 From factories to suburban houses 
This article aims to analyze the restructuring of a precociously industrialized territory that has been facing socioeconomic changes and the processes of devaluation induced by such changes. The district of Terrenoire, which was independent until it merged with the City of Saint-Étienne in 1969, went through several industrial restructurings until the late 1990s, but still retains a strong legacy of an urban landscape shaped by industrialization. The relatively successful conversion of Terrenoire into a residential area cannot conceal the deep fragmentation of the neighbourhood. Between the utopia of an industrial countryside and the trivialization of an urban periphery, the district needs a project that can give a renewed meaning to its territory. Our analysis of the socio-spatial representations of Terrenoire residents, within the global context of vanishing industrial landscapes, shows the existence of divergent memories that contribute to local fragmentation.