La Grande-Motte, Ville permanente, ville saisonnière//La Grande-Motte, a town for all seasons and summertime resort
2000; Armand Colin; Volume: 109; Issue: 616 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/geo.2000.1820
ISSN1777-5884
Autores Tópico(s)French Urban and Social Studies
ResumoLa Grande-Motte was created from scratch as a tourist resort in 1966 as part of the French government's plan for touristic development on the Languedoc-Roussillon coast. Up to the 1980s., it was a seaside resort with two components: a yachting harbour and a residential area. Nowadays, however, it has developed into a dual seaside resort, including a permanent town with differentiated districts, and a summertime town over which the former tends to encroach. A discontinuous dissociation/association axis separates the two components of the city. A complex society has been in the making for the last thirty years, its main characteristics being the increase of permanent population and of old-age pensioners. Alongside these two groups of people there are frequent visitors, increasingly present even during the winter, week-enders who own a house or a flat, and lastly holiday-makers in the summer season.
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