Frette-sur-Seine (Val-d'Oise) landscape inventory

Abstract

The Frette-sur-Seine, small city with a population of 4,000, is located 15km from Paris. The Seine river, vacation constructions built at the turn of the century, and a dense plant cover explain the landscape quality of the hillsides. There are many associations of protection of the environment in this city, and their opinions are not always in line with the city officials' choices (densification and development of some areas,...); this explains the difficulty to manage the future of the city landscape. In the framework of the study performed to take into account landscape into urban development documents, CAUE proposed to the city a landscape inventory. The confrontation of this inventory with the current land-use plan (LUP) is used to define the rules of a « qualitative » LUP. This article explains the various levels of analysis used to perform this landscape inventory. The study allowed to increase the awareness of elected officials and technical services about the landscape concept and the inventory principle. It highlighted the need for a large scale intercommunity approach, for an educational approach and for a monitoring in order to optimize the use of the inventory.