@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.0930, 

TITLE={Event and creativity in Saint-Etienne: Links, changes and conflicts in the fabric and practice of the urban}, 
  
AUTHOR={Georges-Henry Laffont, }, 
	
JOURNAL={City and Tourism}, 
	
VOLUME={2}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1}, 
	
YEAR={2023}, 

URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Event-and-creativity-in-Saint-Etienne-Links-changes-and-conflicts-in-the-fabric}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.0930}, 
	
ISSN={2976-5897}, 
	
ABSTRACT={By adapting the creative city model to the local context, Saint-Etienne has been implementing an urban policy since the mid-1990s with the aim of renewing its urban tissue and producing a dynamic urban image. With design as a marker, local public and private actors have had recourse to events, emblematic architectural or urban achievements, a heritage policy of labelling and to the development of a creative tourism offer. By combining analyses of discourses and documents, observations of individual and collective practices during events or in transformed places with the analysis of the spaces themselves, this analytical and exploratory study discusses the articulations, transformations and tensions between the event-based and the creative in the thinking, the making and the practice of the urban.}}