Located in the municipality of Nablus in the West Bank, the Nablus Boulevard is an urban project that is part of the Sustainable Urban Development and Heritage component of the decentralized cooperation between the cities of Lille and Nablus. It aims at the requalification of a 4.5 acres industrial wasteland that will be completed by 2025. The renewal of this sector, marked by the presence of territorial resources, is based on the will to propose a sustainable and integrated urban development, through the provision of an adapted, accessible and sustainable space, services and equipment. A large part of this cooperation concerns urban planning issues and the overall strategy of Nablus in terms of urban planning.
This is why this workshop thesis involves five urban planning students from the University of Lille and two urban planning students from the National University of An-Najah, alongside the CAUE du Nord and the two respective municipalities. At the end, the aim is to imagine a new system for designing sustainable urban projects, based on the development of territorial resources. More concretely, it is a question of imagining and creating participatory tools to establish a dialogue between the citizens of the city and the urban project leaders.
