‘Aménagement du territoire’ in France: State interventionism or regulation?

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‘Aménagement du territoire’ in France appears to have been closely connected with State economic and social policies designed to organise expansion and counter inequalities. Concerned specifically with spatial inequalities, ‘aménagement’ benefited, until 1973, from the economic prosperity which had endowed the State with a capacity for redistribution. Faced with a sectional and centralised administration, it involved a certain procedural practice facilitated by the strengthening of executive power during the Fifth Republic. As a form of state intervention, it has tended to influence the decisions of major actors in the regional domain, and can be seen as a process of regulation which, while attempting to resolve difficulties or contradictions, may equally serve to aggravate or conceal them.

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