Claude Nicolas Ledoux, visionary architecture and social utopia

Claude Nicolas Ledoux, visionary architecture and social utopia

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Ledoux

Arc-et-Senans

architecture

utopia

Claude Nicolas Ledoux is not only the famous French utopian architect from the 18th century. He had also some very modern ideas about industrial production, urban planning, and "territorial intelligence". The project of the royal salt works (1775-79) was an opportunity to apply several very innovating ideas about economical organisation and social living. After the French Revolution, Ledoux planned an "ideal city" which continues to fascinate by its revolutionary vision of the future.

Gruson, Luc

International Conference of Territorial Intelligence, Besançon 2008. Papers on Tools and methods of Territorial Intelligence

International Conference of Territorial Intelligence

2009

ENG

conference proceeding

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00767259

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/76/72/59/PDF/Gruson._Claude_Nicolas_Ledoux.pdf

Besançon

France