Christophe DemazièreUniversity of Tours | UFR · UMR CNRS 7324 Centre Interdisciplinaire Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés (CITERES)
Christophe Demazière
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The evolution of city regions and metropolises in both countries illustrates the theoretical debates on this particular geographical object. Political legitimacy, significant autonomy and a ‘relevant’ territorial area should form the basis of these regions. But there is a long way to go from this theoretical vision to practice. In Germany, a slow a...
In both countries, France and Germany, there is great pressure to change and adapt towards new forms of urbanity and to conceive new strategic approaches with limited public finance and a need for economic efficiency. Not all types of urban areas are equally affected by these issues. The book focuses on a number of important topical themes which ar...
The evolution of city regions and metropolises in both countries illustrates the
theoretical debates on this particular geographical object. Political legitimacy,
significant autonomy and a ‘relevant’ territorial area should form the basis of these
regions. But there is a long way to go from this theoretical vision to practice. In
Germany, a slow a...
The METRO project focuses on European metropolitan areas, their governance and the role they play in the European Union (EU) cohesion policy framework.
This Annex to the final Report presents and discusses in a comparative manner the evidence collected in the nine case studies that have been explored in the framework of the ESPON Targeted Analysis METRO – The role and future perspectives of cohesion policy in the planning of Metropolitan Areas and Cities.
More in detail, the document synthesises a...
The scope of the ESPON METRO project is rather broad, as its research positions at the intersection of a number of fields, ranging from territorial governance and spatial planning, to public administration and policy analysis and European integration studies, up to regional development studies.
Over the past decade, several European countries have undergone reforms that modified the distribution of allocated powers and/or the geographical area of intervention of local authorities. This paper focuses on the institution of metropolitan governments. National legislative and executive powers usually claim that they want to provide densely urb...
The global number of coworking spaces (CSs) keeps increasing rapidly. This leads to question their role in the territorial economy, in the evolution of urban fabrics and for public policies. In France, this dynamic spans on the whole range of the urban system, from metropolitan areas to villages. The Loire Valley region is a particularly interestin...
Cette recherche a pour but de diagnostiquer, d’interpréter et de requalifier certaines typologies de ces paysages du Sud Oriental Tunisien. En l’occurrence, ce travail s’interroge sur les principales questions suivantes :
- Quelles sont les caractéristiques et les potentialités paysagères, culturelles et patrimoniales de l’héritage troglodytique en...
Cette étude a concerné les potentialités paysagères, architecturales et culturelles des paysages troglodytiques implantés au sud-est tunisien sur un périmètre de plus de 55000 km². L’établissement d’un inventaire paysager a aboutit à caractériser ces paysages et leurs typologies. Une lecture paysagère multi-échelles a permis de comprendre l’intelli...
Résumé
Les aéroports à faible trafic (moins de 200 000 passagers annuels) constituent un dilemme pour les collectivités territoriales françaises. Faut-il stimuler leur développement, sous quelles formes et avec quels bénéfices pour le territoire ? Sur la base du rapport récent commandité par le Conseil supérieur de l’aviation civile, les auteurs d...
Le label European Green Capital (EGC) est une initiative de la Commission européenne visant à promouvoir les efforts des villes pour améliorer l'environnement et relever les défis environnementaux dans la société urbaine. Certains auteurs soutiennent qu'une telle récompense est plus utilisée pour promouvoir la croissance économique que pour vraimen...
This article develops a comparative analysis of the recent processes of creation of metropolitan governments for large city regions in two European countries: England and France. We consider the evolutions which led to these reforms which aim at the reorganisation of the sub-national territories of public action. Although coinciding in time, the ne...
Coworking spaces, from spatial dispersion to urban integration into French non-metropolitan area. The geography of economic activities is evolving rapidly and the emergence of alternative workplaces - the so-called third-places - changes its traditional models. This paper takes a geographical and urban planning outlook at the dynamics of coworking...
This chapter examines the multiple agencies of institutions that drive processes of metropolitan change. The institutional context of metropolitan planning and development largely determines the opportunities and constraints that condition and sets the rules for metropolitan actors to partake in such processes. While intrinsically linked to the gen...
Résumé-Cette étude s'intéresse à l'analyse des possibilités de développement territorial des trois villages berbères, troglodytiques de Chenini, de Douiret et de Guermessa, au sud de la Tunisie. Le premier temps de recherche a abordé la reconnaissance des paysages des trois villages à travers l'étude de l'image de chacun des villages ainsi qu'une d...
Les paysages troglodytiques au sud tunisien montrent des spécificités dans le temps, dans l’espace et dans la manière à travers laquelle les autochtones ont valorisé leur espace de vie. Ces paysages révèlent un savoir-faire pour maîtriser et habiter la roche. Une étude diagnostic pluridisciplinaire permet la reconnaissance physique, écologique et c...
