%0 Journal Article %T Des controverses aux compromis. Les lignes de front du m¨¦tro bruxellois From controversies to compromises. The frontlines of Brussels metro %A C¨¦line Tellier %J Belgeo : Revue Belge de G¨¦ographie %D 2012 %I National Committee of Geography of Belgium, Soci¨¦t¨¦ Royale Belge de G¨¦ographie %X En 1963, le Minist¨¨re belge des Communications publie un document intitul¨¦ ¡°Promotion des Transports en commun dans les grandes agglom¨¦rations¡±, v¨¦ritable plaidoyer en faveur du transport public ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦chelle de cinq grandes villes belges. Dans cet article, nous proposons d¡¯analyser de mani¨¨re approfondie ce document pour comprendre la controverse fondatrice qui a justifi¨¦ les travaux du futur m¨¦tro ¨¤ Bruxelles. En faisant parler les archives institutionnelles, nous soutenons que le m¨¦tro bruxellois peut ¨ºtre consid¨¦r¨¦ comme le r¨¦sultat d¡¯un compromis entre les deux institutions ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦poque en charge de la mobilit¨¦ ¨¤ Bruxelles : le Minist¨¨re des Travaux Publics et le Minist¨¨re des Communications. Pr¨¦f¨¦rant r¨¦pondre aux normes de capacit¨¦ et de rapidit¨¦ d¨¦j¨¤ pr¨¦sentes dans le monde routier, le transport public a ainsi fait le deuil de la surface et, par l¨¤, a purifi¨¦ le d¨¦bat des mobilit¨¦s urbaines en une solution apparemment strictement technique, espace pacifi¨¦ o¨´ protagonistes d¡¯un champ d¨¦sormais commun peuvent s¡¯entendre et s¡¯allier. In 1963 the Belgian Ministry of Communications published a document entitled ¡°Promotion des Transports en commun dans les grandes agglom¨¦rations¡±, real plea for the defence of public transport on the scale of five Belgian cities. In this article, we propose to analyze this document deeply, to help the understanding of the founding controversy which justified the works of future metro in Brussels. By studying institutional archives, we maintain that the Brussels metro may be considered as the result of a compromise between the two institutions dealing with mobility at that time in Brussels: the Ministry of Civil Engineering and the Ministry of Communications. Through responding to capacity and speed standards already present in the field of road transport, public transport gave up the surface and turned the debate on urban mobility into an apparently strictly technical solution. In this pacified space players of a now common field can understand each other and cooperate. %K Brussels %K public transportation %K automobilism %K metro %K Ministry of Communications %K technical choices %K production of the city %K Bruxelles %K public %K automobilisme %K m¨¦tro %K Minist¨¨re des Communications %K choix techniques %K production de la ville %U http://belgeo.revues.org/6796