AURBA

What AURBA does

A'urba (legal name: a'urba, agence d'urbanisme Bordeaux Aquitaine) is a French non-profit urban planning agency (association de loi 1901 sans but lucratif) headquartered at Hangar G2, Bassin à flot n°1, quai Armand Lalande in Bordeaux. The agency serves local authorities and public planning stakeholders in the Bordeaux, Gironde, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions, providing strategic decision-support through diagnostic analyses, prospective reflections, and project approaches. Its primary customers are public sector entities including Bordeaux Métropole, the Gironde Department, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, and local collectives (collectivités locales girondines).

A'urba's core deliverables are studies and cartographies across seven thematic areas — urban planning and landscape (146 studies), mobility and transport (112), populations and modes of life (92), habitat (89), environment and climate (84), economy and employment (53), and territorial planning (48) — totaling 624 cataloged productions. Underlying this output is a multi-partner territorial observatory infrastructure covering habitat and lifestyles, rents, real estate markets, economy and employment, mobility and rhythms of life, and nature and agriculture, with URSSAF and various territorial entities as data partners. The agency also publishes the CaMBo (Cahiers de la Métropole Bordelaise) regional journal and runs conferences, workshops, and public presentations.

The business model is subscription/recurring institutional partnership funding: an annual work program is co-constructed with public authority partners and financed through these institutional agreements. GTM is sales-led and partnership-based, with marketing channels limited to LinkedIn, email newsletters, and website publications. The agency is led by Director General Simon du Moulin de La barthète, with a headcount of 1-10 employees.

Name

AURBA

Legal name

a'urba, agence d'urbanisme Bordeaux Aquitaine

Website

https://aurba.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

A'urba is a French non-profit urban planning agency (loi 1901) that provides territorial studies, observatories, and cartographies to local and regional authorities in the Bordeaux, Gironde, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions, supporting public policy design and decision-making.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Urban Planning Consulting and Territorial Studies

NAICS

Administration of Urban Planning and Community and Rural Development (925120), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (925)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Regional & Land Use Planning (BPAHAKAE)

Keywords

• Urban planning studies
• Territorial observatories
• Public policy consulting
• Demographic analysis
• Cartography services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bordeaux

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Partnership funding: As an association under the 1901 law (non-profit), A'urba operates through annual partnership programs with public authorities. The work program is co-constructed with partners and financed through these institutional partnerships.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

A'urba is a non-profit urban planning agency (association loi 1901) that conducts urban planning studies, territorial analyses, and demographic projections for local authorities. It operates multiple partnership-based observatories covering habitat, mobility, economy, environment, and agriculture across the Bordeaux, Gironde, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions. The agency provides diagnostic analyses, prospective reflections, and project approaches as decision-support tools for public-sector partners.

Product overview

AURBA is an urban planning agency serving the Bordeaux and Nouvelle-Aquitaine territories. The organization operates as a public research and consulting body rather than a technology product company. Its portfolio consists of territorial studies and analyses across multiple thematic areas (urban planning and landscape, environment and climate, housing, mobility, economic development, demographics), supported by thematic observatories that collect and analyze data, and the CaMBo regional journal publication.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urban Planning Studies and Research
• Territorial Observatories
• CaMBo Review

Quantifiable outcome

• Conducts hundreds of territorial studies annually across multiple thematic areas

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Observatory partners (URSSAF, various territorial entities)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-partner observatory systems covering habitat and modes of life, rents, real estate markets, economy and employment, mobility and rhythms of life, nature and agriculture. Partners include URSSAF and various local and regional authorities who participate in joint data collection and analysis.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Egis: Broad incumbent: large French engineering and urban planning consultancy competing for public-sector planning contracts at national scale, with broader service portfolio than A'urba.
• CEREMA: Broad incumbent: national French public expert agency covering risks, environment, mobility and territorial planning at greater scale and across all regions, with overlapping thematic mandates.
• Artelia: Broad incumbent: large French urban planning and engineering consultancy with multi-disciplinary services, competing for public-sector urban planning mandates across France.

Others

• FNAU (Fédération Nationale des Agences d'Urbanisme): Others: national federation that coordinates and represents the network of French urban planning agencies, including A'urba, defining shared standards and methodology.
• INSEE: Others: French national statistics institute that produces demographic and territorial data, partnering with A'urba on observatory work and providing overlapping public data inputs.
• ADEME: Others: French national agency for ecological transition that operates in overlapping thematic areas (environment, climate, mobility) and partners with or competes for environmental planning mandates relevant to A'urba's work.

Direct peers

• AUAT (Agence d'urbanisme et d'aménagement Toulouse aire métropolitaine): Direct peer: French urban planning agency operating the same association model, providing studies and planning support to public authorities in the Toulouse metropolitan area.
• APUR (Agence d'urbanisme de l'agglomération parisienne): Direct peer: largest French urban planning agency, operating the same loi 1901 association model as A'urba, producing studies and observatories for public authorities in the Paris region.
• Agence d'urbanisme de l'aire métropolitaine Lyon-Saint-Étienne (UrbaLyon): Direct peer: French urban planning agency operating the same non-profit association model, producing studies and territorial analysis for the Lyon-Saint-Étienne metropolitan area.
• Agence d'urbanisme de Marseille (AGAM): Direct peer: French urban planning agency serving the Marseille metropolitan area under the same loi 1901 association model, producing planning studies and territorial analysis for local authorities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aurba1

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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