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1 January 2018

Territory as a way to move on from the aporia of soft/hard space

Authors: Frédéric Santamaria [email protected] and Bernard Elissalde [email protected]Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Town Planning Review
Volume 89, Number 1
https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2018.3
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The term ‘territory’ is today widely used. The academic literature on spatial planning often presents the notion of territory via definitions that restrict it to legal spaces unsuited to the need to adjust spatial planning and development action to the real modes of functioning of spaces in the context of globalisation. As a result, certain authors chose a different approach to space, by way of the notion of soft/hard spaces. This paper sets out to propose an alternative viewpoint to this dichotomy by returning to an academic issue, which aimed to define the notion of territory in geography.

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Town Planning Review
Volume 89 • Number 1 • January 2018
Pages: 43 - 60

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Published online: 1 January 2018
Published in print: January 2018

Keywords

  1. territory
  2. soft space
  3. spatial planning
  4. constructivism
  5. systemic approach

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Frédéric Santamaria [email protected]
Frédéric Santamaria is Assistant Director of UMS-RIATE and Senior Lecturer at the Université Paris Diderot, UFR géographie, Histoire sciences de la société, Case 7001, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 5 rue Thomas Mann, Paris 75205, France; Bernard Elissalde is Full Professor at the University of Rouen, 7 rue Thomas Becket, Mont-Saint-Aignan cedex 76820, France; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
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Bernard Elissalde [email protected]
Frédéric Santamaria is Assistant Director of UMS-RIATE and Senior Lecturer at the Université Paris Diderot, UFR géographie, Histoire sciences de la société, Case 7001, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 5 rue Thomas Mann, Paris 75205, France; Bernard Elissalde is Full Professor at the University of Rouen, 7 rue Thomas Becket, Mont-Saint-Aignan cedex 76820, France; e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
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