Planning the Impossible : : Urban Development and Spatial Strategies in the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Region / / Eirini Kasioumi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Kasioumi, Eirini,
• MitwirkendeR: Christiaanse, Kees,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

International airports have become an inherent part of many urban regions and key transport infrastructures for metropolitan economies. Yet they are also a source of tensions, often associated with the contrasting impacts of their operation. Taking the example of Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) in Paris, the author analyzes the factors influencing urban development and the related spatial strategies. Step by step, she traces the history of the airport, examines prominent conflicts and their management by planners, and derives broader lessons. Intended for town planners, policy makers, and urban designers, the book makes an important contribution to understanding the challenges and assessing the effectiveness of planning approaches for airport regions.

Internationale Flughäfen sind ein fester Bestandteil vieler urbanen Regionen und wichtige Verkehrsinfrastrukturen für die urbane Ökonomie. Sie sind aber auch eine Quelle von Spannungen, die oft mit den gegensätzlichen Auswirkungen ihres Betriebs verbunden sind. Die Autorin analysiert am Beispiel des Flughafens Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in Paris Entwicklungsfaktoren und damit verbundene räumliche Strategien. Schritt für Schritt stellt sie die Geschichte des Flughafens dar, untersucht Konflikte und deren Bewältigung durch die Planer und leitet daraus weiterführende Lehren ab. Das Buch wendet sich an Stadtplaner, Kommunen und Architekten und leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Verständnis der Herausforderungen und zur Beurteilung der Wirksamkeit von Planungsansätzen für Flughafenregionen.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 The airport region as planning challenge -- The spatial problematic of airport regions -- The case of Paris Charles de Gaulle -- Planning as investigative lens -- The long narrative as study approach -- CHAPTER 2 Airports and their spatial impacts -- Air transport: a contemporary and evolving reality -- Airports, global cities, and the “glocal” condition -- Airports and metropolitan space -- The economic importance of air transport -- The negative externalities of airport operation -- Asymmetries and controversies of airport impacts -- Planning approaches to airport regions -- CHAPTER 3 Planning in Paris -- Institutional and planning change in France -- The Paris metropolis: a portrait -- Threads in planning discourse and action -- CHAPTER 4 Aviation infrastructure in the “golden era” (1960 – 1974) -- Aviation and technocracy in the post-war period -- Establishing the necessity of a new airport -- Planning the deployment of Paris-Nord and the 1965 SDAURP -- First ramifications of projected externalities -- The airport as economic structuring facility -- Channeling development: the working group Paris-Nord -- Development versus planning -- The autonomous airport site -- CHAPTER 5 Disillusionment and adaptation (1974 – 1986) -- The airport region in the 1976 SDAURIF -- A green belt in Plaine de France? -- Regulatory responses to noise impact -- Organizing ground access to the airport -- Attempts to enhance accessibility -- Airport planning in a changing context -- An (un)planned urbanization and the Paris Nord complex -- CHAPTER 6 Development in times of liberalization (1986 – 1994) -- Emergence of a new competitive context -- The airport area as development hub -- Strategic sector, problematic territory? -- The awakening of ADP -- The awakening of local actors -- Airport impacts and a difficult dialogue -- The airport area enters planning discourses -- In search of a development strategy -- (Re)Designing CDG as competitive asset -- The airport city takes off -- A new wave of projects and a persistent stalemate -- Planning the CDG region: the plan of Mission Roissy -- Airports as centers of European caliber and the 1994 SDRIF -- CHAPTER 7 Fatigue and renewal (1994 – 2004) -- What future for the airport-area projects? -- The airport city struggles -- An intractable expansion -- Promoting growth, managing impact: a compromise -- Competitiveness by design -- An undecided territory -- The renewal of the discourse -- Denial and acceptance: third airport and CDG Express -- In search of spatial governance -- A roadmap for planning? -- CHAPTER 8 The airport region of the global city (2004 – 2013) -- A region and an airport in need of evolution -- Articulating planning strategies -- A new governmental impetus -- A development boom -- Grand Paris, Grand Roissy, and the “airport corridor” -- In search of spatial coherence -- Development as consensus? -- Converging ideals and the 2013 SDRIF -- The elusive governance of the airport region -- CHAPTER 9 Planning the impossible: evolving strategies and tactics -- The Paris CDG airport region over time: a synopsis of spatial change -- Evolving planning approaches in the context of Paris -- Diachronic airport-related wicked dilemmas -- The rational, the strategic, and the spatial -- Planning the impossible? -- Annexes -- 1. Common Options For Airport Regions (COFAR) -- 2. Current regulatory framework for aircraft noise in Paris -- About the author -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits and data sources