Cet article revient sur la place des emprises militaires au sein de la ville contemporaine. En partant du cas de la région lyonnaise, l’analyse revient sur les liens qui existent entre les terrains militaires et un certain nombre de projets et d’aménagements urbains élaborés au cours du XXe siècle. À travers différents exemples, notre propos sera particulièrement sensible à la façon dont les autorités locales et les urbanistes ont profité de ces exceptions foncières pour remodeler ou tenter de remodeler la cité. L’objectif est aussi d’identifier les différentes raisons qui ont justifié le retour de ces territoires dans le domaine civil, des raisons hygiénistes jusqu’aux exigences des équipements liées à l’accélération de l’urbanisation. This article reexamines the importance of military-owned land at the heart of the contemporary city. Taking the Lyon region as an example, the analysis returns to the links that existed between military-owned land and a certain number of urban and redevelopment projects elaborated during the twentieth-century. Taking various examples into consideration, this article focuses in particular on the ways that local authorities and urban specialists have taken advantage of these real estate privileges to remodel, or attempt to remodel, the city. This article also aims to identify the different reasons that legitimized a return from military-owned to civilian-owned land such as those ranging from public health to those concerning the demands made by installations linked to the acceleration of the urbanization process
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