URBAN TRANSPORT: CHANGES IN EXPERTISE IN FRANCE IN THE 1970S AND 1980S

Analysing changes in the professional environment of experts in urban transport throws light on the evolution and aims of planning in France. Here the 1970s were characterized by active town planning combined with revival of public transport. New ways of appraising the restructuring of networks and of towns evolved under the influence in particular of experts who acted as intermediaries on social and economic factors involved in local decision-making. These experts had dual professional loyalties, central and local. They drew their cultural basis as much from the technocratic rationalism of immediate post-war economic planning as from the libertarian and ecological social movements of the 1970s. The theory of democratic, decentralized and contractual planning which took shape during the 1970s was institutionalized in the 1980s in the form of the urban travel plans. However, this took place in the context of deregulation and illustrates the ambiguous environment of the experts. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Lassave, P
  • Offner, J M
• Publication Date: 1989-4-6

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 119-134
• Serial:
  • Transport Reviews
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 0144-1647
  • EISSN: 1464-5327
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ttrv20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deregulation; Development; History; Public transit; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: France
• ITRD Terms: 144: Deregulation; 9013: Development; 8036: France; 9096: History; 744: Public transport; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Highways; History; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493518
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 1990 12:00AM