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