Le Havre Harbour
© Port Autonome du Havre

        Le Havre 2008 meeting (Oct.22-24)
             AS AN OPEN SEA FEVER  
    The city and its larger-scale territories

 The 29th Annual Meeting of the FNAU network is now under preparation,
the next important step being the one-day meeting of the Steering Committee next April 4 at IAURIF / Paris.
Cities have progressively grown and widened their area of influence.
They became thus urban or metropolitan areas, and they now set up various new relationships with some other territories, within their region, beyond its limits, even sometimes abroad. They develop economic, social and cultural links at the world-scale with other places which may be geographically far but "fonctionnally" and culturally very close from them.
The 2008 Meeting will focus over these larger-scale territories of the City, in terms of sustainable planning, of economic and urban attractiveness, and of social and political governance...
                                    MORE INFORMATION WITHIN THE NEXT WEEKS !!!!!