Les comités d'intérêts locaux de l'agglomération lyonnaise. Grandeur et incertitudes d'une forme associative

Abstract

Local interest committees in the Greater Lyon area For more than a century in Lyon, Local Interest Committees have brought together citizens wishing to settle the many problems in their living environment : drainage, transport, embellishment, etc. Since the 1960s, these committees, grouped into a Union, have asserted themselves as a force of proposition and mediation that claims to be non-political and aims to resolve important urban matters such as the creation of a metro. The stimulus to create associations, generated by problems of social exclusion and environmental nuisance on the scale of both the neighbourhood and the region, is destabilizing the action and legitimacy of the Committees.