Transcript DIAGNOSTIC DE LA STRATEGIE DE LA VILLE DE TYR

TYRE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROJECT
INTRODUCTION
Tyre is a Lebanese Mediterranean millenary city
 Its archaeological vestiges have Phoenician, Greek,
Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Mameluke and Ottoman
roots
Tyre faces problems at different scales:
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 Developmental
crisis due to insufficient economic growth
 Major issues in terms of sustainable development
constraining territorial and environmental balances
DIAGNOSIS (1)
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Major stakes
Socio-economic:
demographic growth, poverty, unemployment
Environmental: galloping ecological degradation
Urban: anarchic urban development, informal settlements,
precarious zones and misery belts.
Patrimonial: plunders and clandestine digs, excessive and abusive
touristic activity.
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Orientation of the CDS
action plans that control and manage sustainably the city
development.
 reach an economically developed city reconciled with its
environment
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DIAGNOSIS (2)
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Local economic development strategies
minimize environmental constraints through measures that
ensure coastline protection, fight against soil degradation, marine
pollution
 Urban growth control while taking into account the cultural and
natural heritage while improving living conditions, reducing social
disparities and reinforcing urban governance
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Tyre should proceed to a reform within its local development
policy through establishing a city strategy based on
sustainable development
TYRE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Objective
Focus on the satisfaction of the community social needs, in
particular vulnerable population
Action Plans
Introduction of a participative policy, fighting against
exclusion
Optimization of educational and health systems
Adoption of an integrated local development plan, based on
solidarity, social equity, poverty eradication, living
conditions improvement
Integration of vulnerable groups
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Objective
Stimulation of economic growth respecting environmental
constraints and targeting poor and middle classes
Improvement of the city competitiveness on the national and
regional scale
Action Plans
Promoting and reinforcing micro and small enterprises and
industries
Identification of the city needs in terms of job creation
Building up working population skills
TOURISTIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (1)
Objective
 Identification, valorization and preservation of the heritage
elements
Action Plans
 Improvement of tourists stay quality
developing
the touristic infrastructure
performing the hotel management
organizing vocational training to the labor force working within
this sector
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Production of territorial products reinforcing the city identity
TOURISTIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (2)
Creation of tourist attractions such as museums, patrimony
house, organization of festivals
Rehabilitation of the traditional architectural fabric
Creation of leisure activities along the coastline and
preservation of the marine public domain
Estimation of the tourists’ impact on the natural and historical
sites
Definition of local dynamics in order to ensure the durability
of the touristic sector
Integration of the touristic development strategy within the
territory dynamics
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AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Objective
 Optimal management of agricultural spaces
 Fishery Preservation and Development
Action Plans
 Improvement of the quality of the product
 implantation of food processing industries
 Introduction of the organic agriculture
 Preservation of the agricultural spaces from urban sprawl
 Reform within the fishery policy through:
improving the techniques and protecting fishermen rights
Development of sustainable aquaculture
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COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Objective
 Commercial vitality and diversity
 Improvement of the quality of life
within the city and reinforcement of
quarters’ conviviality
Action Plans
 Development of commercial zones and diversification of the
supply
 Development of the accessibility of commercial areas: solving
parking problems, developing sidewalks and pedestrian areas
 Maintenance of public spaces within the commercial areas
URBAN PLANNING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Objective
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Alleviation of the anarchic
urban growth
Action Plans
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Integration of peripheral quarters
to the development process
 Revision of the city master plan
 Renovation of the urban fabric while avoiding gentrification
Conservation of the social and economic diversity
 Development of the city gates
 De-densification of the urban fabric without affecting the residential
and economic functions of the city quarters
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ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Objective
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Improvement of the city image and living conditions
Action Plans
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Improvement of the air quality and to fight against sonorous nuisances
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Protection of the biodiversity and
natural sites
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Management of the waste volume
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Treatment of the waste water
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Protection of the underground water
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Rationalization of energy and resources consumption
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switching to renewable energies solutions
Reinforcement of the green character of the city
MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (1)
Objective
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Evolvement of Local authority role from services supplier to
development agent
Action Plan
Improvement of the local governance through
decentralization process
reinforcement of the institutional structure of the local
authority
 Adoption of the participative approach through
involving all stakeholders including citizens in dialogue and
decision-making
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MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (2)
Building capacity of local administration staff
 Promotion of the establishment of a local observatory aiming at
monitoring and defining priorities ensuring the efficiency of the
CDS
 Support the local strategic planning by adopting new computer
tools and software (GIS)
 Cooperation with national, regional and global partners in
exchanging knowledge and experience
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CONCLUSION
Inter-relation between the three pillars of the sustainable
development results in:
Generation of new sustainable economic opportunities
respecting the natural, cultural and human environment
Promotion of an active participative approach, integrating
the sustainable development to the social culture
Promotion of the social equity and fight against social
exclusion and urban segregations
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CONCLUSION (2)
Valorization of the natural sites, the patrimony, landscapes
while ensuring ecosystems balance, resources durability
Reinforcement of security measures on all levels:
solve
insalubrities problems, alleviate natural and technological
risks, reduce pollution
Improvement
of
the
local
governance
through
decentralization and the reinforcement of the municipality
structure responsible for the management and control of the
implementation of the City Development Strategy
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