Regional Planning Policy and the Location of Employment in the Ile-De-France

Does Policy Matter

Bibliographic Data

ID6404015
AuthorsRichard Shearmur (0000-0002-2554-6654, INRS-Urbanisation, Montréal), Christel Alvergne (University of Bordeaux III)
Year2003
Volume39
Issue1
Pages3-31
Publication date2003-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087403253557
OpenAlexW1970826468
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited19

Ongoing debate in North America concerns the effectiveness and efficiency of planning policy at the metropolitan level. Current quantitative research on the deployment of employment across metropolitan areas tends to assume that it is governed by market forces (as expressed through a variety of location factors). However,there are also calls for a form of metropolitan regionalism, for a consistent metropolitan policy framework to guide development and avoid sprawl. In the context of these methodological,interpretative,and policy debates,the authors examine whether the deployment of jobs across the Paris region,which has had a clear and consistent regional planning framework over the past 30 years,has been influenced by this policy. They conclude that over the 1978 to 1994 period,the suburbanization of jobs has been effectively channeled by the policy framework put in place in 1965. Hence, policy matters

Context (archaeology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Regional Policy · Regional science · Regionalism (politics · Software deployment · Suburbanization · Urban planning · Urban sprawl · Variety (cybernetics · French Urban and Social Studies · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urbanization and City Planning

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