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Winter sports and mountaineering resorts have been instrumental in the revival of the mountain image, the opening-up of which to tourism had increased its popularity. Urban development has been summoned to produce functional accommodation and leisure sports facilities, not much to highlight the scenery and symbolism valorising the identity, the renown and the attraction of the mountain and its civilisation. The fordist and mimetic model of production of the 380 French resorts has produced from 1960 onwards series of contempory new towns, like suburbs created ex nihilo which have since spread out at high altitude in urbanised clumps. Today, these high-altitude island lumps are aging and need requalifying. One of the major stakes of sustainable planning in mountain regions is the improving of these resorts favouring the restructuring of existing buildings and their integration in the environment. How to adapt the urban landscapes of the ski resorts to their mountain environment? Which stakes poses their temporal and space anchoring?