L'espace nîmois: en marge ou en attente?

Auteurs :
SAVEY, S.
VOLLE, J. P.

Description :
Its brilliant industrial past (XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries) has left the town of Nîmes with more handicaps than advantages. Traditionally a workers'town, Nîmes has lost much of its interest for the industrial managers who are now trying to find a basin of cheap and docile labour-force. In the agricultural region, reconverted thanks to the CNARBRL, the accumulation of capital is not important enough to generate a new industrial activity linked with agricultural production. This region is now partly controlled by multinational corporations (Libby's-Lenzbourg). Therefore, the Nîmes bourgeoisie, looking for new profits, turns to investments in tourism (Port-Camargue) and tries to protect its town from the influence of Montpellier, the regional capital. The problem is a political question: the future of Nîmes depends on the outcome of inside struggles but also of those in which local and central powers are involved.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Bulletin de la Société languedocienne de géographie Montpellier, 1979, vol. 13, n°. 2, p. 167-201, Références bibliographiques : 30 réf.

Date :
1979