De la gestion des espaces au projet de territoire: Les enjeux politiques d'un changement de paradigme juridique

Abstract

Changes in planning law in the past three decades have deeply reorganized legal instruments in land management such as land use plans: increasingly diverse policy matters including housing, social cohesion, environmental care, or support of economic activity have had to be taken into account by local governments. These changes have had a great impact on the nature of political responsibility at the local level regarding land management as a territorial project. The research deals with legal change in land management through two observation material: the elaboration process of land use plans as a clustering of different institutional actors on the one hand; and the analysis of appeal procedures to administrative courts when local plans are disputed on the other hand.