| Summary: | This paper focuses on the adaptation of the “residential unit model” (a major tool for urban renovation operations) to a specific territorial problematic : the Mosson district in Montpellier. These urban renovation processes, implemented in this area for ten years, have had various results and show strong discrepancies between theory and practice. Our approach compares two successive and uneven phases of « résidentialisation ». We test the hypothesis stating that this kind of intervention on the urban form has an effect on the way occupants appropriate their living space, leading to more social diversity, a target so many times mentioned in political discourses. Therefore our main question is: how the concept of social mix and how “inhabitants’ involvement standards", promoted by the ANRU (the National Agency for Urban Renovation), are received by local actors and then integrated and locally spread, according to the specific process of “résidentialisation”?
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