Planning to meet the Proximities
Spatial planning and territorial co-operation of intercommunal type constitute a set of key practices of today's territorial action, made of relations of various actors and constrained, more or less, to work together on a given geographical perimeter and medium-term strategic development objectives. The reading grid...
– Cette étude s’intéresse à l’analyse des possibilités d’épanouissement territorial des trois villages berbères, troglodytiques de Chenini, de Douiret et de Guermessa, au sud de la Tunisie. Le premier temps de recherche a abordé la reconnaissance des paysages des trois villages à travers l’étude de l’image de chacun des villages ainsi qu’une descri...
Strategic spatial planning has been redefined by urban theorists as a collective effort to reimagine a metropolis, giving way to the coordination of public policies and private actors' strategies. But strategic spatial planning does not take place in an institutional void. This paper examines how reforms of the planning system in order to make plan...
Strategic spatial planning has been redefined by urban theorists as a collective effort to reimagine a metropolis, giving way to the coordination of public policies and private actors’ strategies. But strategic spatial planning does not take place in an institutional void. This paper examines how reforms of the planning system in order to make plan...
Cette étude constitue une analyse multi-échelle de la région du sud-est de la Tunisie. La ville berbère de l’ancienne Matmata se caractérise par des particularités paysagères, de par son relief rude et son climat aride. Le premier temps de recherche a abordé la reconnaissance des principales composantes physiques du site ainsi que de son évolution....
This paper is part of the research on functional roles of European towns conducted by a group of researchers gathered around the ESPON project 'TOWN'. Building on the systematic analysis of the socioeconomic dynamics of 31 European small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs), we identified three profiles of their local economies. The first profile is defi...
La planification territoriale stratégique fait un retour remarqué dans de nombreux pays. Comment expliquer ce retour malgré toutes les critiques formulées à l'encontre d'une planification toujours écartelée entre deux tensions, celle d'être une mise en récit des différents « coups partis » ou celle de présenter un avenir radieux déconnecté des réal...
L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser les pratiques de planification spatiale dans les grandes agglomérations françaises – et plus précisément les Schémas de Cohérence Territoriale (SCoT) – par rapport au courant communicationnel de la théorie de la planification stratégique spatialisée. Par l’accent mis sur l’élaboration d’un projet et l’ouvert...
This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities and on metropolitan regions, there has been re...
Reforms of spatial planning and sustainable management of large cities
The case of England and France
For two decades, sustainable development has become the bottom line of spatial public policies. Its introduction in spatial planning has brought new goals, new ways of developing and promoted new spatial scales. This article comparatively traces t...
Editorial:
In 2008 when Anna Geppert was editing the first issue of Planning Education, it was meant to be more an internal report providing the AESOP community with an impression of our debates, given the importance of the issues at stake. After more than 2,000 downloads, she realised that the AESOP community needed a platform for sharing ideas di...
The Stakes of Spatial Planning in England and France: a Cross-Comparison
In the last two decades, sustainable development became a major norm for public action, both in England and France. This paper compares the main changes in the spatial planning process in these two countries which differ by their degree of (de)centralization. It then analyzes...
Dans cet article, on considère que la minimisation des impacts environnementaux de la croissance localisée d'activités économiques engage les systèmes d'action publique. Édictés au niveau national (avec une influence croissante de l'Union européenne en matière environnementale), les systèmes de planification spatiale forment un canevas de règles du...
This article focuses on how spatial strategic planning attempts in the French context, to regulate land consumption due to business sites. It is based on the analysis of planning documents, interviews and map analysis on the territory of four French urban areas: Aix-Marseille, Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Rennes and Tours. Section 1 recalls the legislator...
Cet article porte sur la façon dont la planification stratégique spatialisée tente, dans le contexte français, de réguler les consommations foncières dues aux projets à vocation économique. Il est basé sur l’analyse de documents de planification, d’entretiens et une analyse cartographique sur le territoire de quatre régions urbaines françaises : Ma...
Cette contribution rend compte de premiers résultats d’une recherche commanditée par le Plan Urbain Construction Architecture, organe du Ministère de l’Ecologie, dans le cadre de son programme « Localisation des activités économiques et développement durable des territoires » (2010-2012). Cette recherche s’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux évolutio...
Based on the analysis of 13 housing operations in the Loire Valley, on the study of local plans and on interviews with actors (politicians, technicians, planners and developers), this paper seeks to explain the relationship between housing projects and the planning orientations which are supposed to regulate them. It shows that the implementation o...
The aim of the paper is observe the growing role of culture within the local socio-economic development, with a special look in small and medium-sized towns in Europe. The first part of the paper presents evolution of instrumental and intrinsic approaches to the conceptualization of culture-relating notions. Both approaches are complementary and ne...
