation and education in eco-citizenship. He established the first Climate Plan. With local stakeholders, he developed the policy of “integrated management” of the sea, the coast, and the islands, launched the Prado artificial reefs program, helped to foreshadow the Calanques National Park, etc.
As Director of Foresight, he has been advising the Mayor of Marseille, elected officials, and the Administration for 12 years to adapt municipal policies and territorial governance to major societal issues to encourage the transition towards a more sustainable and sustainable city. just. It initiates and manages transversal policies, such as the municipal sustainable food policy. Responsible for relaunching local democracy and citizen participation, he develops the engineering necessary to support municipal services in the most inclusive democratic transition possible.
Tags: Governance, metropolisation, Marseille, Barcelona Metropolitan Area
Other description
MedCities, together with the Barcelona Metropolitan Area and European Metropolitan Authorities initiative, launched a political debate on the processes of metropolitan management and intermunicipal cooperation that are currently underway in the Mediterranean region.
MedCities counted with representative of Marseille as a member city.
The conference aimed to discuss lessons learned and propose models and tools to promote metropolitan solutions to urban development challenges faced by Mediterranean cities. To do so, the conference built upon the results of a study undertaken by MedCities, focusing on analysing and understanding how these processes take place and their main barriers and on concluding practical and practitioner-oriented recommendations on how to engage in service pooling initiatives and test metropolitan coordination.
