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- ETC group
Numerous collectives of architects and planners have emerged in recent years to contribute to a reclama-tion of public space by citizens. It is by testing their tools as architects, by building not “for” but “as resi-dents”, that they intend to fundamentally transform the relationship people have with their own city.
The ten members of the young Collective ETC claim this new dynamic. As they take their neighborhoods in the heart of the Belle de Mai in Marseilles, I move there in turn, and film day after day the practice and the limits of this reinvented urbanism