The Urban Planning and Architecture Forum, located at its new site next to the Louis Nucéra Library and neighboring the TNN and MAMAC, presents an exhibition that is both informative and educational about the city of yesterday, today, and especially the one that is being built and will shape tomorrow.
This is why the definition of “Territory in transition” accurately reflects the reality of a city that is renewing, requalifying, and rebuilding through both large structural projects and local actions.
Indeed, as you explore Nice, new public spaces are redesigning the city, degraded neighborhoods are being renovated, and numerous operations (which the exhibition depicts following a guiding thread that highlights its entirety) are deeply transforming it.
Yes, from the historic hill of Cimiez with its Belle Epoque buildings through the vibrant and lively old town, not forgetting the city center and the Promenade des Anglais, the city of Nice is one that moves from the first rays of the sun to the depths of the night, blessed by an enchanting environment, the green of the mountains or the snow-capped peaks of the Southern Alps, not far from the azure blue of the Mediterranean.
The chief architect of this urban project is, of course, its mayor, Christian Estrosi, who wanted to emphasize in his speech that “one of my priorities has been to reconnect with this ambition of innovation to give our city a new momentum.”
He continued: “Antique Nice, baroque Nice as much as Belle-Epoque Nice: we have always been at the forefront and have managed to open new paths to design and organize the city. Following, even anticipating its era, has thus been the spring of our city and its urban dynamism,” and concluded by saying, “calling Nice today a territory in transition only echoes this dynamic inscribed in history.”
“Nice is the fiancée of all,” Christian Estrosi also said, but it is clear he would like to keep the exclusivity: mad love?
