Editing Lille (section)

===Postwar===
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[[File:Euralille tours.jpg|alt=Euralille quarter|thumb|The [[Euralille|Euralille quarter]]]]
In 1967, the Chamber of Commerce of Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing were joined, and in 1969 the ''Communauté urbaine de Lille'' (Lille urban community) was created, linking 87 ''[[communes of France|communes]]'' with Lille.

Throughout the 1960s and the 1970s, the region was faced with some problems after the decline of the coal, mining and textile industries. From the early 1980s, the city began to turn itself more towards the [[tertiary sector of economic activity|service sector]].

Pierre Mauroy served as Mayor of Lille for 28 years from 1973 to 2001. Mauroy was Prime Minister for part of the term of Francois Mitterrand.

In 1983, the [[Véhicule Automatique Léger|VAL]], the world's first automated [[rapid transit]] underground network, opened. In 1993, a high-speed [[TGV]] train line was opened connecting Paris with Lille in one hour. This, with the opening of the [[Channel Tunnel]] in 1994 and the arrival of the [[Eurostar]] train put Lille at the centre of a triangle connecting Paris, London and Brussels.

Work on Euralille, an urban remodelling project, began in 1991. The Euralille Centre was opened in 1994, and the remodeled district is now full of parks and modern buildings containing offices, shops and apartments. In 1994 the "Grand Palais" was also opened for the general public, which is free for the public to enter on the first Sunday of every month.