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    The city and its region or the region and its city?

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    Wight, Ian
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    An explicitly critical perspective of the Conference theme is used to inform an exploration of the contemporary city-region planning challenge and to argue for an alternative operative philosophy to the current centre-periphery dichotomy framework that has made it natural to think about the city and its region, rather than the other way around. A paradigm shift is proposed, based on a new operative philosophy - the territory/function dialectic, whereby city-region planning is reframed as an exercise in mediating territorial autonomies and functional interdependencies. Making such a shift is expected to entail planners learning new roles such as eco-citistate "placemakers," "agent collaborateurs," "common market-eers," and "cosmopolitan convivants."
     
    L'auteur adopte une perspective explicitement critique du thème du congrès pour éclairer I'examen du défi urbanistique contemporain de la ville-région et pour appuyer une nouvelle philosophie fonctionnelle du cadre de la dichotomie centre-périphérie actuelle qui montre comment il est naturel d'envisager « la ville et sa région », plutôt que l'inverse. Il propose un changement de paradigme, fondé sur une nouvelle philosophie fonctionnelle - la dialectique territoire-fonction, où l'aménagement de la ville-région est réorganisé à titre d'exercice de médiation des autonomies territoriales et des interdépendances fonctionnelles. Ce changement obligera les urbanistes à apprendre de nouveaux rôles, notamment ceux de « concepteur éco-urbain », « d'agent collaborateur », « d'européiste » et de « convivant cosmopolite ».
     
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    DOI: 10.25316/IR-1534
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