Agence D'urbanisme Et De Développement De La Région Flandre-dunkerque

What Agence D'urbanisme Et De Développement De La Région Flandre-dunkerque does

AGUR Dunkerque (Agence d'urbanisme Flandre-Dunkerque) is a French semi-public urban planning agency founded in 1972 and headquartered at the Halle aux Sucres in Dunkerque, Hauts-de-France. It provides territorial planning studies, strategic urban project support, and demographic and economic analyses for institutional members including the Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque (CUD), intercommunalities (CCHF, CCFI, Flandre-Lys), the Department of Nord, and the Hauts-de-France Region. The agency operates with 11-50 staff and positions itself as the technical reference for evidence-based territorial decision-making across the Flandre-Dunkerque territory.

The agency's core product is a portfolio of proprietary territorial-observation and decision-support tools built around the 'Toile' ecosystem-mapping methodology, including the registered trademark Toile Industrielle®, Toile de la mobilité, Toile de l'action sociale, and variants for energy, climate, and urban renewal contexts. Supporting instruments include the Veille spatialisée des projets geodatabase (active since January 2016), the Compteur des mobilités monthly mobility tracker, the EDGT 2015 mobility survey (7,001 respondents), the Operation Grand Site des Dunes de Flandre coordination (28 partners), and the Observatoire des villes du transport gratuit. The 2026 LIST (Laboratoire de l'Intelligence artificielle au Service des Territoires) project, funded by FEDER 2021-2027, adds AI-augmented DIGIToile digitization and traffic-simulation capabilities to the platform.

Commercially, AGUR is not a price-setting vendor. It is funded primarily through statutory membership contributions from its institutional members, supplemented by European program grants (FEDER, Interreg V France-Wallonie-Flandre), French government grants, and project-specific commissions from partners such as Dunkerque-Port, CEREMA, GRTGAZ, and ESAD Valenciennes. It co-animates the Club Projet Urbain & Paysage within the FNAU network, co-organized the 39th national meeting of urban planning agencies in 2017, and distributes publications (Cahier de l'AGUR, Datafolio, Econographe, Urba8) plus recurring 'petits déj' stakeholder breakfasts as its principal go-to-market and thought-leadership channels.

Name

Agence D'urbanisme Et De Développement De La Région Flandre-dunkerque

Legal name

Agence d'urbanisme Flandre-Dunkerque

Website

https://agur-dunkerque.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AGUR is a French public urban planning agency founded in 1972 in Dunkerque that provides territorial studies, demographic analyses, and proprietary ecosystem-mapping tools for municipalities, intercommunalities, and regional authorities across the Flandre-Dunkerque territory.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dunkirk

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Public funding and membership contributions: As a public urban planning agency, AGUR is funded through contributions from its institutional members including municipalities, intercommunalities, the Department of Nord, and the Hauts-de-France Region. Additional funding comes from European programs (FEDER), government grants, and project-specific commissions.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

AGUR provides urban planning, territorial observation, and strategic project support for the Flandre-Dunkerque territory. The agency delivers commissioned studies, SCoT (Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale) planning, urban renewal monitoring under the NPNRU program, mobility observation, citizen participation processes, cross-border cooperation initiatives, and climate-air-energy strategy development for its institutional members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SCoT Flandre-Dunkerque Territorial Planning Schéma de Cohérence Territoriale (Territorial Coherence Scheme) for the Flandre-Dunkerque region, approved unanimously on March 10, 2020. Provides strategic land-use planning framework for intercommunal cooperation.
• NPNRU Urban Renewal Monitoring Quality-of-life monitoring service for seven neighborhoods under the Nouveau Programme National de Renouvellement Urbain, with assessment cards establishing baseline indicators.
• Compteur des mobilités Monthly mobility tracking service providing multimodal panorama on mobility practices across Flandre-Dunkerque, developed with CUD, CCHF, CCFI, Flandre-Lys, Department of Nord, Hauts-de-France Region, and DIR Nord.
• Toile Industrielle Visual representation tool of the Dunkerque industrial ecosystem mapping interdependencies between companies to identify circular economy and industrial synergy opportunities.
• Observatoire des villes du transport gratuit Research observatory studying free public transport policies, monitoring developments, and advancing scientific research on transit gratuity, with oversight from a scientific committee.
• LIST - Laboratoire de l'Intelligence artificielle au Service des Territoires AI research project exploring applications of artificial intelligence for territorial systems analysis, decision support, and public participation. Includes DIGIToile (digitizing territorial canvas methods) and traffic modeling components.
• La Toile des mobilités Decision-support tool that superimposes transport networks (road, rail, waterway) with territory flow generators to understand mobility system complexity across the Axe Flandre territory.
• Cross-border Cooperation Services Facilitation of Franco-Belgian territorial planning, European project development, and cross-border cooperation including Interreg V France-Wallonie-Flandre programs.
• Grand Site des Dunes de Flandre Operation Support Coordination of 28 institutional and associative structures plus state services pursuing landscape preservation, visitor experience, and sustainable local development goals for the coastal dunes.
• Resilient School Courtyard Transformation Participatory planning service for transforming school courtyards into resilient spaces, engaging educational teams, students, and parents in co-design with technical support from CEREMA.
• Climate-Air-Energy Strategy Development Strategic briefings for newly elected officials and support for climate-energy strategy, including SRADDET preparation for the Hauts-de-France Region and member intercommunalities.
• Port-City Interface Studies Studies on urban-port interface, industrial territory guides, and sustainable development planning support for Dunkerque-Port, including Port Center video production.

