The larger Lille metropolis has existed from when its principal cities, Lille and Roubaix and Tourcoing, joined together, while nonetheless preserving considerable agricultural spaces within its enlarged limits, directly in contact with urban sprawl. Using a number of analytical studies as its base, the project seeks to transform the existing situation. “Agricultural semicircles”, taken into consideration as systems, become landscaping structures, forcefully modifying the ways in which the larger agricultural landscape and the city meet up with one another.

The task here lies in the creation, the revitalization, of a genuine agriculture within the larger city limits, a diffuse system of agricultural parks, a sort of widened edge around the central urban area. This edge becomes the wide agricultural and landscape shore surrounding the eco-metropolis.