Métropoles (Nov 2009)
La création d’un réseau de villes : circulations, pouvoirs et territoires
Abstract
What impact a cities network can have on urban public policies ? This article purpose is to enlighten this question through the birth, and evolution, of the Club des Villes Cyclables (Biking Cities Club). In other words to open the black box of a cities network and analyse its genesis, its structure, its stakes, its activity, and eventually show its ability to transform the framework of public urban policies. The historical and institutional description of the network underlines the importance of circulations in each stage of development of the Club, at once within the network and in the urban areas. These circulations can be observed from the genesis of the network, when the Club was willing to constitute a national lobby of urban biking. Later on, circulations will turn onto the urban scale, through the advent of a technical and political urban authority. Now, it appears that the network and its circulations constitute, more and more, a stake for the territories administration and the urban public policy.
