Contesting the Champs-Elysées

Deroy, X; Clegg, S

Contesting the Champs-Elysées

Deroy, X Clegg, S

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Change Management, 2012, 12 (3), pp. 355 - 373
Issue Date:: 2012-09-01

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dc.contributor.author	Deroy, X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-09-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Change Management, 2012, 12 (3), pp. 355 - 373	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1469-7017	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/23307
dc.description.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. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Change Management	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/14697017.2012.673075	en_US
dc.title	Contesting the Champs-Elysées	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	12	en_US
utslib.for	1503 Business and Management	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
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pubs.issue	3	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	12	en_US

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. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

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