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This title focuses on the evolution of the modeling process and on new research perspectives in theoretical and applied geography, as well as spatial planning. In the last 50 years, the achievements of spatial analysis models opened the way to a new understanding of the relationship between society and geographical space. In this book, these models are confronted by the real conditions of territorial prospect, regional dynamism, cultural policy, HMO, and spatial segregation. This confrontation takes into account the instability of social behavior and the permanence of partial determinist traje

This title focuses on the evolution of the modeling process and on new research perspectives in theoretical and applied geography, as well as spatial planning. In the last 50 years, the achievements of spatial analysis models opened the way to a new understanding of the relationship between society and geographical space. In this book, these models are confronted by the real conditions of territorial prospect, regional dynamism, cultural policy, HMO, and spatial segregation. This confrontation takes into account the instability of social behavior and the permanence of partial determinist traje.

Geography has long been in search of its abstract part. A renewed positivist classicism proposed one in the sixties, which has discovered the spatial constraints and relativized the weight of nature. That new paradigm has permitted the unfreezing of French geography. It meets its limits to-day : modélisation, academism, a craze for mapping and tele-detection unfounded on strong theorical bases. Geography must be interested in societies while refusing utilitarianism.