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Spatial planning in France

Spatial planning is defined as the public will to organize the human and economic geography of a given space in a balanced way, taking into consideration the pre-existing data and constraints specific to that area.
By Population & Avenir Updated on November 6, 2025
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  • Journal article

    The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: what implications for decentralization in France?

    In Population & Avenir (2025/1 n° 771)

  • Journal article

    "Urban exodus": the battle of statistics… and territorial development

    In Population & Avenir (2025/3 n° 773)

  • Journal article

    A victory for geography in the war for water: but what next?

    In Population & Avenir (2025/3 n° 773)

  • Journal article

    France: has a discrete recentralization scored five victories?

    In Population & Avenir (2024/2 No 767)

  • Journal article

    The Olympic Games in Paris and Territorial Development

    In Population & Avenir (2024/4 No 769)

  • Journal article

    The geography of France’s Olympic medals: did Paris shine?

    In Population & Avenir (2024/5 No 770)

  • Journal article

    The benefits of big city development for everybody else: myth or reality?

    In Population & Avenir (2022/4 n° 759)

  • Journal article

    Town mouse, country mouse: a love/hate relationship?

    In Population & Avenir (2022/4 n° 759)

  • Journal article

    Sustainable mobility, rurality and working from home: what can Third Places actually do?

    In Population & Avenir (2023/4 No 764)

  • Journal article

    Environment: which territories are being prioritized for the ecological transition?

    In Population & Avenir (2023/4 No 764)

  • Journal article

    French coastlines and the challenges of climate change

    In Population & Avenir (2023/5 No 765)

  • Book

    Les très riches heures des territoires

  • Journal article

    French territories: living resources feed innovation in economic development

    In Population & Avenir (2023/2 No 762)

  • Journal article

    French territories facing land sobriety. A salutary revolution in land use planning?

    In Les analyses de Population & Avenir (2023/2 No 44)

  • Journal article

    What geography for State support to territories?

    In Population & Avenir (2022/1 n° 756)

  • Journal article

    Territorial Development: the “Burning Obligation” to Define a Nationwide Policy

    In Population & Avenir (2022/3 n° 758)

  • Journal article

    Rail transport: is France shifting its focus away from high speed?

    In Population & Avenir (2022/3 n° 758)

  • Book

    L'aménagement du territoire

    Armand Colin (2021)
  • Book chapter

    Chapitre 21. Politiques d’aménagement du territoire, populations et peuplement

    In Populations, peuplement et territoires en France (2022)

  • Journal article

    Geographers and Spatial Justice: Genealogy of a Complicated Relationship

    In Annales de géographie (2011/2 No 678)

  • Journal article

    The unequal geography of public services and territorial development

    In Population & Avenir (2019/5 No 745)

  • Book

    Le nouvel espace français

    Armand Colin (2009)
  • Journal article

    Rethinking regional planning after the Covid-19 pandemic. The example of the Grand Paris Express (GPE) and its urban planning projects

    In Les analyses de Population & Avenir (2021/3 No 33)

  • Journal article

    DATAR: Forty Years of History

    In Revue française d’administration publique (2006/3 No 119)

  • Journal article

    Une histoire à ma façon : l'aménagement du territoire dans l'enseignement de la géographie

    In L'Information géographique (2009/2 Vol. 73)

  • Journal article

    Justice… over Space

    In Annales de géographie (2009/1 No 665-666)

  • Journal article

    L'aménagement à l'heure de l'Europe : une construction territoriale imparfaitement partagée ?

    In L'Information géographique (2007/4 Vol. 71)

  • Journal article

    Managing Regions

    In Le journal de l'école de Paris du management (2005/4 No 54)

  • Journal article

    How Can the Territories Gain from the Application of Principles of Justice?

    In Population & Avenir (2022/2 n° 757)

  • Issue

    New Cities Revisited, Thirty Years Later

    Espaces et sociétés (2005/1 No 119)
  • Issue

    Territories and rapid transport services. Do highways, airports and high-speed trains automatically generate development? And inevitable inequalities between territories?

    Les analyses de Population & Avenir (2022/2 No 39)
  • Journal article

    Phases of French spatial and regional planning: standards of public action to enlighten a confused historicity

    In Annales de géographie (2021/5 No 741)

  • Journal article

    French territories and mobility: growing inequalities in transport networks?

    In Les analyses de Population & Avenir (2022/5 No 42)

  • Book chapter

    Aménagement durable du territoire

    In Dictionnaire Collectivités territoriales et Développement Durable (2017)

  • Journal article

    The end of urbanization in France? Urban-rural settlement in strong recomposition

    In Les analyses de Population & Avenir (2022/1 No 38)

  • Book chapter

    Chapitre 25. Une stratégie de réindustrialisation pour la France

    In Crise de la connaissance et connaissance de la crise (2022)

  • Book chapter

    Chapitre 8. L’État et l’aménagement des territoires

    In Introduction à l'analyse des territoires (2016)

  • Journal article

    Are the French Regions at Last being Empowered to Develop their Territory?

    In Population & Avenir (2017/3 No 733)

  • Book

    Géopolitique de l'aménagement du territoire - 3e éd.

    Armand Colin (2018)
  • Journal article

    What spatial planning? Faced with the challenges of sustainable development, decentralisation and globalisation

    In Les analyses de Population & Avenir (2020/9 No 27)

  • Chapter from Que sais-je ? / Repères

    Chapitre III. Voies politiques de l’aménagement du territoire

    In L'Aménagement du territoire (2021)

  • Book chapter

    Chapitre 2. Les politiques publiques en faveur des marges

    In La France des marges (2017)

  • Book chapter

    Aménagement du territoire

    In Dictionnaire des politiques territoriales (2020)

  • Journal article

    Cities and countryside in France: a great territorial divide?

    In Les analyses de Population & Avenir (2022/4 No 41)

  • Journal article

    Les moteurs du développement territorial

    In Revue d’Économie Rég. & Urbaine (2018/4 Octobre)

  • Journal article

    Rural France: Neglected Potential?

    In Population & Avenir (2017/1 No 731)

  • Journal article

    Territorial development theory

    In Géographie, économie, société (2015/3 Vol. 17)

  • Chapter from Que sais-je ? / Repères

    Voies politiques de l'aménagement du territoire

    In L’aménagement du territoire (2012)

  • Journal article

    Territorial projects and repopulation policies

    In Population & Avenir (2022/4 n° 759)

  • Issue

    Union européenne, aménagement et développement des territoires

    L'Information géographique (2015/1 Vol. 79)