Urban Renewal in France: Between Remote Control and Urban fabric
For the last ten years, urban renewal embodies the ambition to transform social housing neighborhoods with new means of intervention. It focuses on the production of less dense architectural and urban forms to accommodate households with diverse socio-professional profiles and ensure the social diversity in the concerned neighborhoods. Breaking with the policy of the city, the national targets set by the State must take into account, according to cities and neighborhoods, a resident participation of configurations of actors (politicians, civil society, lessors) who interpret differently the urban fabric and the meaning of diversity. From the example of Perpignan, this article aims to inform how the French model of public intervention in large groups of social housing still faces a fragile urban fabric which hesitates on governance models and resident participation in urban policies.