La transition à Saint-Denis.Discours et réalités dans une banlieue du Grand Paris en mutation

Abstract

With more than 110,000 inhabitants, Saint-Denis is the third most populated municipality of Ile-de-France and is now facing urban transformation. It’s at the heart of Greater Paris projects : the high-priority urban redevelopment area NPNRU (Nouveau programme national de renouvellement urbain), 2024 Olympic games sites, Grand Paris Express metro station and call for projects “Let’s invent the metropolis”. This unprecedent renewal is concomitant with discourses of ecological transition and “environmental excellency”. Those projects are contested by residents’ groups, who are waiting for substantial transformations of their environment, better living conditions and some form of environmental justice.

Keywords

• Greater Paris
• Large-scale urban projects
• Metropolization
• Ecological transition