Mission Racine


Mission Racine, officially the "Interministerial working group for the tourist coastal infrastructure of Languedoc-Roussillon" for popular tourism.

Development

The working group was founded on June 18, 1963 and, as a centrally government-controlled initiative, represents the intermediate step from private tourism infrastructure planning to the "Schéma de cohérence territoriale", which has been established in France since the 1980s.
The planning affected both established locations that had been developed for tourism since the 19th century as well as new urban plans that had been created,
La Grande-Motte, Cap d'Agde, Carnon ,
Gruissan ,
Port-Leucate ,
Port-Barcarès,
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Saint-Cyprien,
Balaruc-les-Bains to 650,000 beds. Since the 2000s, attempts have been made to convert around 195,000 little-used second homes into permanent dwellings, although there are climatic problems concerning all the houses that will be below sea level.

Architecture

The Mission Racine is formerly structured around Georges Candilis and some other architects.
Various architectures are set up from

Foundational elements

and mountain resorts for leisure and regional economics were built up in the French government Action plan.
Pierre Racine :
"Why, you may ask, did the government launch this vast project to develop the Languedoc-Roussillon coastline last year? Because, paradoxically, at a time when millions of tourists are flocking to our Mediterranean coasts, 180 kilometers of coastline remain virtually untouched, despite already considerable efforts. For the first time, a regional urban development plan was drawn up by architects, monitored by technicians and approved by the government.
There are three reasons why the state took charge of this vast undertaking, the first of its scale.
  • Firstly, the need for a comprehensive plan: for the first time, a regional urban development plan was drawn up by architects, monitored by technicians and approved by the government.
  • Secondly, the scale of the facilities required justified the involvement of the State, local authorities and all private resources.
Firstly, the State is directly responsible for the basic infrastructure: roads, harbors, sanitation, drinking water supply, mosquito control, etc. The local authorities that we wish to involve politically in this work, i.e. essentially the départements and the communes concerned, will be responsible for rehabilitating the land and the stations that the State will develop.
The private sector will play a decisive role in this development, building hotels, villas, houses and vacation camps; the specialized financial and real-estate groups, but also all social groups, youth clubs, tourism groups, etc., and lastly, private individuals wishing to acquire land to build their own villa;
  • There is a third reason why the State has intervened: despite the considerable expansion of leisure tourism, it is not accessible to everyone today.
The Languedoc-Roussillon coast is the perfect opportunity to create the first tourism business for all. Not only in our resorts, our architects will tell you all about it. There will be developments of all kinds, but we intend to sell the land to social groups at a differential social price, i.e., at a lower price. To carry out this vast undertaking, the administration itself has had to adapt, as it is too compartmentalized to successfully complete a work requiring synthesis from conception and coordination to execution at all times.
An interministerial mission was set up under the regional planning delegation, comprising the five ministries primarily concerned, the tourism commissioner, the Prefect of the Montpellier region and his general secretary, and Mr Pierre Raynaud , and the government delegation, to draw up the plan and have it implemented by all the Parisian and provincial administrations working on behalf of their commune.
The interministerial mission is a conductor to whom the government has given a mandate to act and succeed, and this is what she intends to do."
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