L’implantation des gares TGV en France : tensions interscalaires, jeux d’acteurs et recompositions spatiales

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L'implantation des gares TGV en France : tensions interscalaires, jeux d'acteurs et recompositions spatiales Location of high speed rail stations in France : inter-scalar tensions, players' strategies and spatial reorganization Valérie Facchinetti-Mannone et Jean-Jacques Bavoux L'implantation des gares TGV en France : tensions interscalaires, jeux d'acte...

A methodological approach to analyze the territorial appropriation of high-speed rail from interactions between actions and representations of local actors

“…In accordance with these reflections and in the continuity of studies devoted to the influence of the choices of station location on the territorial integration of HSR (Bertolini, 1998;Loukaitou-Sideris et al, 2012;Mohino et al, 2014), our own previous research on HSR stations (Facchinetti-Mannone and Bavoux, 2010;Facchinetti-Mannone, 2012 and2016) reveals that the process of territorialization of HSR has encountered a certain territorial inertia due as much to "the effects of place" as to the appropriation modes of the new transport supply by territorial actors. If, as Delaplace pointed out, "appropriation depends on factors such as station location and the strategy implemented by local stakeholders" (Delaplace, 2017), the degree of appropriation of the potentials of HSR has been a major factor in the involvement of local actors in the decision-making process leading to the choice of the location of HSR stations, and in the implementation of coherent and coordinated strategies improving the territorial integration of HSR.…”

Peripheral High-Speed Rail Stations in Spain

“…As we shall see, the territorial context is very important for understanding the role and function of each station and the main strategies that local stakeholders need to employ in each case [5,9,14].…”

“…In France, HSR stations located on the urban periphery have, in some cases, favoured new property developments and activities in their immediate surroundings, especially involving advanced tertiary sector activities [9,10]. In Spain, however, there has been little identifiable local economic development associated with many of these new stations.…”

“Give me a high-speed rail station, or nothing!” How private stakeholders consider investing in the high-speed rail station’s area in shrinking c

“…Most of the research works about the relationship between HSR stations and urban development have focused on public actors' strategies in major cities (Troin, 1997;Ollivro, 1999;Menerault, Barre (dir. ), 2001;Facchinetti-Mannone, Bavoux, 2010;Bellet et al, 2012;Delage, 2013) and more recently in smaller cities (Facchinetti-Manonne et al, 2013;Roudier, 2015). Most of those research works agree on the HSR station being a "spearhead of a long-term, public, sector-led spatial strategy with deliberate regional planning designed to magnify and spread economic and regeneration benefits" (Brown and al., 2013, p 115), especially in France.…”