The Development of Metropolitan Area in France, between Intermunicipal Reform and an Impeded Regionalisation

Jérôme Dubois (1)

1 LIEU - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire En Urbanisme

This article studies the recentacceleration of the French politics of association of local authorities by the creation of a new level of cooperation, the metropolis. Intended to assure a bettercompetitiveness of the French urban areas, bigmetropolises are the fruit of politicalagreementsnegotiatedbetween the municipalities and the State. Metropolises assure a distribution of the competencies by convention between the variouslevels of territorial powers.

Mots clés: Metropolises; Inter-communality; Urban powers; Territorial policies

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Droit; Science politique; Sociologie; Géographie; Etudes de l'environnement; Environnement et Société; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Jérôme Dubois. The Development of Metropolitan Area in France, between Intermunicipal Reform and an Impeded Regionalisation. Institut Universitaire de Varenne. Metropolisation, Regionalisation and Rural Intermunicipal Cooperation. What impact on Local, Regional and National Governments in Europe ?, , pp.331-348, 2019. ⟨hal-02482664⟩