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Les enjeux de la question urbaine dans l’aménagement régional à l’île de La Réunion

The Urban Question in Regional Planning in Reunion Island
Pascale Metzger
p. 361-372

Abstracts

In Reunion Island the urban question has received little attention from academic research. Knowledge generated originates essentially from technical and operational institutions. Until the 1990s, the urban question was analysed essentially from the point of view of territorial management and technical problems caused by demographic growth, housing needs and employment during the rapid modernisation of the island since 1946. The regional plan of territorial management (schéma d’aménagement régional) of 1995 underestimates the urban question because the strategy of development is based on the rural activities, especially sugar cane production. Urban development is viewed as a threat to the natural and agricultural protected areas and is accepted in residual geographical sectors.Discourses and politics of local planners offer a negative picture of urban areas and neglect their importance in the economy and development of the island.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Pascale Metzger, “Les enjeux de la question urbaine dans l’aménagement régional à l’île de La Réunion”Espace populations sociétés, 2004/2 | 2004, 361-372.

Electronic reference

Pascale Metzger, “Les enjeux de la question urbaine dans l’aménagement régional à l’île de La Réunion”Espace populations sociétés [Online], 2004/2 | 2004, Online since 22 January 2009, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/eps/238; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/eps.238

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Pascale Metzger

IRD La Réunion – UR Environnement urbain, BP 172 – 97492 Sainte-Clotilde, La Réunion, Pascale.Metzger@la-reunion.ird.fr

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