URBAN RENEWAL PROJECTS IN LA PLAINE SAINT-DENIS, PARIS: GENTRIFICATION, BEYOND THE RHETORIC OF MIXITÉ SOCIALE

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  • Lívia Maschio Fioravanti Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/1984-5537geo.v11i1.12826

Keywords:

Urban renewal projects, Socio-spatial segregation, Gentrification, Mixité

Abstract

We examine the ways through which the urban renewal projects in the region of La Plaine Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of the metropolitan region of Paris, relate to the current global political and economic strategies of intervention in urban space and can enhance socio-spatial segregation in a place-based approach. The strategies base projects with very similar logics in other world cities and legitimize themselves through rhetoric as mixité sociale, which, in turn, try to hide the consequent processes of gentrification. Based on academic studies, fieldworks and observation of neighbourhood associations meetings and other events organized by government, we clarify the specific aspects of the development and implementation of urban renewal projects in La Plaine Saint-Denis, demonstrating that major intervention projects in space are far from mitigating socio-spatial inequalities.

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Author Biography

Lívia Maschio Fioravanti, Universidade de São Paulo

Mestre em Geografia Humana pela Universidade de São Paulo, Professora de Geografia no Instituto Federal de Mato Grosso – campus Primavera do Leste.

Published

2015-07-10

How to Cite

Fioravanti, L. M. (2015). URBAN RENEWAL PROJECTS IN LA PLAINE SAINT-DENIS, PARIS: GENTRIFICATION, BEYOND THE RHETORIC OF MIXITÉ SOCIALE. GeoTextos, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.9771/1984-5537geo.v11i1.12826

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