Des tours dans la campagne : politiques de densification et coalition anticroissance à Rennes

Abstract

Rennes 2020 municipal election highlights the difficulty of integrating neighborhood activists, who are engaged in forms of piecemeal resistance to local urban planning projects, into an antigrowth coalition. Several factors explain this difficulty: the internal tensions between the members of this coalition, whose goals are partially different; the reluctance of neighborhood activists to get involved in politics; the political alliance system and the voting results which constrain the antigrowth entrepreneurs to reach a compromise with the outgoing mayor, despite the disapproval of the neighborhood activists.

Keywords

• antigrowth coalition
• densification
• election
• housing
• metropolisation