Projecting the Metropolis: Paris 2024 and the (re)scaling of metropolitan governance

    Par
    Jean Cavailhès
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    (), Volume 114, July 2021, 103189

     Présentation (FED) : Les auteurs examinent comment les Jeux Olympiques de Paris 2024 sont mis à profit pour faciliter la transformation métropolitaine de l’Île de France, à partir d'entretiens semi-structurés avec sept informateurs clés de la Métropole du Grand Paris et la Société du Grand Paris impliqués dans les mécanismes de gouvernance de la région Île-de-France et le développement des méga-événements urbains. Les tensions entre centre et périphérie et la compétition entre centres périphériques sont analysées. Les auteurs montrent que l'emplacement des sites pour les installations olympiques a des implications importantes pour le cadre institutionnel de la gouvernance métropolitaine.

    Abstract (authors) : Paris' successful bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics arises in the midst of a grand rethinking of the politics of regional and local development in the Île-de-France region. Paris 2024 also emerges at a time when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is struggling to find cities willing to host the Olympics and has introduced a series of reforms to help recruit and motivate potential bid cities to consider how an Olympic project might be integrated into existing patterns of urban development. This exploratory research examines the blending of the Grand Paris regional development project and the 2024 Olympic ambition. Incorporating results from semi-structured interviews with seven key informants who possess specialized knowledge and are involved with governance mechanisms of the Île-de-France region and urban megaevent development, we explore how the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are being leveraged to facilitate metropolitan transformation. In the highly fragmented institutional setting of the Île-de-France region, negotiating site locations for Olympic facilities and establishing legacy or heritage objectives for the Olympic Games has important implications for the development of an institutional framework for metropolitan governance.

    Lien : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275121000871