Quantifiable outcome

• 950 participants at the 39th national meeting of urban planning agencies co-organized with Lille in 2017
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Grand Site des Dunes de Flandre PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 201928 institutional and associative structures plus state services coordinated in the Operation Grand Site pursuing landscape preservation, visitor experience, and sustainable local development goals.
• Fédération Nationale des Agences d'Urbanisme (FNAU)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Active membership in the national federation of urban planning agencies. AGUR co-animates the Club Projet Urbain & Paysage with a'urba (Bordeaux) and AUCAME (Caen). Hosted the 39th national meeting in 2017.
• Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque (CUD)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary institutional member and key commissioning partner for territorial planning, urban renewal, mobility studies, and climate-energy strategies.
• Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre (CCHF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMember intercommunal partnership for territorial observation and climate-air-energy strategy development.
• Dunkerque-PortcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPort authority partner for industrial territory guides, sustainable development planning, and port-city interface studies including Port Center video production.
• Dunkerque-PortcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on environmental and landscape best practices guide for industrial port territory, complementary to port domain occupancy specifications.
• Association VIGS (Villes du Transport Gratuit)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint initiative with CUD and VIGS research association to create Observatory of Free Transport Cities, studying free transit policies scientifically.
• CEREMAmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublic expertise center providing technical support for resilient school courtyard projects and territorial planning methodologies.
• Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design (ESAD) ValenciennesmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for Mobile Project House deployment in NPNRU urban renewal, involving students in concertion and communication tools design.
• Hauts-de-France RegioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional government member providing strategic direction, climate-energy support, and participation in SRADDET planning preparation with other regional agencies.
• Learning Center Ville DurablemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSustainable city learning center collaboration for urban renewal communication tools and NPNRU project house deployment.
• GRTGAZmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNatural gas transmission network operator joining AGUR's governance, bringing energy infrastructure expertise to territorial planning.
• Direction Interdépartementale des Routes - NordmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState road authority contributing mobility data to Compteur des mobilités observation tool for comprehensive territorial mobility monitoring.
• ClickanetminorOthersLocal web agency in Saint-Pol-sur-Mer responsible for AGUR website design and technical maintenance.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Esri France: Leading GIS and spatial analytics platform vendor in France. Comparable through the geospatial layer of AGUR's Veille spatialisée and Toile® tools, and a potential technology provider or competitor for territorial data visualization.
• IGN (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière): France's national mapping and geospatial data agency. Comparable as a provider of foundational geospatial data and analytics that AGUR builds upon for its territorial canvas tools, and a potential supplier/competitor for spatialized project monitoring.
• Cerema: Public expertise center for territorial development that AGUR partners with on resilient school-courtyard and mobility projects. Comparable as a public-sector technical resource for French territorial planning, but broader in scope and national rather than regional.

Broad incumbents

• Institut Paris Region (formerly IAU îdF): Large, well-funded urban planning agency for the Île-de-France region. Competes in thought leadership and methodology exports nationally; significantly larger but addresses the same public-sector urban planning agenda.

Direct peers

• AUDACE (Agence d'Urbanisme et de Développement de l'Agglomération de Compiègne): Compiègne-based FNAU agency serving a similar mid-sized French urban territory. Directly comparable in mission, scale and member-funded governance structure for territorial observation and planning.
• a'urba (Agence d'urbanisme Bordeaux Aquitaine): Bordeaux-based FNAU urban planning agency that co-animates the Club Projet Urbain & Paysage with AGUR and AUCAME. Directly comparable in mission, methodology and member-funded structure, serving a different metropolitan territory.
• ADUGA (Agence d'urbanisme du Grand Amiénois): Amiens-based FNAU member agency operating in Hauts-de-France. Directly comparable in mission, member-funded structure and SCoT/mobility/urban-renewal deliverables for a regional prefecture.
• ADUAN (Agence de développement et d'urbanisme de la région nancéienne): Nancy-based FNAU agency comparable in scale, member-funded structure and SCoT/urban-renewal mandate for a French metropolitan area. Operates with a similar observation-and-planning service portfolio.
• Agence d'urbanisme de Lille Métropole: Lille-based FNAU agency that co-organized the 39th national FNAU meeting with AGUR in 2017 (950 participants). Closest geographic peer within Hauts-de-France and direct collaborator on territorial studies.
• AUCAME (Agence d'urbanisme de Caen Normandie Métropole): Caen-based FNAU member agency that co-animates the Club Projet Urbain & Paysage alongside AGUR. Directly comparable as a member-funded French urban planning agency of similar size producing SCoT-level territorial studies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/agurdunkerque

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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