6-625: Communauté urbaine Limoges Métropole is the communauté urbaine , an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Limoges . It is located in the Haute-Vienne department , in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , southwestern France . It was created in November 2002 as the Communauté d'agglomération Limoges Métropole , which was transformed into a communauté urbaine on 1 January 2019. Its area
12-410: A métropole. Some communautés urbaines are relatively small; smaller than many communautés d'agglomération . The communautés urbaines are each administered by a council called a "conseil communautaire" (community council), composed of a proportional representation of members of municipal councils of member towns. The council is headed by an executive composed of a president and vice-presidents elected by
18-559: Is 520.6 km. Its population was 207,385 in 2018, of which 131,479 in Limoges proper. The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 20 communes: This Haute-Vienne geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 45°50′N 1°16′E / 45.83°N 1.26°E / 45.83; 1.26 Communaut%C3%A9 urbaine Communauté urbaine ( French pronunciation: [kɔmynote yʁbɛn] ; French for "urban community")
24-666: Is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the Metropolis (French: métropole ). A communauté urbaine is composed of a city ( commune ) and its independent suburbs (independent communes). The first communautés urbaines were created by the French Parliament on 31 December 1966. Originally there were only four, found in the metropolitan areas of Bordeaux , Lille , Lyon and Strasbourg . Later, others were created in other metropolitan areas. The purpose of
30-415: The case in either a communauté d'agglomération or communauté de communes , communes cannot leave a communauté urbaine freely. As of April 2018, there are 11 communautés urbaines in France (all in metropolitan France ), with a combined population of 2.43 million inhabitants (as of 2015, in 2018 limits). All of the urban areas in France with more than half a million inhabitants are a communauté urbaine or
36-546: The communautés urbaines was to achieve cooperation and joint administration between large cities and their independent suburbs. This step often followed failed attempts to merge the communes within a metropolitan area. The status of the communauté urbaine was modified by the Chevènement Law of 1999. Since the creation of the métropoles in 2011, several former communautés urbaines have become métropoles, for instance Nice , Strasbourg , Marseille , Nancy and Dijon . Unlike
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