A kingdom of new cities: Morocco’s national Villes Nouvelles strategy

Côté‐Roy, Laurence; Moser, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.02.005

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“…Since 2004, the Kingdom of Morocco has been engaged in vast new city-building activities, including through the ambitious state-led "Villes Nouvelles" (new cities) strategy, introduced to address challenges related to rapid urbanization, housing shortages, and to support economic and industrial development across the country. With 19 new city projects currently underway, Morocco is among the most active countries in the world building new cities from scratch after China (Côté-Roy & Moser, 2022).…”

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“…Launched in 2006 as part of Morocco's national city-building strategy (Côté-Roy & Moser, 2022), Zenata Eco-City is a wholly new city presently under construction in the greater Casablanca area. Officially declared a "public utility project" by royal decree in 2006 (SAZ, 2013), the new city embodies Morocco's ambitions for national development, and is part of broader state-led initiatives to reposition the kingdom as a rising economic actor on the global stage and on the African continent.…”

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“Fast urban model-making”: constructing Moroccan urban expertise through Zenata Eco-City

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The research for this article was conducted while the first author was based at McGill University, and greatly benefited from the financial and academic support of McGill's Department of Geography. We thank the anonymous peer reviewers and the editor for their constructive comments on previous versions of the paper. We also extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to all participants who contributed their time, knowledge, and insights through interviews that inform this research. Thanks are also owed to Simon and Marianne Turcotte-Plamondon and Joanna Ondrusek-Roy for many productive conversations that helped to shape this paper.

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confidence: 99%