Thursday, February 23, 2012, at 6:30 PM – Auditorium of MAMAC, Promenade des Arts – Nice
This conference echoes all the projects initiated by both the City of Nice and the Nice Cรดte d’Azur Metropolis, in favor of sustainable mobility.
Urban life is composed of a specific combination of immobility and mobility. Mobility is thus one of the essential components of the city. Since all kinds of “portables” have invaded our daily lives, we have learned to experience movement in the city differently. The time of movement has become a time of full and complete living.
We wander, walk, but also ride in the subway, train, tramway, or bus. These places we pass through, stations and stops, have become major new public spaces of the city, places of urban life and the formation of social bonds, which we need to design accordingly. This requires fully considering mobility as an integral part of the city’s composition.
Born in 1952, Jean-Marie Duthilleul is an architect and engineer. He became involved in urban issues very early on and was appointed as a special advisor for the World Exposition before taking charge, in 1983, of managing major state projects in Paris. Winner of the international competition for the Seoul High-Speed Train station in 1997, he created, along with รtienne Tricaud, the agency AREP within the SNCF group, which is involved in creating numerous stations and the urban planning that results from them. Today, Jean-Marie Duthilleul is working on the project for the redevelopment of the Thiers station in Nice.
