Dublin Core
Titre
Fabrique urbaine : a new concept in urban history and morphology
Sujet
[SHS:HISPHILSO] Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences
[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management
[SDE:ES] Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society
[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography
urban form
French towns
disciplinary links
Description
The concept of fabrique urbaine can be described as a socio-spatial process of development of ordinary towns and cities. Practices and representations of the residents and other users of urban areas must be first analysed as a series of historical moments, called social temporalities. Then the spatial structure of the town, especially its plots, the aggregation of plots into street blocks, and the street system can be precisely described, but with its own temporalities, and only as the final result of the history of the inhabitants. The link between the social history and the urban morphology can not be direct : the social temporalities are not the conscious steps of the process of the development of the urban fabric. Nevertheless, there is a dialectical interaction between these two orders of facts. This method of articulating the historical development of urban areas is illustrated by studies of French cities.
Créateur
Noizet, Hélène
Source
Urban Morphology
Date
2009
Langue
ENG
Type
article in peer-reviewed journal
Identifiant
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00419700
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/41/97/00/PDF/Noizet_UrbanMorphology.pdf