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

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

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 P...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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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

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