Le péage urbain de Tromsø, l’urbanisme durable à l’épreuve de la périphéricité arctique

• Published in: Cybergeo
• Main Author: Grégoire Tortosa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; French; Italian; Portuguese
• Published: Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités 2023
• Subjects: Norway; Tromsø; sustainable urban mobility; sustainable urban planning; core-periphery model; Geography (General); G1-922; Arctic; Lever; Péage; Arctique*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/cybergeo.40516; https://doaj.org/article/b55bf71b9d304e29a7b030e57c44d818

This article examines the process of setting up the Tromsø city toll, whose very late implementation (2021) raises questions in a country that has made environmental exemplarity a lever for global integration. The article offers a geo-historic reading of this process from a center/periphery prism, discussing the reluctancy of local residents to sustainable land-use planning and their singular bond to car transport. At a time when, elsewhere in Europe, the reconfiguring of centre/periphery relationships is marked by the empowerment of local states in the face of central state supervision, the establishment of the Tromsø city toll is distinctive in that it maintains a strong duality between the southern centrality and its northern periphery. The establishment of the city toll symbolizes the end of the municipality’s State-granted special regime, and reflects Tromsø’s changing status, from the country’s Northern periphery to the arctic projection of Oslo.