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Titre Effets de réseau et déséquilibres territoriaux dans la structure de l'offre ferroviaire à Paris
Auteur Nikolas Stathopoulos
Mir@bel Revue Flux
Numéro no 18, octobre-décembre 1994
Page 17-32
Résumé anglais "Center-Periphery," "East- West," and "Right Bank-Left Bank" are three well-established ideas concerning Paris (in fact, the entire Ile-de-France) and the so-called Parisian territorial imbalance. They crop up all the time, whether it is a question of building new transportation infrastructures or the new "Very Big Library," and one might say that they form a kind of ideological "background" for city planners (of urban transportation, but also for elected officials and, to a certain extent, for Parisians as well). These ideas, which are not new, either in the history of the subway or in that of the city itself, frequently appeal to a certain feeling of "social justice," of which the transportation system ought to be aware, or else of a certain vision of Paris, a territory which turns out to be heterogenous on several levels, and especially that of equality with respect to access to transportation (and, in consequence, to various urban functions: employment, leisure, etc.). This article questions the validity of these ideas, in the particular case of rail transportation in Paris intra-muros, and demonstrates, by means of a territorial analysis of the performance of the Parisian train system, that the perception of the above-mentioned imbalance changes both in nature and in intensity according to the territorial scale (arrondissement or neighborhood), which has been chosen as focal point.
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