| Titre | Pour en finir avec la banlieue. / Ending the use of the term "suburb". | |
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| Auteur | Annie Fourcaut | |
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Revue | Géocarrefour |
| Numéro | volume 75, no -2, 2000 Questions de banlieues | |
| Page | 101-105 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The different meanings attached to the word "suburb" (when used in French) lead to confusion. The term was first used in a legal and then administrative sense, but it represents primarily a field of study for the social sciences. The media show considerable interest in this area, but the producers of relate images show little understanding of the processes which lie behind their existence. The problem districts of the suburbs have also become the implicit focus of government urban policy, arising out of a concern which has long existed to provide social housing. The notion of suburb has a peculiar sense in France, developed in relation to a capital city which has a symbolic importance unknown elsewhere, and integrated into national policy-making from the 1970s. It has become outdated to reflect in terms of a centre and a periphery, taking no account of other spatial configurations and to view suburbs as organisms which inevitably develop disorders requiring remedial action. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/geoca_1627-4873_2000_num_75_2_2518 |
