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TYRE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROJECT

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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TYRE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROJECT

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  1. TYRE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROJECT

  2. 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: • Developmental crisis due to insufficient economic growth • Major issues in terms of sustainable development constraining territorial and environmental balances

  3. DIAGNOSIS (1) • 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. • Orientation of the CDS • action plans that control and manage sustainably the city development. • reach an economically developed city reconciled with its environment

  4. DIAGNOSIS (2) • 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 • Tyre should proceed to a reform within its local development policy through establishing a city strategy based on sustainable development

  5. TYRE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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 • Production of territorial products reinforcing the city identity

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. URBAN PLANNING DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY Objective • Alleviation of the anarchic urban growth Action Plans • 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

  13. ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY Objective • Improvement of the city image and living conditions Action Plans • Improvement of the air quality and to fight against sonorous nuisances • Protection of the biodiversity and natural sites • Management of the waste volume • Treatment of the waste water • Protection of the underground water • Rationalization of energy and resources consumption • switching to renewable energies solutions • Reinforcement of the green character of the city

  14. MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (1) Objective • 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. THANK YOU !

  19. LAND USE OLD CITY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE NATURAL RESERVE

  20. URBAN PLANNING STRATEGY PROTECTION OF NATURAL HERITAGE REHABILITATION OF HISTORICAL SITE INTEGRATION OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

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