At 9 AM on November 5, 2018, a pair of buildings in central Marseille collapsed, taking the lives of eight people hailing from Algeria, the Comoros, France, Italy, and Tunisia. This devastating toll of urban decay reflects both the diversity of the district and the hardship of living in Marseille, a city marked for centuries by migration, poverty, and social struggle. Divided along ethnicity and class lines, with wealthy conservatives dominating the south and an energetic but pauperized community of immigrant origins in the north, Marseille highlights the tensions stemming from problematic governance, a lack of housing-stock maintenance, a constant influx of migrants, widespread privatization of services, and rapid, profit-driven, and destructive post-industrial urbanization. Migrant Marseille: Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity (Ruby Press, 2020) examines this complex city through the prism of the correlations between migration on space, architecture, and territory. In this conversation with the editors; Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Assistant Professor of Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Marc Angélil, Professor Emeritus of Architecture & Design, ETH Zurich, and Leonard Streich, co-founder of Something Fantastic, they will discuss the role of planners in fostering tactics and strategies to support social and spatial integration.
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