L'Eurocité basque Bayonne-Saint-Sébastien, une construction urbaine transfrontalière (The basque euro-city Bayonne San Sebastian, a transborder urban construction)

摘要

The institutional end of the borders inside the European Union since 1992 has generated a big trend to new transborder territories. Between the ideology of an Europe of the regions and the revival of an historical territory, the "Pays Basque " experienced an important movement of territorial creation. The first steps were taken by the invention of transborder agglomeration linking Bayonne and San Sebastian. The public actors involved laid the institutional foundations of a cooperation between two hitherto separated entities with the goal of an urban territorial fusion. The so built agglomeration is an heterogeneous space made of new limits independent of the ancient international border. From now on the latter seems to exist only in the behaviour and the mind of the inhabitants, which indeed coul be a real brake to the evolution.