ABSTRACT

Metropolisation leads to the physical, functional, and symbolic integration of urban natural areas. In this context, can metropolitan mountains be considered vast public parks in their own right, adapting to new scales of functionality within their territory? To tackle this question, we carried out a questionnaire-based survey among local residents and users of Sainte-Victoire mountain in the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, France. Its results highlight the existence of proximity-based perceptions and practices towards Sainte-Victoire. In this respect, the mountain possesses certain characteristics that are associated with intra-urban green spaces. However, it differs from intra-urban green spaces in that its users’ patterns of frequentation can be categorised as exceptional and episodic, and that access to and specific uses of it strongly depend on owning a car. This article therefore calls for an environmental management strategy that better coordinates emblematic urban natural spaces, such as Sainte-Victoire, with other metropolitan green spaces.

摘要

都市化导致城市自然区域的物理、功能和象征性整合。在这种情况下，大都市山脉本身是否可以被视为巨大的公园，以适应其领土内新的功能规模？为了解决这个问题，我们在法国艾克斯-马赛-普罗旺斯大都会的 Sainte-Victoire 山的当地居民和用户中进行了一项基于问卷的调查。其结果突出了对圣维克多的基于邻近的看法和做法的存在。在这方面，这座山具有与城市内绿地相关的某些特征。然而，它与城市内绿地的不同之处在于，它的用户经常光顾的模式可以归类为特殊的和偶发的，并且它的访问和特定用途在很大程度上取决于拥有汽车。因此，本文呼吁制定一种环境管理策略，以更好地协调圣维克多等标志性城市自然空间与其他大都市绿地。