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Building Tomorrow, One City at a Time
The "Ville de Demain" programme and the work of urban thinkers like Nicolas Régnier are quietly reshaping how French-speaking communities imagine their shared spaces.
By Aïcha · 2 min read
The "Ville de Demain" programme and the work of urban thinkers like Nicolas Régnier are quietly reshaping how French-speaking communities imagine their shared spaces.
The "Ville de Demain" (City of Tomorrow) programme, championed by figures like urban thinker Nicolas Régnier, is quietly redefining how communities imagine, design, and inhabit their cities.

Forget the gallery circuit, the most urgent contemporary art in France's oldest city is happening on walls, stairwells, and sun-bleached shutters.

From Marseille's textile workshops to the hills of Provence, a new generation of makers is pulling colour back from the soil.