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Comté cheese, made from raw whole milk with local starter lactic acid bacteria, has been manufactured in the traditional manner in the French part of the Jura mountains since the 13th century. Its flavor vary not only by factors such as grass and hay, but also by geographical production sites. Connoisseurs are able to identify the origin of a certain number of cheeses, which raises the question of whether one can speak of georegions (terroirs) or specific geographical areas as in the case of wine. A new method of large-scale cartography (agro-pedological units) covering 20 cheese cooperatives provided a statistical comparison showing the different edaphic sectors. A sensory analysis of 106 cheeses from these 20 cooperatives (summer or winter cheese with 3 or 6 mo of ripening) has demonstrated Comté georegions corresponding to 85% of the edaphic sectors. Thus, these sectors are equivalent to cheese georegions that are natural entities represented synthetically by agropedological units that have their own vegetation and their own specific type of Comté cheese.

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La symbolisation procède du pouvoir qu'ont des acteurs sociaux identifiables d'investir volontairement de significations un lieu concret. Ce pouvoir contribue à l'aménagement de l'espace urbain et participe à l'élaboration ou à la reproduction de la centralité, en aboutissant à hiérarchiser les lieux. En outre, la dimension symbolique se caractérise par la possibilité qu'elle offre de faire communiquer entre eux les divers registres de la centralité, en transférant les valorisations sociales de l'un à l'autre, malgré la différence des systèmes de valeurs et des échelles de mesure. Quelques exemples, pris en particulier à Mexico et à Los Angeles, montrent que cette dimension est omniprésente tout en étant constamment soumise aux reconfigurations sémantiques opérées par les acteurs de la production urbaine.Symbolization comes from the power that identifiable social actors have to invest a concrete place with significations. This power is part of the process of urban planning and contributes to the development or reproduction of centrality, by introducing hierarchy between places. In addition, the symbolic realm is characterized by the ability it offers to communicate between the different dimensions of centrality, by transfering social values from one to another and crisscrossing criteria and measurement. Some examples, taken particularly in Mexico City and Los Angeles, show that the symbolizing process is omnipresent but under the dependence of a permanent reconfiguration of significations operated by the actors of urban production