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The generic theme ‘lnventing urban quality’ used a spatial and social issue to qualify the urban space shared by city dwellers and to classify into families the sites both European towns and cities. At first we sketched contemporary cities problems and questions we have to ask to start the discussions about all European cities. We analyzed the examples and on the Dunkerque present new life in a new scheme.

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Communicating the content of these discussions to us was both a way of giving a more precise meaning to the generic theme of urban quality, but also of raising our awareness of questions about the link between the spatial form that we imagine for the sites and social and environmental factors, based on a new philosophy of urban transformation.

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City-harbour challenge is the cultural dimension of the urban and industrial heritage and maritime landscape. We wish to reconcile the city with the sea through its policy of reclaiming the historical harbour sector, in which the development of Pier 1 would constitute a new step. The programme orientations, with their dominant mixture in the initial phase of cultural amenities, a marina and public spaces, powerfully reflected this objective. Three main direction for urban strategy has to be taken into account- nearness of the city centre to the east, housing estate to the south-west and running industrial estate to the west.

Urban density and urban intensity - relate to questions that cities today need to consider within the context of their sustainability policies, in which environmental concerns are of more importance, but in which the ecological element must nevertheless lead to a qualification of space and an improvement in the urban living conditions of citizens.