Coping with urban sprawl : toward a sustainable peri-urbanization, giving way to residential path

Coping with urban sprawl : toward a sustainable peri-urbanization, giving way to residential path

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

Periurbanization

sustainable development

densification

Supporting peri-urbanisation<br />draws more inspiration from midwifery than Pygmalion. It<br />is important to encourage connectivity, preserve rough<br />edges (street vendors, waste land, mixed roads), guide shape<br />(by differential density), produce multiple drafts of transformable<br />walkways in order to fix morphologically afterwards<br />those adopted by the residents (Mancebo, 2003).<br />There is of course a bias in this approach: the idea that<br />towns/cities evolve towards their own shape, which it is<br />pointless trying to thwart.

Mancebo, François

Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine

ISSN:0180-930-X

2008-10

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00363315

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/36/33/15/PDF/annales.English.pdf