“…They express past, present and projected relations between town and highland. As the vectors for representations and discourse these cognitive devices re-open the question of relations between city and highland, carrying on from work on cognitive categories (Debarbieux, 1999), the dimensions of identity (Fourny, 1999;Debarbieux, 2008) or the forms of territorial planning (Fourny, 1995;Vanier, 2006), particularly for Alpine metropolitan areas. They also raise questions about the emergence of current issues such as the ways of living in highland metropolitan areas (Fourny and Roux, 2017), aspects of in-between and hybrid habitability (Bourdeau, 2015) between city and highland, or indeed features of complex projects (Pia, 2015), the Alpine city (Diamantini, 2015) or its hyper-city counterpart (Corboz, 2000).…”