Contester au nom du paysage : les recours contre les documents d’urbanisme

Abstract

Decisions taken by local authorities regarding planning law are part of the most litigated ones in the field of space management. The study of administrative litigation is an way of investigating these disputes empirically. The cases often focus on agricultural and natural land plots considered has areas that could be potentially used for urbanization. French environment and planning law protect these kind of spaces, among other reasons, because of the quality of their landscape. Then what are empirically the legal arguments plaintiff may use in courts to contest zoning decisions “in the name of landscape” ? Based on a local study in the French region of Provence, the article deals with this issue of disputed planning policies.

Keywords

• landscape
• planning law
• planning
• litigation
• legal sociology