La densification des banlieues pavillonnaires à Paris et à Toronto au service de stratégies municipales de centralité différenciées

The purpose of the article is to analyze the mechanisms, objectives and challenges of densification policies in suburban areas in the light of urban political theories concerning post-suburbs. The central hypothesis of this paper is that there is a link between the strategy of centrality of a municipality and the privileged type of residential densification. The detailed analysis of the processes and policies studied in four suburban municipalities of the Paris-City region in France and of the Toronto-City region in Canada shows that the densification policies being put in place, whose forms characterize a given post-suburban evolution, are explicitly articulated to a search for a relative centrality in the urban region.