Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan Areas
This paper proposes to show how territorial cognitive devices, in their capacity as patterns of representations and expressions of contemporary problems, are indicative of the rationales underpinning the formation of ‘Alpine metropolitan areas’ and shifting relations between city and highland. Drawi...
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| description | This paper proposes to show how territorial cognitive devices, in their capacity as patterns of representations and expressions of contemporary problems, are indicative of the rationales underpinning the formation of ‘Alpine metropolitan areas’ and shifting relations between city and highland. Drawing on analysis of a corpus of territorial diagnosis studies and interviews with policy-makers and technicians belonging to a metropolitan council in the French Alps, we show that cognitive devices primarily express the rationales of juxtaposition and interweaving of urban and mountainous issues. They also express the prospects and pitfalls for integrating mountain municipalities in a metropolitan area. Lastly they reveal the emergence of devices for adaptation and mediation to ease the formation of metropolitan areas in the Alps with reciprocal relationships between city and highland. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9e2d5e94a33c49ac978e38234963b7932025-01-10T15:53:42ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-74262018-08-01106210.4000/rga.4068Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan AreasEmmanuel RouxThis paper proposes to show how territorial cognitive devices, in their capacity as patterns of representations and expressions of contemporary problems, are indicative of the rationales underpinning the formation of ‘Alpine metropolitan areas’ and shifting relations between city and highland. Drawing on analysis of a corpus of territorial diagnosis studies and interviews with policy-makers and technicians belonging to a metropolitan council in the French Alps, we show that cognitive devices primarily express the rationales of juxtaposition and interweaving of urban and mountainous issues. They also express the prospects and pitfalls for integrating mountain municipalities in a metropolitan area. Lastly they reveal the emergence of devices for adaptation and mediation to ease the formation of metropolitan areas in the Alps with reciprocal relationships between city and highland.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/4068territorial planningcognitive devicesrelations between city and highlandAlpine metropolitan areaspublic action |
| spellingShingle | Emmanuel Roux Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan Areas Revue de Géographie Alpine territorial planning cognitive devices relations between city and highland Alpine metropolitan areas public action |
| title | Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan Areas |
| title_full | Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan Areas |
| title_fullStr | Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan Areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan Areas |
| title_short | Devices for Understanding Territory to Rethink Relations Between City and Highland in Alpine Metropolitan Areas |
| title_sort | devices for understanding territory to rethink relations between city and highland in alpine metropolitan areas |
| topic | territorial planning cognitive devices relations between city and highland Alpine metropolitan areas public action |
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