Aux limites nord de la région urbaine grenobloise, les données nouvelles de l'aménagement

The strategies developed in the last 20 years in the planning of the Grenoble region have failed to control the process of peri-urban expansion. The urban area has continued to widen its zone of economic attraction with the result that the proposed relay area in the north of the region has been unable to assert itself However the double pheno- menon of domination and urban dilution has been curbed by the new era economic of crisis which has effectively limited the expansion of the residential area. Moreover, the rural communities are becoming organised and asserting themselves as small homogeneous territorial units each centred on a common kermal. Although the northern limits of the Grenoble region, as defined in the local town planning project in 1967, can still be justified, the determination to centralise, evident in the initial project, its no longer in keeping with the present tendency towards diversification. At a time when decentralisation is the operative concept, the new orientations in urban and peri-urban planning have to consider the necessity for the harmonisation and the coherence of the different strategies on the wider scale of the departement

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