Villes d'eaux, villes de loisirs

Carribon, Carole

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“…Sustainability 2021, 13, 5531 2 of 24 Spa towns also represent the result of a collective concept, generated and developed as a manifesto of the emerging bourgeois in opposition to the unhealthy conditions of the industrial city [4,7,11,12]. Thanks to their integrated system of quality, where natural landscape, therapeutic gardens, public spaces, thermal baths and cultural buildings [4,7,11,12] complemented a prolific cultural environment, spa towns became gathering points and international exchange platforms for politicians, artists and intellectuals [7,13,14].…”

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Adaptive Reuse Practices and Sustainable Urban Development: Perspectives of Innovation for European Historic Spa Towns

2021

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Spa towns represented, for decades, a point of reference for the European panorama of health, tourism and cultural exchange. They have been the first tourist destination in the modern sense, as well as a manifesto for a renewed demand of quality and laboratories for architectural and urban experimentations. A product of territorial relations, they have been able to aggregate ideas, capital and skills in a generative logic. However, from the second half of the 20th Century, these cities underwent a series of structural changes related to health and tourism trends that deeply affected all levels of their local systems. Today, these places are witnessing numerous episodes of degradation and abandonment of their built cultural heritage. Promoting a place-based approach, this paper argues that spa towns could be reconsidered as strategic resources in the construction of the territorial capital and that adaptive reuse practices, if integrated into strategic visions, can represent a driver for the activation of a sustainability transition based on ‘fully circular’ processes. Here, the abandoned built cultural heritage represents an opportunity space, a potential catalyst of innovative synergies, and a meeting point between local and territorial interests. While referring both to theoretical profiles and applied research experiences, the paper frames urban transformation and adaptive reuse processes as an integrated challenge within change management logics. Finally, the paper proposes a set of thematic recommendations in order to stimulate the creation of receptive environments for change and deal with the different times, scales, actors and the economic and non-economic interests involved.

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Adaptive Reuse Practices and Sustainable Urban Development: Perspectives of Innovation for European Historic Spa Towns

2021

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Contribution à l’étude des petites villes françaises– Focus sur les petites villes thermales et leurs caractéristiques démographiques

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2021

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La fabrique des territoires du « bien vieillir » : recompositions du thermalisme et gouvernement municipal en France. Le cas de Bagnoles de l’Orne (Normandie)

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2017

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International audienceAfter World War II, French thermal cure centres came to be considered as territories where diseases and ailments linked to ageing were dealt with as the period was also that of the implementation of the Social Security and the repayment of mineral water cures by the Health Insurance. Nevertheless, the medical service offered by thermal care was challenged by the public authorities in the 1990s. This threat hastened the mobilization of thermatology’s players who organized themselves nationally in order to defend its interests to the State. Doing so, they aimed at reminding people of their legitimacy and expertise in terms of treating age-related ailments. But they also took up the paradigm of “getting old well” and “active ageing”, which they considered as a chance to boost a weakened business because of the dramatic decrease of thermal cure centres. This reorganization of French thermatology can be analyzed at a local scale through the case of Bagnoles de l’Orne’s thermal cure centre, located in Normandy. The modernization of the business was largely accompanied and oriented by the elected representatives who were willing to make the territories attractive, and it disrupted former agreements. Thus, two ways of growing old tend to coexist on this territory. Constantly looking for ways of adapting the cure to recent stakes in public health, thermatology professionals wish to keep welcoming old and ill patients. But a new approach of ageing also developed: centred on prevention, physical activity and well-being for healthy and solvent people, it goes alongside an increasing pressure laid on successful ageing.Avec l’instauration de la Sécurité sociale et le remboursement des cures par l’Assurance maladie, les stations thermales françaises sont, au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, consacrées comme des territoires d’accompagnement des pathologies et affections qui marquent l’avancée en âge. Intervient néanmoins, au cours des années 1990, une remise en cause par les pouvoirs publics du service médical rendu par les soins thermaux. Cette menace précipite la mobilisation des acteurs du thermalisme pour défendre les intérêts de la filière auprès de l’État. Organisés nationalement, ils cherchent alors à rappeler leur légitimité et leur savoir-faire dans la prise en charge du vieillissement pathologique. Mais ils se saisissent également du paradigme du « bien vieillir » et du « vieillissement actif », voyant là une opportunité de croissance pour relancer une activité par ailleurs fragilisée par la chute de fréquentation des établissements thermaux. Située en Normandie, la station de Bagnoles de l’Orne constitue un cas d’étude pour observer, au niveau local, la recomposition du thermalisme. Accompagnée et orientée par les élus dans un souci d’attractivité territoriale, la modernisation de l’offre thermale bouleverse des équilibres anciens. Ainsi deux vieillesses tendent-elles désormais à cohabiter sur ce territoire. Cherchant à adapter la cure aux enjeux récents de santé publique, les professionnels...

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Villes d'eaux, villes de loisirs

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Adaptive Reuse Practices and Sustainable Urban Development: Perspectives of Innovation for European Historic Spa Towns

Adaptive Reuse Practices and Sustainable Urban Development: Perspectives of Innovation for European Historic Spa Towns

Contribution à l’étude des petites villes françaises– Focus sur les petites villes thermales et leurs caractéristiques démographiques

La fabrique des territoires du « bien vieillir » : recompositions du thermalisme et gouvernement municipal en France. Le cas de Bagnoles de l’Orne (Normandie)

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