Territories at the core of a planning conflict : Stuttgart 21 and the European Magistrale Paris-Budapest ; Des territoires au coeur d'un conflit d'aménagement : Stuttgart 21 et la Magistrale européenne Paris-Budapest

Abstract

Numerous renovation projects for train stations and their districts are set in European metropolises and arouse extensive interest among geographers on land issues and the reorganization of the actors' interactions in these long projects. The originality of this thesis resides in two elements: the multi-scale study of an European transnational axis (the European Magistrale Paris-Budapest) devoted to high speed rails, of which our field, Stuttgart, would constitute the pivot on the one hand; and the apprehension of the protest against Stuttgart 21 through an unprecedented spatio-temporal analysis of the struggle for, by and over space, on the other hand. The territorial anchorage of our study is based on the capital city of the German Land of Baden-Württemberg, which appears to be one of the most competitive regions in the EU and historically involved in its political bodies. Our work has enabled us to understand how the railway and urban development project, Stuttgart 21, materially modified the urban planning of the city center and all the regional spaces affected by the new high-speed line between Stuttgart and Ulm. In parallel, we explored through semi-structured interviews the intangible changes, in the long implementation of the project, the relations between the actors according to the levels represented as well as the image of the city of Stuttgart. ; Les projets de rénovation de gare et de quartier de gare sont nombreux dans les métropoles européennes suscitant un intérêt prolixe chez les géographes au sujet des enjeux fonciers et des recompositions des jeux d'acteurs à l'œuvre dans ces longs projets. Deux éléments forment l'originalité de notre sujet : d'une part l'étude multiscalaire d'un axe transnational européen (La Magistrale européenne Paris-Budapest) consacré à la grande vitesse dont notre terrain, Stuttgart, constituerait le pivot ; d'autre part l'appréhension de la contestation à Stuttgart 21 à travers une analyse spatio-temporelle inédite de la lutte pour, par et sur l'espace. L'ancrage ...