Planning conflicts and social proximity: a reassessment

Arnaud Lecourt and Guy Baudelle

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2004, vol. 7, issue 3, 287-301

Abstract: The term "proximity" has long been absent from the geographical vocabulary. This term is currently re-emerging among researchers in social geography who are questioning the relationship between spatial and social proximity. This paper analyses how a conflict linked to a planning project can generate social proximity, notably by evaluating the conditions in which spatial proximity can bring together the participants opposed to the project. This analysis aims at re-assessing the correlation between social and spatial proximities. It gives evidence that, when the conflict occurs, it generates social proximity between the individuals sharing a common aim and that spatial proximity participates in the process as a necessary condition, but not sufficient enough, for its development

Keywords: planning conflict; land planning; geographical proximity; social interaction; territory; social geography; social proximity; spatial proximity; sustainable development; conflict management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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