Great Amiens Agency for Development and Urban planning
History and status
The Development and Urban planning agency of Amiens (ADUGA) was created on August, 29th 2005 by the Picardy region. Since October, 17th 2005, the agency helps local authorities in the Grand Amienois area. The agency is composed by eleven collaborators, with different academic and professional backgrounds, who aim to build a local engineering for the general interest in order to implement a sustainable development in Amiens metropolitan pole area.
As the other 49 urban planning agencies, the ADUGA is directed by an executive board composed by 44 members. Four of them represent the government and the Region, the 40 other represent local authorities of the Grand Amienois and joint association of municipalities (Pôle Métropolitain).
Missions
Key words for ADUGA actions are partnership, multidisciplinarity and mutualisation. They sum up the will to work together on a local scale for the territory. The agency helped to elaborate the SCoT (territorial planning document) for the Grand Amiénois, nowadays being reviewed.
The agency team work is divided in six fields :
- Observation. In order to collect, capitalise and spread informations to members and public institutions to understand and get to know the territory better
- Planning. To produce urban and territorial planning documents.
- Thematic analysis. To lead research and studies on specific topics (public transportation, housing, demography, infrastructures)
- Territorial projects. To assist local authorities in infrastructures and equipments projects and procedures
- Public debate and communication. ADUGA contributes to spread informations and knowledge about the Grand Amienois as well as territorial and urban planning issues
- Joint association of municipalities assistance. To support technically, and on an organisational level, the joint association of municipalities
