Paper
Authors: Laure Cormier (PhD student UP Landscape, AGROCAMPUS OUEST, centre d’Angers, Institut national d’horticulture et de paysage, France) , Monique Toublanc (Assistant professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Versailles, France) , Jacques Baudry (Senior Scientist, lnstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, SAD-Paysage, Rennes, France)
“Greenway” has become trendy in the French planners’ vocabulary. Indeed, this term has many meanings, related to both the environmental and social characteristics of a territory. It carries many positive cultural values. There are not one but several types of greenways in according to specific area (urban, peri-urban, and rural) with different objectives (recreation, nature conservation, human well being). Nowadays, the French term for greenways is “trame verte”. This expression is a planning concept dealing mostly with private land.
The objective of the paper is threefold. First, we shall look at the changes in the content of “greenways” in this international literature; second we shall examine what brought about the interest of “trame verte” in landscape planning and environmental management in France. Third, we shall propose a coarse assessment of the new French law on “trame verte”.
Keywords: greenways, french, view, planner, urban, cultural
How to Cite: Cormier, L. , Toublanc, M. & Baudry, J. (2010) “Is the French view of greenways avant-garde or déjà-vu?”, Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning. 3(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.883