Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de Montluçon
Urban decline has become a major issue for many small- and middle-sized cities faced with considerable processes of peripherisation in an era of neoliberal globalisation. The paper deals with the urban and political strategies established in the French city of Montluçon, distant from metropolitan ar...
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2019-07-01
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| description | Urban decline has become a major issue for many small- and middle-sized cities faced with considerable processes of peripherisation in an era of neoliberal globalisation. The paper deals with the urban and political strategies established in the French city of Montluçon, distant from metropolitan areas. The paper is based on research materials resulting from semi-directive interviews, focusing on the analysis of the materialisation of dominant urban narratives at local scale. The paper argues that far from accepting the reality, the actors concerned always tend to consider urban decline as an anomaly contrary to the hegemonic order of growth. The study shows that in attempting to become competitive, the city has engaged into a process of urban transformation aiming at highlighting an imaginary bound to its quality of life. Local policy uses the renewal of the urban space as a marketing strategy in order to project a new image of the city compliant with dominant narratives, which nevertheless failed to generate the expected growth. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e8c04a2e4d7e4f26ae3d39d68ce585c22025-08-20T03:18:05ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352019-07-01310.4000/belgeo.35087Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de MontluçonMikel Agirre-MaskarianoUrban decline has become a major issue for many small- and middle-sized cities faced with considerable processes of peripherisation in an era of neoliberal globalisation. The paper deals with the urban and political strategies established in the French city of Montluçon, distant from metropolitan areas. The paper is based on research materials resulting from semi-directive interviews, focusing on the analysis of the materialisation of dominant urban narratives at local scale. The paper argues that far from accepting the reality, the actors concerned always tend to consider urban decline as an anomaly contrary to the hegemonic order of growth. The study shows that in attempting to become competitive, the city has engaged into a process of urban transformation aiming at highlighting an imaginary bound to its quality of life. Local policy uses the renewal of the urban space as a marketing strategy in order to project a new image of the city compliant with dominant narratives, which nevertheless failed to generate the expected growth.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/35087Franceurban sprawlurban declineurban narrativesurban marketingMontluçon |
| spellingShingle | Mikel Agirre-Maskariano Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de Montluçon Belgeo France urban sprawl urban decline urban narratives urban marketing Montluçon |
| title | Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de Montluçon |
| title_full | Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de Montluçon |
| title_fullStr | Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de Montluçon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de Montluçon |
| title_short | Politiques urbaines pour la mise en récit d’une ville moyenne périphérisée en décroissance : L’exemple de Montluçon |
| title_sort | politiques urbaines pour la mise en recit d une ville moyenne peripherisee en decroissance l exemple de montlucon |
| topic | France urban sprawl urban decline urban narratives urban marketing Montluçon |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/35087 |
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