Is the French view of greenways avant-garde or déjà-vu?

Authors

Laure Cormier, PhD student UP Landscape, AGROCAMPUS OUEST, centre d’Angers, Institut national d’horticulture et de paysage, France
Monique Toublanc, Assistant professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Versailles, France
Jacques Baudry, Senior Scientist, lnstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, SAD-Paysage, Rennes, France

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.883

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

“Greenway” has become trendy in the French planners’ vocabulary. Indeed, this term has many meanings, related to both the environmental and social characteristics of a territory. It carries many positive cultural values. There are not one but several types of greenways in according to specific area (urban, peri-urban, and rural) with different objectives (recreation, nature conservation, human well being). Nowadays, the French term for greenways is “trame verte”. This expression is a planning concept dealing mostly with private land.

The objective of the paper is threefold. First, we shall look at the changes in the content of “greenways” in this international literature; second we shall examine what brought about the interest of “trame verte” in landscape planning and environmental management in France. Third, we shall propose a coarse assessment of the new French law on “trame verte”.

Recommended Citation

Cormier, Laure; Toublanc, Monique; and Baudry, Jacques (2010) "Is the French view of greenways avant-garde or déjà-vu?," Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 68.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.883
Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fabos/vol3/iss1/68