La Grande-Motte, Ville permanente, ville saisonnière//La Grande-Motte, a town for all seasons and summertime resort - article ; n°616 ; vol.109, pg 631-654

J. Rieucau

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Annales de Géographie - Année 2000 - Volume 109 - Numéro 616 - Pages 631-654
La Grande-Motte was created from scratch as a tourist resort in 1966 as part of the French government's plan for touristic development on the Languedoc-Roussillon coast. Up to the 1980s., it was a seaside resort with two components: a yachting harbour and a residential area. Nowadays, however, it has developed into a dual seaside resort, including a permanent town with differentiated districts, and a summertime town over which the former tends to encroach. A discontinuous dissociation/association axis separates the two components of the city. A complex society has been in the making for the last thirty years, its main characteristics being the increase of permanent population and of old-age pensioners. Alongside these two groups of people there are frequent visitors, increasingly present even during the winter, week-enders who own a house or a flat, and lastly holiday-makers in the summer season.
La Grande-Motte was created from scratch as a tourist resort in 1966 as part of the French government's plan for touristic development on the Languedoc-Roussillon coast. Up to the 1980s., it was a seaside resort with two components: a yachting harbour and a residential area. Nowadays, however, it has developed into a dual seaside resort, including a permanent town with differentiated districts, and a summertime town over which the former tends to encroach. A discontinuous dissociation/association axis separates the two components of the city. A complex society has been in the making for the last thirty years, its main characteristics being the increase of permanent population and of old-age pensioners. Alongside these two groups of people there are frequent visitors, increasingly present even during the winter, week-enders who own a house or a flat, and lastly holiday-makers in the summer season.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: ANNALES_DE_GEOGRAPHIE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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