%0 Journal Article
%T Alpine gentrification: The mountain village as a metropolitan neighbourhood
%A Manfred Perlik
%J Revue de G¨¦ographie Alpine
%D 2011
%I Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche Alpine
%R 10.4000/rga.1370
%X The article deals with the transformation of mountainous areas into residence places that replace older economic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and even tourism) in the European mountains from the perspective of regional development and the influence on the regionally anchored assets, known as territorial capital. This new tendency affects the European mountains in two ways and is one element of the constitution of metropolitan regions (metro-regions) that combines metropolitan cores and leisure landscapes as new integral entities. During this process the landscape becomes a new rare commodity and becomes part of the accumulation process of capital. The article states that concepts of landscape aesthetics and amenities cannot explain these new dynamics as they hide spatio-economic processes as well as the role of landscape commodification for the new residents. The new residents are rather multi-locals than migrants. The multi-local character and the selective use of landscape commodities make it difficult to create embeddedness, which is crucial to maintaining and developing territorial capital. It may be assumed that the part-time character of the new residents may rather weaken than strengthen the existing local structures. Therefore it seems necessary to develop specific efforts for each different group of new residents to make from part-time residents (at least part-time) regional actors. Moreover, the concept of regional development based on innovative actors itself has to be questioned as long as consumptive aspects are the prevailing landscape use. Cet article aborde la transformation de r¨¦gions de montagne en lieux de r¨¦sidence rempla ant des secteurs ¨¦conomiques plus anciens (agriculture, industrie manufacturi¨¨re, tourisme) dans les montagnes europ¨¦ennes. Il se place dans la perspective du d¨¦veloppement r¨¦gional et de son impact sur les ressources r¨¦gionales fixes, le   capital territorial  . Cette nouvelle tendance affecte les montagnes europ¨¦ennes de deux mani¨¨res, et participe ¨¤ la formation de r¨¦gions m¨¦tropolitaines qui combinent centres m¨¦tropolitains et environnements de loisirs fond¨¦s sur les attraits du paysage pour constituer de nouvelles entit¨¦s int¨¦gr¨¦es. Au cours du processus, le paysage devient un bien de consommation nouveau et rare, qui joue un r le dans l¡¯accumulation du capital investi. L¡¯article ¨¦tablit que les concepts d¡¯esth¨¦tique du paysage et d¡¯agr¨¦ments ne suffisent pas ¨¤ expliquer cette nouvelle dynamique, car ils m¨¦connaissent les processus spatio-¨¦conomiques ainsi que le r le de la marchandisation du paysage pou
%K metropolisation
%K multi-local dwelling
%K amenity-led migration
%K uneven regional development
%K rural regions
%K mountainous regions
%K territorial capital
%K m¨¦tropolisation
%K r¨¦sidence multilocale
%K migration d¡¯agr¨¦ment
%K d¨¦veloppement r¨¦gional in¨¦gal
%K r¨¦gions rurales
%K r¨¦gions de montagne
%K capital territorial
%U http://rga.revues.org/1370