L'attractivité et sa mesure dans les territoires périphériques

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L'attractivité et sa mesure dans les territoires périphériques

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Faced with austerity policies, which have emerged since the 1980s as the dominant economic policy, local public actors are called upon to rationalize expenditure, open up to market logic, and work in partnership with the private sector in both territorial development and other domains (health, research, etc.). The private real estate economic actor, commonly known as "the developer," thus moves up the urban production chain. Moving from building scale to neighborhood scale, they take on a strategic position in both the material and symbolic construction of the city. This thesis proposes to examine urban transformation from the "developer's" perspective, as their role and position remain opaque in urban studies. Furthermore, using an anthropological approach appears to be an opportunity to grasp the logic and challenges of city-making and their spatial effects (standardization, privatization, densification, scale disruption, etc.).

Through a two-year ethnography with "the developer," the thesis aims to follow and understand "from the inside" the development of an urban project in a French metropolis to highlight the articulation between stakes, stakeholder dynamics, and imagination(s) from which the spatial project emerges. On one hand, this thesis responds to the need to understand a major figure in urban transformation, whose study cannot ignore underlying economic and financial logics. On the other hand, it contributes to an anthropological reflection on contemporary "city-making." Beyond revealing the spatial dimension of the project, it allows for the restitution of dynamics and logics governing urban production between "quantophrenia," risk transfer, and confinement within the dogmatic framework of neoclassical economics. It thus questions the notion of value by highlighting the limitation of its definition to strictly economic and financial fields.

Following a journey through the interstices of the project process, composed of circuits and short-circuits, the thesis finally proposes the hypothesis that the "fall of grand narratives" stems from a shift in the "founding myth," giving an ideological character to a managerial phenomenon: attractiveness. Opened by a prologue tracing a portrait of the private operator based on their own narratives about their practice and role in city transformation, the thesis is built around a diachronic ethnographic narrative that reconstructs the observed project process between narrative writing and thick description. Articulated in three parts (On the Commission, On the Response, and On the Project), this thesis takes the reader into the daily workings of the private operator at work, with and/or facing the public actor, thus deconstructing a dichotomous vision of these two universes.

L'idéologie de l'attractivité : saisir la fabrique urbaine par l'ethnographie du "promoteur"

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étude ethnographique détaillée du développement urbain dans une métropole française, en se concentrant sur le rôle du "promoteur" (développeur) et l'influence de l' "idéologie de l'attractivité". La recherche utilise une ethnographie de deux ans pour comprendre le fonctionnement interne des projets urbains "de l'intérieur"

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