The larger metropolitan area has a population estimated at 2.22 million, and it's the second-largest metro area in France behind Paris.

“She used to tell me she worried her building would fall down,” Harbaoui said. The city is located on the Mediterranean coast near the mouth of the Rhône. Please check your download folder. Less than three weeks earlier, an expert had deemed the first floor of one building unsafe and the building was evacuated, but the residents were told it was safe to go back. The site of a popular Assumption Day pilgrimage, it was the most visited site in Marseille. September 2019: definition with citizens and stakeholders of the engagement program July 2019: delivery of the first bricks of the platform November 2019: deployment of mobile sensors on schools, pilot cities and postal vehicles 2020: incubation of the project, animation of the engagement program September 2020: 1st Annual Air Quality Program 2021: workshop on data monetization, business … This was the reason why it was decided to build an engineering project to transport the water from the Durance River to Marseille. The residents, after being evicted following a peril order, were forced to return to their apartments.

It took more than 30 years of work to build a complex network of 85 kilometres of underground canals and pipes that would bring drinking water to everybody. Marseille has the oldest chamber of commerce in France, established in 1599. “I worry my building is slowly caving in,” she said. Corrupt, dangerous and brutal to its poor – but is Marseille the future of France? Please check your download folder. After the two buildings collapsed, on rue d’Aubagne in the Noailles district near Marseille’s picturesque old port on 5 November, it took days of searching through the rubble to find the victims. Citizens’ protests groups are asking how a city that has spent millions in the past decade on high-profile waterfront museum projects and attracting cruise-ship visitors could abandon residents and architecture to fatal neglect. It adjoins the Jardin botanique E.M. Heckel.

Trust in politicians has plummeted after investigative journalists in Marseille revealed that some politicians were themselves renting out squalid and dangerous flats at high prices. “I was a cutting a client’s hair when officials came into my shop saying: ‘You’ve got to leave because the building across the road might fall down,’” said Peace Uzoechi, a now working in a temporary shop. This charming little palace opened its doors in 1869 to celebrate the end of the difficulties caused by the lack of water in the city during this time.

Marseille Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in Marseille. 2nd largest French city : according to population: 869,815 (INSEE 2019 figures) Largest French Communauté Communes, Marseille Provence Métropole, totalling 18 towns and villages with a population of 1,200,000.; Area : 240 km2 including 100 km2 of natural areas. A burly teenager on an upper floor had been regularly told by his father not to step on parts of the increasingly uneven kitchen floor, which he feared was subsiding. Marseille is officially the sunniest major city in France with over 2,900 hours of sunshine while the average sunshine in the country is around 1,950 hours.

The current metro area population of Marseille-Aix-en-Provence in 2020 is 1,608,000, a 0.31% increase from 2019. Most other cities in western Europe have pushed their poorest to the outskirts, but Marseille still has diverse, low-income, working-class districts in its centre. Housing campaigners have warned of a deliberate policy of neglect. Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Marseille-Aix-en-Provence, France metro area from 1950 to 2020. This crisis must not be used as an excuse to accelerate moves to push poorer people out of the centre.