THE URBAN GOVERNANCE IN QUESTION, THE CASE OF PLACES OF CULTIVEE NATURE. THE URBAN GOVERNANCE IN QUESTION, THE CASE OF PLACES OF A CULTIVEE NATURE: A reading of the rennaise situation. ; LA GOUVERNANCE URBAINE EN QUESTION, LE CAS DES LIEUX DE NATURE CULTIVEE. LA GOUVERNANCE URBAINE EN QUESTION, LE CAS DES LIEUX DE NATURE CULTIVEE.: Une lecture de la situation rennaise

Abstract

a powerful geo-economic phenomenon, metropolisation is also transforming the conditions and methods of governance at the various levels, particularly at local level: inter-urban competition for attracting people and activities, hybridisation of public-private modes of intervention, growing demands of an increasingly organised civil society. The nature of the countryside in the city is crossed by these changes in governance. The aim of the article is thus to show that the multifunctional nature of these places (ecological good, food resources, social interaction and individual attachment) makes them 'areas at stake' for those involved in urban planning. Indeed, the objectives of urban institutions and the expression of residential demands come into tension there, as they do not relate to the same views on living and practised spaces. On the basis of the example of the agglomeration of Rennes, in western France, it is possible to question the capacity of urban institutions to ensure local democracy based on residential participation and to truly integrate all forms of productive activities into the same metropolitan vision. ; International audience Metropolitan growth is a powerful geographical-economic phenomenon, that transforms both conditions and forms of governance at different scales, especially local scales: inter-urban competition for the attraction of people and activities, importance of public-private action, rise of the claims from organized civil society. Places of cultivated nature in the city are crossed by these mutations of governance. The article aims to show that the multifunctional character of these places of nature (ecological health, food resource, hub of social interactions and individual attachment) produces some "spaces issues" for those involved in urban planning. Indeed, objectives of urban institutions come into tension with the expression of the demands of inhabitants, because there are different views about the lived and practiced spaces. From the example of the city of Rennes, in ...