Accessibilité et fabrique de la marge en France

Abstract

A lack of public transport offer is often considered as a factor of enclosure for a territory. However, it could be useful to overpass a relation accessibility-margin only based on an approach of an offer in infrastructure and services. Keeping oneself at distance from somewhere/else is also relevant of a choice made by actors. Legal evolutions in France have led to the consideration of the notion of accessibility not only as a matter of performance of an offer, but also as a social question. The notion of access is preeminent today to think about accessibility matters, even more in the field of public space design. Discourses about spatial categories are taking part to the process of marginalization. Marginality is not only a distance to the norm or a transgression of it; it is also an opportunity to adapt the norm to a specific context. Questioning the relation between accessibility and margin-making is questioning the intentional part in the side-tracking processes.

Keywords

• Landlocking
• Margins
• Accessibility
• Briançonnais
• Intentionality
• Super-periphericity