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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects

• TWO PROJECTS
• Enhancing the image of the Jura Mountains
• 2. Enhancing the image of and promoting cultural
  historical sites for the reinforcement of the
  regional attractiveness  Petites Cités
  Comtoises de Caractère 

Local endogenous development and urban
regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects
ENHANCING THE IMAGE OF THE JURA MOUNTAINS

• Objectives
• ? Faciliting the North/South links in the area
  (less blackspots)
• Contributing to a better identification of the
  Jura mountains
• ? A quality for the everyday life arrangements
  of town and village centres, improvement of
  village and town entries
• ? A tourist attractiveness enhancing the
  natural and architectural heritage

Local endogenous development and urban
regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
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ENHANCING THE IMAGE OF THE JURA MOUNTAINS
Which Strategy ? Enhancing the quality of the
area via quality arrangements to support the
tourist and economic development
How ? ? By raising the awareness of the potential
managers of planning projects recommendations
for trafic, urban and landscape arrangements
? By setting up a network - Between the Région
and the  Départements  of Doubs and Jura (two
others administrative levels) official
agreement, - Between the Région and the other
local levels (municipalities, groups of
municipalities).
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regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
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ENHANCING THE IMAGE OF THE JURA MOUNTAINS
The Actions
? Informing potential actors
? Creation of a leaflet to inform on the common
project and to raise the awarenness of local
actors
? Organisation of 4 meetings which gathered more
than 200 local actors (local elected people,
potential project managers) to explain the project
Local endogenous development and urban
regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects
ENHANCING THE IMAGE OF THE JURA MOUNTAINS
The Actions
? Creation of guidelines advice and
recommendations for planning projects, examples
of good practices (work in progress)
Local endogenous development and urban
regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects
ENHANCING THE IMAGE OF THE JURA MOUNTAINS
The Actions
? Creation of guidelines advice and
recommendations for planning projects, examples
of good practices
? Carrying out pilot experiences to promote the
development of the whole project (creation of a
leaflet in progress) chosen given their
transferable elements 8 projects selected (4
operations, 4 studies)
? Assistance to the cities or groups of cities in
their planning project Creation of guidelines
26 projects identified, more than 13 contacts in
situ (recommendations, advice for each of them)
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regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects
ENHANCING THE IMAGE OF THE JURA MOUNTAINS
The Actions
? Research for the implementation of a
communication tool
Why? To reinforce the tourist attractivity by
inciting tourists of Northern Europe to discover
the Jura Mountains during their trip towards the
South of Europe
How? by offering a product based on new
technologies console (Global Positionning
System) and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Output foreseen to federate the various current
initiatives to work out on a common product
Local endogenous development and urban
regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
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ENHANCING THE  Petites Cités Comtoises de
Caractère  NETWORK
Petites Cités Comtoises de Caractère Network
of 28 cities

• Objectives
• Promoting the specificities and characteristics
  of these cities by supporting a programme in
  favour of the enhancement of their urban,
  landscape and architectural heritage

Local endogenous development and urban
regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
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ENHANCING THE  Petites Cités Comtoises de
Caractère  NETWORK
Which Strategy ? Each city voluntarily decides
to be committed to this programme which becomes
the priority of the city in its municipal plan
Which Methodology ? ? Setting up of specific
working groups gathering the local decision
makers and all the authorities concerned (other
qualified communities, services of the State,
technicians...),
? To carry work out in network (with the other
communities the groups of municipalities, Pays
) and with a concerted process (which includes
the local population)
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regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects
ENHANCING THE  Petites Cités Comtoises de
Caractère  NETWORK
Specificities of the programme ? Multiannual,
? General approach urban, environmental,
heritage, approach which takes the various uses
in account ? Progressive and adapted
implementation by successive stages, ?
Qualitative (obligation to select for the
pre-operational study a multi-field team)
Number of cities engaged in the programme ?4
test cities at the beginning, ?17 cities for
the time being
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regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects
ENHANCING THE  Petites Cités Comtoises de
Caractère  NETWORK
The case of the municipality of Orgelet
General study carried out in three directions
1. Valorisation of the architectural heritage
rehabilitation, use reallocation, bringing in
light, tourist signs, 2. Public spaces
arrangement places, gardens, pedestrian and
cyclist ways 3. Accomodation reflexion for
measures concerning the private and municipal
residences.
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regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
case projects
ENHANCING THE  Petites Cités Comtoises de
Caractère  NETWORK
The case of the municipality of Orgelet
Some achievements
? Arrangement of the town hall

• Creation of a pedestrian route for the discovery
  of the city heritage
• Installation of a media library,
• ? Rehabilitation of the site of the old castle,
• ? Arrangement of an associative cultural space,
• ? Rehabilitation of the Vaucluse hotel,

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regeneration of small alpine towns
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GRAINAU 9th 10 th May 2005Franche-Comtés
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Some first findings on Franche-Comtés projects
? Pedagogy of project (between the local
actors, research consultancies, partners)
?  Time  of the project maturation,
appropriation, completion ? Adaptation of the
engineering according to the output foreseen ? a
positive effect of networking network triggers
new projects which correspond to a qualitative
objective
Local endogenous development and urban
regeneration of small alpine towns