Émergence en France de l’agriurbain et modèle associatif francilien : une dynamique paysagère pour les espaces périurbains ?

• Main Author: Sophie Bonin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université Lille 1 2020-02-01
• Series: Territoire en Mouvement
• Subjects: urban agriculture; landscape; governance; périurban territory; Ile-de-France
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/tem/6186

Among the different meanings and words about urban agriculture, the word “agriurban” refers more specifically to processes of reterritorialisation of agriculture in the proximity of cities. This paper deals with the emergence of the term “agriurban”, in French-speaking literature, and with a study of the construction of this agriurban territoriality, based on six particularly emblematic Francilian cases, and which, moreover, bear the explicit designation of agriurban territory. The hypothesis of the role of the landscape in mobilisations is tested on the basis of surveys among witnesses or actors of these associative territorial constructions, and planning documents concerning them. The establishment of these original territorial governances between the agricultural world (farmers, owners or companies that value agricultural products) and the urban world (represented by its local elected representatives and by a citizen or associative mobilization) tells us that changes in the representations and modalities of public action are at work on peri-urban agricultural areas. Agriurban presents itself as a landscape “movement” which leads to a completely new view of peri-urban areas, in a movement which proceeds from a rehabilitation, a positive symbolic qualification (through the recognition of the environmental, social and food qualities of agricultural areas), but also the implementation of new agricultural and urbanistic practices, which modify or could significantly modify landscapes.