Le piémont géographique : essai pour une approche au prisme des interspatialités : étude croisée entre terrains alpin (Alpes franco-suisses) et carpatique (Roumanie)

摘要

If the mountain is an object that has continued to support the geographical discipline and its developments, the issue of thresholds the mountain has remained relatively marginal. Yet a growing interest in these areas is noteworthy. Many concepts animating discipline (interface, interspatialités, intermediate spaces ...) push to reconsider these blurred areas, the threshold of "the kind of space" or spatial category what the mountain. It is in this context what this crossover study conducted between land North of the Alps in France and Switzerland and field of Romanian Carpathians. This threshold of the mountain foothills called here, can not emerge as exclusively physical or topographical criteria that have longer relevant in an increasingly rooted in the humanities discipline. The foothills can then be defined as the space on which deploys a set of functions called "foothill's functions". It is these features that this is to capture, define, in order to identify the players and explain the spatial and temporal dynamics. These are also the territorial logic and metropolitan which are to be questioned, as these "foothill's functions" can be as many development opportunities, but also of reconciliation competition between territories and / or between cities. Therefore, it is also the genesis and operation of territoriality and, specifically, the process of urbanization who must be considered when we look at these "foothill's functions". Finally, crossover study allows, at least to some extent, to consider the comparison, despite all the pitfalls and limitations that it presents. Emerging paradoxes of this comparison will then constitute elements that may better understand what can be the thresholds of the mountain, but also to propose a new approach to study these courses.