Le quartier de l’Arsenal, un « village dans la ville » entre patrimonialisation et normalisation

Abstract

The working-class housing of Arsenal is located in the Loire department (France) between two towns: Roanne and Mably. However, the two municipalities don’t have the same stance regarding the social and spatial processes that the city is subjected to nowadays. Using this case study, this article’s goal is to show how municipalities can seize the concept of patrimonialization in order to make the area more attractive using a "territorial marketing" approach. It studies the attempts to create a "patrimonial drive" that a municipality may encourage, the limits of the notion of "resident participation" in the development of a patrimonialization process of theses "urban isolates". Finally, this document reflects on the future of theses urban forms in French medium-sized towns.

Keywords

• patrimonialization
• working-class housing
• Rhône-Alpes
• normalization
• working-class history