Metropolitan Booklets: Perspectives on Mediterranean Metropolises
The unique perspective of urban development professionals on the metropolitan changes across the three shores of the Mediterranean.
The Metropolitan Booklets stem from 10 years of knowledge generated during the Metropolitan Seminars led by AVITEM, in collaboration with the French Development Agency. Since 2014, these seminars have served as a platform for training and exchange among participants—urban planning and territorial development professionals—hailing from across the Mediterranean region.
A synthesis of learnings, reflections, and collective proposals, the Booklets offer a clear analytical framework for professionals, researchers, students, and informed citizens alike.
The Booklets of the Metropolitan Seminars are produced in partnership with AFD Campus, the Delegation for External Action of Local Authorities of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and the European Union as part of the simplified ERASMUS programme.
Booklets of 4 Mediterranean Metropolises
Dans la diversité de l’espace méditerranéen, chaque territoire est une découverte. Nos carnets métropolitains proposent une exploration sans modèles de développement préconçu, autour de quatre axes.
- Reconfigure – geographical, historical, political, and demographic analyses of territories in the long term and of contemporary issues.
- Re-explore: symbolic interpretation of the territory’s DNA, political visions, and strategic issues.
- Re-experiment: what metropolitan development and public policies.
- Op-port-unity: projects that strengthen the connections of metropolitan areas in the face of major future challenges, testimonies from professionals.
BOOKLET of Booklets
A synthesis on the role of metropolitan areas in Mediterranean development: what perspectives for a shared framework and common grammar, and what foundations for successful projects and modes of cooperation?
BOOKLET of Territorial Resilience
Reflections and exchange of practices on exemplary projects, addressing issues of governance, vulnerability to climate change, learning lessons from the Covid-19 period (the cases of Barcelona, Marseille, Bologna, Aix-Marseille-Provence, Tirana), and designing the territorial project as a tool for resilience.