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Contesting the Champs-Elysees

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Stewart Clegg

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Abstract

World-renowned urban places struggle to retain the qualities that made them famous as the fabric of the city changes. Often their specific charms and qualities, indeed, their identity, are threatened by organization changes in the urban environment. This article shows how the ‘Champs-Elysées’ is fragmenting into anonymous subspaces that raise the risk of it becoming a non-place. We show the role of a specific institutional influence, the Comité des Champs-Elysées, which seeks to preserve the site despite the heterogeneity of its members. Two strategies emerge from their actions: deceleration of the flows of people is sought to slow and channel people on the Avenue within a modernized iconic space, while the constitution of events seeks to combine different sights and make them coexist together as a mosaic of experiences. The article concludes by showing the limits of influence of regulation that leaves the future of the space undetermined.

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Author(s): Deroy X, Clegg SR

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Change Management

Year: 2012

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

Pages: 355-373

Online publication date: 18/06/2012

ISSN (print): 1469-7017

ISSN (electronic): 1479-1811

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2012.673075

DOI: 10.1080/14697017.2012.673075

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