The socio-economy of small and medium-sized towns: theoretical issues and consequences for regional planning policies
This article is an introduction to a special issue of the journal, devoted to the progress of research in the analysis of economic dynamics of small and medium-sized towns (SMST). As the notion of SMST comes from regional planning p...
Ce dossier a pour origine le colloque " Villes petites et moyennes, un regard renouvelé ", organisé à Tours fin 2010, par le laboratoire Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés (UMR 6173 de l'université François-Rabelais de Tours et du CNRS), en collaboration avec les universités d'Orléans, Poitiers et La Rochelle. Durant deux jours, 70 commu...
En France, les zones d’activités sont un instrument de développement économique et d’aménagement du territoire privilégié par les communes et leurs groupements. L’objectif de cet article est de faire la lumière sur les tensions entre développement économique et gestion de l’espace sous-tendues par l’utilisation de cet instrument. L’article s’intére...
This paper analyses how local authorities contribute to economic development in medium-sized French conurbations (between 100 and 300,000 inhabitants). Industial zones and business property have a greater impact when local authorities 'views converge. A recent form of co-peration is studied, the "communauté d'agglomération".
Atelier Régional Ville « Développement économique, emploi et politique de la ville »
http://www.crpv-paca.org
This paper analyses how local authorities contribute to economic development in medium-sized French conurbations (between 100 and 300,000 inhabitants). Industial zones and business property have a greater impact when local authorities 'views converge. A recent form of co-peration is studied, the "communauté d'agglomération" .
Cet article analyse, dans les agglomérations françaises de taille moyenne (inférieure à 400 000 habitants environ), les interventions des collectivités locales pour favoriser le développement de centres d�appels. Parmi les outils employés, la production d�immobilier de bureaux "en blanc", constitue un pari presque obligé pour les collectivités loca...
A Lisbonne comme à Istanbul les opérations d’urbanisme de prestige réalisées depuis une décennie révèlent les profondeurs des antagonismes sociaux dans la ville. Immeubles de standing et barres délabrées se répartissent de part et d’autre du nouveau Parc des Nations de Lisbonne. La rénovation touristique de la Muraille d’Istanbul à grand renfort de...
Montréal, Université de Montréal, Institut d'Urbanisme, 15-18 septembre 2002.
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, on assiste à la multiplication des interventions des collectivités locales françaises en direction du monde économique. Pour que ces actions participent au développement authentique d’un territoire, il conviendrait de mettre en œuvre une évaluation multidimensionnelle et de long terme de ces actions (section 1). Cet a...
Changes in the nature of planning and urban development have been revealed in a series of large-scale urban redevelopment projects, first in the US, then in northern Europe, and in the last 10 years on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. In the cases of Barcelona, Genoa, Naples or Marseilles, run-down urban sites have been redeveloped to allo...
Malesherbes, 19 février 2002
Maison des sciences de l'Homme « Villes et Territoires »
ENST Bretagnes, Brest, 21-22 novembre 2002.
Saint-Paul-en-Jarez, 17 janvier 2002
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i) sharing the scientific outcomes on new working spaces (definitions, typologies and geographical distributions); ii) comparing the best practices and direct and indirect impacts with a particular focus on the periphery; iii) sharing the policy tools across the countries. Learn more about the project and how to be part of it in www.new-working-spaces.eu
Despite their importance in the development of the European territory, Metropolitan Areas and Cities are not the primary actors in the design of programmes and strategies to implement Cohesion Policy. The experience with the 2007-2013 programming period, showed that cities and urban areas were involved at the project level as beneficiaries. In the 2014-2020 programming period, Cohesion Policy has enhanced their role through acknowledging the importance of cities and towns in specific investment priorities; nevertheless, the role of cities and their influence on the design of the programmes seems to be limited.
This ESPON targeted analysis shall support Metropolitan Areas and Cities in the effort to enhance their role in the decision making process related to the post-2020 programming period, also implementing the Pact of Amsterdam, establishing the Urban Agenda for the EU, and the renewed Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities.
ESPON METRO shall analyse and compare the role of Cohesion Policy in the process of planning and implementation of metropolitan policies, addressing experiences and practices as well as their territorial impact in the nine stakeholder territories. The research aims at providing evidence on how Metropolitan Areas can contribute to achieve specific objectives of Cohesion Policy through their policies, giving advice on how Cohesion Policy should take them into account.
Finally, ESPON METRO should take into consideration the new context of the COVID-19 pandemic and how the Cohesion Policy has responded and adapted to it. Being at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic, Metropolitan Areas have been called to mitigate as far as possible the impact of the virus on their territories. The need of better coordination among all levels of governance is even more evident that before.
Policy questions
1. What are the most efficient governance models of Cohesion policy funds in metropolitan areas?
2. What is the added value of applying Cohesion Policy to metropolitan policies?