De la cohésion à la réciprocité territoriale, un renouvellement des paradigmes de l’aménagement du territoire ? Réflexions à partir du cas de la Région Centre-Val de Loire (France)
From cohesion to territorial reciprocity, a renewal of territorial planning paradigms? Reflections based on the case of the Centre-Val de Loire Region (France)

Summary/Abstract: Territorial cohesion is a major leitmotif of spatial planning policies, in Europe, as in France, both at governmental, regional and local level. But the concept is still poorly stabilized, giving rise to different interpretations. In France, cohesion policy has taken precedence over a centralized and top-down approach to spatial planning. Cohesion presupposes a new territorial contract, where the State does not disappear, but becomes "facilitator" and "accompanying". It would therefore be a question of rethinking a territorial planning organized around the horizontal relations woven between the territories. Centre-Val de Loire Region, characterized by strong internal disparities in development, is used to illustrate the implementation of the territorial cohesion policy and its limits: In this region, as elsewhere, the contractual measures to support local territories, implemented by the EU, the State or the Regional Council, are proving insufficient to reduce territorial fractures. This is why after having analyzed the content of the concept and the imprecision of its definition, we are committed to specifying the issues of territorial cohesion at the level of the Centre-Val de Loire Region, through a focus on its territorial imbalances, to ultimately ask ourselves about a new paradigmatic perspective, that of “territorial reciprocity”, in order to allow an integrated and more cohesive regional development, articulating metropolitan and non-metropolitan dynamics.

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