La nouvelle privatisation des villes

Abstract

* Maître de conférences à Sciences Po (master stratégies territoriales et urbaines), consultante en économie urbaine (Ibicity). 1. Dans tout cet article, nous entendons les « villes » au sens large de territoires urbains, englobant la ville-centre mais aussi ses banlieues et ses espaces urbains (voir le terme anglais City-regions).

Illuminating the Path to Grand Pari(s): Architecture and Urban Transformation in an Era of Neoliberalization

“…Over the past 30 years, there has been a marked shift in France from nationally organized territorial management and policies of redistribution to management based on priority urban areas and policies fostering entrepreneurialism and inter‐urban competition (Brenner ). This has been accompanied by emphasis on project‐based growth (Pinson ), an increased importance of infrastructural and real estate sectors (Lorrain ), the privatization and financialization of city space (Baraud‐Serfaty ; Renard ) and new regimes of security and penality especially in suburban areas (Dikeç ; Wacquant ). Urban frontiers have been the primary sites where neoliberal governance has emerged and it is through the production of urban spaces that competition, efficiency, security and economic growth have taken hold as important values of collective life.…”