Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence
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 arti...
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| author | Nathalie Bertrand Dominik Cremer-Schulte Mathieu Perrin |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3ee44d6e3c3c4b12a3b95f99e43dc9202025-01-10T15:55:21ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-74262016-03-01103310.4000/rga.3126Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of CoherenceNathalie BertrandDominik Cremer-SchulteMathieu PerrinTerritorial 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.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/3126strategic planning; urban governance; territorial coherence; spatial equality; Grenoble; Greater Geneva |
| spellingShingle | Nathalie Bertrand Dominik Cremer-Schulte Mathieu Perrin Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence Revue de Géographie Alpine strategic planning; urban governance; territorial coherence; spatial equality; Grenoble; Greater Geneva |
| title | Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence |
| title_full | Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence |
| title_fullStr | Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence |
| title_short | Strategic Spatial Planning and Territorial Asymmetries. Grenoble and Greater Geneva: Two Alpine City Regions Put to the Challenge of Coherence |
| title_sort | strategic spatial planning and territorial asymmetries grenoble and greater geneva two alpine city regions put to the challenge of coherence |
| topic | strategic planning; urban governance; territorial coherence; spatial equality; Grenoble; Greater Geneva |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/3126 |
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