Best practicesCreated on: 2 April 2026

Nantes (France): From boatyards to creative district

Goal 8.3

Developing public spaces and recreational or cultural amenities in City Port interface zones to create an appealing new area.

Challenge(s)

How can residents, visitors, and businesses be attracted to rehabilitated Port City areas?

Best Practice

Creating cultural clusters is an effective way to promote economic development and enhance an area’s attractiveness, especially during a crisis. By combining and expanding cultural projects and facilities, a vibrant new movement that revitalises old port areas and attracts visitors and residents can be created. This improves the quality of life not only for residents in the Port-City interface but also for the city as a whole. In Nantes, an old industrial neighbourhood was revitalised using a cultural cluster as an incentive for transformation.

This good practice also includes objective 8.2 (Revising the status of port and Port City heritage to properly reflect the historical significance of sites) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.

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