Descrição
We examine the ways through which the urban renewal projects in the region of La Plaine Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of the metropolitan region of Paris, relate to the current global political and economic strategies of intervention in urban space and can enhance socio-spatial segregation in a place-based approach. The strategies base projects with very similar logics in other world cities and legitimize themselves through rhetoric as mixité sociale, which, in turn, try to hide the consequent processes of gentrification. Based on academic studies, fieldworks and observation of neighbourhood associations meetings and other events organized by government, we clarify the specific aspects of the development and implementation of urban renewal projects in La Plaine Saint-Denis, demonstrating that major intervention projects in space are far from mitigating socio-spatial inequalities.||Analisamos de que modo os projetos de requalificação urbana na região de La Plaine Saint-Denis, no subúrbio norte da metrópole Paris, articulam-se às atuais estratégias políticas e econômicas globais de intervenção no espaço urbano e podem contribuir para intensificar a segregação socioespacial na escala do lugar. Essas estratégias contam com projetos com lógicas bem semelhantes em outras cidades mundiais e se legitimam por meio de discursos como os da mixité sociale, os quais, por sua vez, procuram ocultar os processos de gentrification que desencadeiam. A partir de levantamento bibliográfico, da realização de trabalhos de campo e da observação em reuniões de associações de moradores ou eventos organizados pelo poder público, procuramos elucidar as especificidades da elaboração e da execução dos projetos de requalificação urbana em La Plaine Saint-Denis, demonstrando que os grandes projetos de intervenção no espaço estão longe de amenizar as desigualdades socioespaciais.
Abstract
URBAN RENEWAL PROJECTS IN LA PLAINE SAINT-DENIS, PARIS:GENTRIFICATION, BEYOND THE RHETORIC OF MIXITÉ SOCIALE
We examine the ways through which the urban renewal projects in the region of La Plaine Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of the metropolitan region of Paris, relate to the current global political and economic strategies of intervention in urban space and can enhance socio-spatial segregation in a place-based approach. The strategies base projects with very similar logics in other world cities and legitimize themselves through rhetoric as mixité sociale, which, in turn, try to hide the consequent processes of gentrification. Based on academic studies, fieldworks and observation of neighbourhood associations meetings and other events organized by government, we clarify the specific aspects of the development and implementation of urban renewal projects in La Plaine Saint-Denis, demonstrating that major intervention projects in space are far from mitigating socio-spatial inequalities.
