Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon

To attract the investors for whom they compete in the urban market, cities aim after making themselves desirable for national and global capital seeking locations to increase profitability. Thus, they work to improve their brand image. For this purpose, they value, on the one hand, their singulariti...

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Autores principales: Matthieu Adam, Georges-Henry Laffont
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ed27f0dfcecd4377b805c86f0e092f8d2021-12-02T10:57:11ZConjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon1958-921210.4000/confins.14614https://doaj.org/article/ed27f0dfcecd4377b805c86f0e092f8d2018-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/confins/14614https://doaj.org/toc/1958-9212To attract the investors for whom they compete in the urban market, cities aim after making themselves desirable for national and global capital seeking locations to increase profitability. Thus, they work to improve their brand image. For this purpose, they value, on the one hand, their singularities, i.e. the present or under development features that distinguish them, and, on the other hand, their conformity to the dominant values ​​of the discourses on the "cities that matter", which means, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, being sustainable, beautiful, festive, patrimonial, festive, innovative or socially mixed. Like Confluence in Lyon, major urban and architectural projects are nowadays precious tools for changing or renovating the image of a city by responding to this dual objective of conformity and singularity. By analyzing interviews with planners, developers, urbanists and architects from Confluence, we show that the image change and the images, which are based on the singularity/conformity pair, have consequences on the socio-spatial structure of both this new district and the surrounding area, Sainte-Blandine. Some inhabitants are legitimized because they correspond to the targeted population and they appropriate this image as much as they participate in formulating it. Unlike them, some are excluded from this image and their presence is finally undesirable in this area of ​​Lyon and, by extension, throughout its entire downtown.Matthieu AdamGeorges-Henry LaffontConfinsarticlemetropolizationarchitectural and urban projectsconformitysingularityimageGeography. Anthropology. RecreationGENFRPTConfins, Vol 36 (2018)
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topic metropolization
architectural and urban projects
conformity
singularity
image
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
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architectural and urban projects
conformity
singularity
image
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
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Matthieu Adam
Georges-Henry Laffont
Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon
description To attract the investors for whom they compete in the urban market, cities aim after making themselves desirable for national and global capital seeking locations to increase profitability. Thus, they work to improve their brand image. For this purpose, they value, on the one hand, their singularities, i.e. the present or under development features that distinguish them, and, on the other hand, their conformity to the dominant values ​​of the discourses on the "cities that matter", which means, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, being sustainable, beautiful, festive, patrimonial, festive, innovative or socially mixed. Like Confluence in Lyon, major urban and architectural projects are nowadays precious tools for changing or renovating the image of a city by responding to this dual objective of conformity and singularity. By analyzing interviews with planners, developers, urbanists and architects from Confluence, we show that the image change and the images, which are based on the singularity/conformity pair, have consequences on the socio-spatial structure of both this new district and the surrounding area, Sainte-Blandine. Some inhabitants are legitimized because they correspond to the targeted population and they appropriate this image as much as they participate in formulating it. Unlike them, some are excluded from this image and their presence is finally undesirable in this area of ​​Lyon and, by extension, throughout its entire downtown.
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author Matthieu Adam
Georges-Henry Laffont
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title Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon
title_short Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon
title_full Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon
title_fullStr Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon
title_full_unstemmed Conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. Confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de Lyon
title_sort conjuguer singularité et conformité pour se positionner sur le marché international de l'urbain. confluence et le renouvellement de l'image de lyon
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