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Encyclopedia > Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse
Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Toulouse
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(Urban Community logo)
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Founded January 1, 2001
President Philippe Douste-Blazy
(UMP) (since 2001)
Communes 25
Area 366.43 km²
Population
2004 estimate

1999 census


651,209
(65.5% in the city of Toulouse)
583,229
(66.9% in the city of Toulouse)
Density 1,592/km² (1999)
Budget 1 196 million euros (2004)
(US $260 million)

1 After compensatory transfer of local tax euros to the communes of the Community of Agglomeration. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface/font, or arranged in a particular, but legible, way. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... Philippe Douste-Blazy (b. ... The Union for a Popular Movement, initially named the Union for a Presidential Majority, and in both cases also known by its French acronym UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire and Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle, respectively) is a French right-wing, conservative political party. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) (Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a... Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ... Budget generally refers to a list of all planned expenses and revenues. ...

The Toulouse Metropolitain Area Council (French: Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Toulouse), also simply known as Grand Toulouse (i.e. "Greater Toulouse"), is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Toulouse (France) and some of its suburbs. It succeeds a previous District which had been created in 1992 with less powers than the current Community of Agglomeration. A communauté dagglomération is a metropolitan governement structure in France, created by the Loi Chevénement in 1999. ... The commune is an administrative division of France. ... The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) (Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a...


Due to local political feuds, the Toulouse Metropolitain Area Council only hosts 61% of the population of the metropolitan area (see infobox at Toulouse article for the metropolitan area) , the other independent communes of the metropolitan area having refused to join in, notably Muret and the technopolis of Labège-Innopole. The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) (Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a... The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Technopolis is a term coined from the word technology and the suffix -polis, which means city in Greek. ...


Consequently, the other parts of the metropolitan area have formed different intercommunal structures, such as:

  • Community of Agglomeration of the Muret Area (Communauté d'agglomération du Muretain): 59,348 inhabitants
  • Community of Agglomeration of the Sicoval (Communauté d'agglomération du Sicoval): 57,848 inhabitants, with Labège-Innopole in it
  • Community of Communes from Save au Touch (Communauté de communes de la Save au Touch): 29,284 inhabitants
  • etc.

External link

  • Greater Toulouse website

  Results from FactBites:
 
Toulouse - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (2508 words)
The population of the city proper (French: commune) was 390,350 (as of the 1999 census), with 964,797 inhabitants in the metropolitan area (French: aire urbaine) (as of 1999 census).
As of February 2004 estimate, the total population of the Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse was 651,209 inhabitants, 65.5% of whom live in the city of Toulouse.
Toulouse is thus recovering step by step its former rank as a major European metropolis, but it faces increasing challenges: how to accommodate such a rapid growth, how to upgrade transport and develop housing and infrastructures, in short how to reinvent the city in the 21st century.
BIGpedia - Commune in France - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (4695 words)
However, the size of a commune still matters in two domains: French law determines the size of the municipal council according to the population of the commune; and the size of the population also determines which voting process is used for the election of the municipal council.
Communities of Communes are given the least amount of money per inhabitants, whereas Urban Communities are given the most amount of money per inhabitant, thus pushing the communes to form more integrated communities where they have less powers and which they would have been loath to form if it were not for government money.
The commune of the French Republic furthest away from Paris is the commune of Île-des-Pins (1,671 inhabitants) in New Caledonia: 16,841 km.
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