Mathilde Marchand and François-Mathieu Poupeau contributed to the writing of the book:
Repenser l'aménagement du territoire
(Rethinking Land Use Planning) Edited by Stéphane Cordobès, Xavier Desjardins, and Martin Vanier
Berger Levrault, June 2020, 320 p.
Land use planning, regional attractiveness, competitiveness, then equality, and finally, territorial cohesion: for 20 years, the succession of terms has signaled the quest for a reformulation of land use planning thinking in France. None of them seem convincing. The world is rushing headlong into global change, French society is continuing to transform, and with it the territories in which it projects itself and is embedded. But can the same be said of its conception of what "regional planning," so dear to the country, should be? Is collective planning thinking lagging behind the social, economic, environmental, and cultural transformations it claims to regulate?
Prompted by the frequency and intensity of the debates, controversies, and crises that currently surround the issue of territory, some forty researchers and stakeholders gathered from September 7 to 13, 2019, at the Cerisy-la-Salle International Cultural Center to examine planning thinking and action.
Since the end of the Trente Glorieuses, spatial planning policy has clearly struggled to change the fundamentals that justified it. Is it still a question of "planning"? Does it still deal exclusively with "territory"? The time seems ripe to change the categories of analysis, the system of actors, the language and the horizon that bring them together. Planning thinking? A complete overhaul!
Far from the tired debates that pit territories against metropolises, local power against central power, or development against ecology, this collective work offers a series of avenues for rethinking planning in 21st-century France.
Contribution by Marie Dégremont and François-Mathieu Poupeau
: Do network operators have a planning mindset?
Contribution by Mathilde Marchand
: For a humble approach to urban planning in the Anthropocene era
Publisher's website
: https://boutique.berger-levrault.fr/ouvrages/collectivites-locales/au-fil-du-debat/repenser-l-amenagement-du-territoire.html