Planning the impossible : urban development and spatial strategies in the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport / Eirini Kasioumi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kasioumi, Eirini, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--France--Paris.

City planning.

Paris (France)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Paris (France).

Aéroport Charles de Gaulle.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

International airports have become an inherent part of many urban regions and key transport infrastructures for metropolitan economies. Yet they are also a source of tensions, often associated with the contrasting impacts of their operation. Taking the example of Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) in Paris, the author analyzes the factors influencing urban development and the related spatial strategies. Step by step, she traces the history of the airport, examines prominent conflicts and their management by planners, and derives broader lessons. Intended for town planners, policy makers, and urban designers, the book makes an important contribution to understanding the challenges and assessing the effectiveness of planning approaches for airport regions.

Internationale Flughäfen sind ein fester Bestandteil vieler urbanen Regionen und wichtige Verkehrsinfrastrukturen für die urbane Ökonomie. Sie sind aber auch eine Quelle von Spannungen, die oft mit den gegensätzlichen Auswirkungen ihres Betriebs verbunden sind. Die Autorin analysiert am Beispiel des Flughafens Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in Paris Entwicklungsfaktoren und damit verbundene räumliche Strategien. Schritt für Schritt stellt sie die Geschichte des Flughafens dar, untersucht Konflikte und deren Bewältigung durch die Planer und leitet daraus weiterführende Lehren ab. Das Buch wendet sich an Stadtplaner, Kommunen und Architekten und leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Verständnis der Herausforderungen und zur Beurteilung der Wirksamkeit von Planungsansätzen für Flughafenregionen.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface and acknowledgments

Foreword

Contents

CHAPTER 1 The airport region as planning challenge

The spatial problematic of airport regions

The case of Paris Charles de Gaulle

Planning as investigative lens

The long narrative as study approach

CHAPTER 2 Airports and their spatial impacts

Air transport: a contemporary and evolving reality

Airports, global cities, and the “glocal” condition

Airports and metropolitan space

The economic importance of air transport

The negative externalities of airport operation

Asymmetries and controversies of airport impacts

Planning approaches to airport regions

CHAPTER 3 Planning in Paris

Institutional and planning change in France

The Paris metropolis: a portrait

Threads in planning discourse and action

CHAPTER 4 Aviation infrastructure in the “golden era” (1960 – 1974)

Aviation and technocracy in the post-war period

Establishing the necessity of a new airport

Planning the deployment of Paris-Nord and the 1965 SDAURP

First ramifications of projected externalities

The airport as economic structuring facility

Channeling development: the working group Paris-Nord

Development versus planning

The autonomous airport site

CHAPTER 5 Disillusionment and adaptation (1974 – 1986)

The airport region in the 1976 SDAURIF

A green belt in Plaine de France?

Regulatory responses to noise impact

Organizing ground access to the airport

Attempts to enhance accessibility

Airport planning in a changing context

An (un)planned urbanization and the Paris Nord complex

CHAPTER 6 Development in times of liberalization (1986 – 1994)

Emergence of a new competitive context

The airport area as development hub

Strategic sector, problematic territory?

The awakening of ADP

The awakening of local actors

Airport impacts and a difficult dialogue

The airport area enters planning discourses

In search of a development strategy

(Re)Designing CDG as competitive asset

The airport city takes off

A new wave of projects and a persistent stalemate

Planning the CDG region: the plan of Mission Roissy

Airports as centers of European caliber and the 1994 SDRIF

CHAPTER 7 Fatigue and renewal (1994 – 2004)

What future for the airport-area projects?

The airport city struggles

An intractable expansion

Promoting growth, managing impact: a compromise

Competitiveness by design

An undecided territory

The renewal of the discourse

Denial and acceptance: third airport and CDG Express

In search of spatial governance

A roadmap for planning?

CHAPTER 8 The airport region of the global city (2004 – 2013)

A region and an airport in need of evolution

Articulating planning strategies

A new governmental impetus

A development boom

Grand Paris, Grand Roissy, and the “airport corridor”

In search of spatial coherence

Development as consensus?

Converging ideals and the 2013 SDRIF

The elusive governance of the airport region

CHAPTER 9 Planning the impossible: evolving strategies and tactics

The Paris CDG airport region over time: a synopsis of spatial change

Evolving planning approaches in the context of Paris

Diachronic airport-related wicked dilemmas

The rational, the strategic, and the spatial

Planning the impossible?

Annexes

1. Common Options For Airport Regions (COFAR)

2. Current regulatory framework for aircraft noise in Paris

About the author

Bibliography

Illustration credits and data sources

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-0356-2152-7

OCLC:

1262308211