Construction territoriale et développement local: l'exemple d'Alep en Syrie

Rabih Banat and Améziane Ferguène

Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, 2009, vol. novembre, issue 4, 683-710

Abstract: This article explores the territorial dynamics in the city of Aleppo -Syria- as a way to reveal the factors of its success. Our analysis depends on a methodology that interprets the results of an empirical work with the help of a theoretical framework based on the concepts of both the localized productive system and the constructed territory. With such a methodology, this article analyzes the historical process of territorial construction and the resulting dynamics of local socio-economic development. This analysis discloses the crucial factors of local development : the handicraft inheritance updated by the local actors, the workforce skills, the regulation induced by the local socio-culture... and the international openness. As a conclusion, this article questions the future of this territory that, under the effect of globalization, has confronted major challenges that oblige the local actors to reconsider the source of their competitiveness.

Keywords: territory; local development; industrialization; Local Productive System; Aleppo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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