Abstract
A north eastern american county, inhabited by around a hundred thousand people at the end of the second world war, happens to be incorporated into the economic and social mutations of the american nation. Without having a strong urban and industrial tradition, Dutchess county, New York, became the central territory of the world leader of the computer industry : International Business Machines. The setting up of the corporation, rightly felt to be the unexpected opportunity to boost the local economy, seems today to have been a major cause of the economical, social and spatial imbalance experienced by the county since then. A strong dualism appeared in the economic structure ; an unprecedented population explosion lead to the breaking up of traditionnal social relations and lead to the juxtaposing of two populations with different levels of income and different fields of interest. Morover, the lack of planning of this local development lead to a deep and swift change in the land use, and a complete desorganisation of the regional space.
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