Société rouennaise d’études urbaines et Société d’études urbaines de la région du Havre, la création des premières agences d’urbanisme entre hasard et nécessité
Before the 1967 land control law, the “Basse Seine” saw the birth of the first two french town-planning agencies: the “Société rouennaise d’études urbaines” (SORETUR) on march 1963 and the “Société d’études urbaines de la région du Havre” (SERH) on december 1965. These two studies civic companies th...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Lille 1
2007-06-01
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| Series: | Territoire en Mouvement |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/tem/612 |
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| Summary: | Before the 1967 land control law, the “Basse Seine” saw the birth of the first two french town-planning agencies: the “Société rouennaise d’études urbaines” (SORETUR) on march 1963 and the “Société d’études urbaines de la région du Havre” (SERH) on december 1965. These two studies civic companies that were almost twins, were created under the protection of the “Société centrale pour l’équipement du territoire”, a subdivision of the “Caisse des dépôts et consignations”. The SORETUR and the SERH came into existence without real intent, of special local conjuncture, of opportunities grasped by ambitious and experienced technicians and public servants. If the idea to implant some decentralized survey structures to lay out, localy, master-plans of urban areas commanded attention in administration little by little, these unpublished creations owe still much to a very well-disposed regional context. The “Basse Seine” was indeed, since the end of the 50’s, a pilot region in reformation of administration as well as in planning. Beyond the first two town-planning agencies, were there created the first study body of metropolitan area and the first public land control authorized to collect tax. Thus, before being transformed into an association and respectively take, in 1974 and 1976, the names of “Agence d’urbanisme de la région du Havre” (AURH) and “Association rouennaise d’études d’urbanisme” (ARETUR), the SERH and the SORETUR trumped up during more or less ten years their experimental structure reputation, taking the characteristic features of all the following town-planning agencies : multidisciplinarity and youth of the staff, implication of their permanent officials in trade union moevment, associative or political activity and their financial weakness. |
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| ISSN: | 1950-5698 |