"It is our aggressive policies that force the development of the slums and keep stigmatising them as being undignified. If we look at the slums differently, if we would dare to finally add spaces and relations to what is already built in there, it would then appear as a continuation of our city and not its downside. Such is the ambition of the call for ideas “Reinventing Calais” (Réinventer Calais): to guide the slums towards their reinvention; turn them into our city’s resort, even an economic resort.”  This is an excerpt of the interview that Natacha Bouchart, Mayor of Calais, never gave, soon to be published in the Other information magazine of the city of Calais”.
Pérou - Pôle d'Exploration des Ressources urbaines (Urban resources exploration pole)