Reassembling Marseille’s mosaic: urban planning in service of a post-World War II imagined identity

Figures & data

Figure 1. View of the Hôtel-de-Ville district and the ongoing reconstruction of the Vieux Port area. Photo taken by Léon Borel, 04.10.1950. [195 Fi 407 / Archives de Marseille].

Figure 2. Loggia façade of the nine-building development Parc Kalliste, built in 1958 and financed with capital gained by private, Indochina-repatriated timber company entrepreneurs. [Illustration by Yasmina Zian, original image and documentation in ‘544 – Parc Kalliste’ in: Notices monographiques des 80 ensembles et résidences étudiés. 2004/2005 Thierry Durousseau.].

Figure 3. View across the Vieux Port to the reconstructed quay and the town hall (cf. Figure 1 seven years earlier, where the neighbourhood was still barren). The three main buildings on the quay were designed by Fernand Pouillon. Photo taken in 1957. [6 Fi 11325 / Conseil départemental 13 / Archives départementales – Tous droits réservés].

Figure 4. 1950 aerial view of the rebuilt Vieux-Quartiers (with Pouillon’s ‘immeubles’), Belsunce, the Vieux Port, and the Jardin du Pharo (from left to right). [6 Fi 6366 / Conseil départemental 13 / Archives départemental – Tous droits résérvés].

Figure 5. View of the northern industrial area, parts of Marseille Fos and the HLM neighbourhoods in the background. [Image courtesy of Muriel van Ruymbeke, April 2024].

Figure 6. View of the cruise ship terminal and Euromediterranée from a ferry headed to Corsica. [Image courtesy of Muriel van Ruymbeke, April 2024].