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Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Territorial coherence is today a guiding principle of spatial planning, especially at the city-region scale. The increasing number of spatial planning initiatives on such extended perimeters comes with the hope of a renewed relationship between cities, outskirts and rural areas. The aim of this article is to show that the governance processes at work in strategic spatial planning projects tend to reveal, or even to maintain, disparities between urban and peripheral areas, especially in mountain regions. Such areas’ ability to influence spatial projects proves to be uneven since they have different resources (financial, social, human and institutional). Based on spatial planning documents and interviews, the research reported in this article analyses the planning initiatives in two alpine city regions: Greater Geneva and Grenoble.

Source: Revue de géographie alpine

DOI: 10.4000/rga.3126

Authors: Nathalie Bertrand, Dominik Cremer-Schulte, Mathieu Perrin

Institution: Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture

Language: English

Topic: Local Governance and Planning

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2301767101

FWCI: 5.228

Cites: 31

Cited by: 8

Related to: 10