L’urbanisme comme nouveau corporatisme. Analyse des discours des associations professionnelles

• Main Author: Mathilde Girault
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2016-04-01
• Series: Cybergeo
• Subjects: urbanism; profession; trade; competence; modernity
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/27579

While ecological challenges are increasing and participation expectations are growing up, the professional "urbanists" associations are attempting to normalize practices, through their speeches and network strategies. Confronted with the emergence of new trades and the current evolution of others, the professional associations chose, about fifteen years ago, to focus their activities to the historical "urbanist" figure which revives a modernist understanding of city, urban phenomena and trade. In the name of practitioners’ protection in such a competitive market, professional associations thus managed to organize settings and forms of the action, as well as production of knowledge and their diffusion, thus drawing a new corporatism.