Cybergeo (Jun 2017)

Des acteurs de poids sur le littoral : les petits propriétaires immobiliers. Application au littoral provençal et azuréen

  • Laure Casanova Enault

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/cybergeo.28394

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Given that the Mediterranean coastal urbanization has mainly resulted from housing construction, this paper gives an analysis of the weight of individual homeownership in the process, from the analysis of MAJIC documents. Once the complexity of the exploitation of this fiscal source is overcome, the source offers detailed information on the property. Thus, we show that property owners are mostly individuals, who only possess a single dwelling, which is generally an apartment and owner-occupied. Beyond this average profile, data show that individual property owners have heterogeneous characteristics depending on the location, this being also true in the coastal areas, where characteristics are supposedly homogeneous. The article emphasizes the stakes of privatization of space produced by small individual homeowners, to better inform planning issues and coastal areas management.

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