The Polycentric City Region That Never Was.

The Polycentric City Region That Never Was.

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Paris metropolitan region

polycentricity

spatial planning

competing scales

This paper highlights how, in the Paris metropolitan region's case, two polycentric spatial planning policies at national and regional levels incidentally prevented the development of a polycentric Mega-City-Region. The national policy aiming to reduce economic imbalances in the French territory has failed to promote a coherent Bassin Parisien system. At the same time, polycentric planning within the Paris-Ile-de-France region restricted the economic and urban growth to the adjacent new towns. This resulted in the reinforcement of the Paris agglomeration, thus limiting further integration of surrounding FURs in a polycentric Mega-City-Region that never existed.

Halbert, Ludovic

Built Environment

ISSN:0263-7960

2006

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00125909

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/12/59/09/PDF/Halbert_2006_Built_Environment_Paris.pdf