What Do Closed Mountain Roads Tell Us About Territories? A Critical Analysis of Abandonment, Re-Appropriation and Valorisation in the Vercors (19th-21st Century)
In the Alps, mountain roads offer clear examples of the 19th-century policy of modernising road networks. In the middle of the 1800s, the Vercors mountain range in the French departments of Isère and Drôme was criss-crossed by a network of carriageable roads. Most of these roads were built to transp...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut de Géographie Alpine
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| Series: | Revue de Géographie Alpine |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/5567 |