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The Great Replacement (Grand Remplacement), also known as replacement theory or great replacement theory, is a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory disseminated by French author Renaud Camus. The original theory states that, with the complicity or cooperation of "replacist" elites, the ethnic French and white European populations at large are being demographically and culturally replaced with non-white peoples—especially from Muslim-majority countries—through mass migration, demographic growth and a drop in the birth rate of white Europeans. Since then, similar claims have been advanced in other national contexts, notably in the United States. Mainstream scholars have dismissed these claims as rooted in a misunderstanding of demographic statistics and premised upon an unscientific, racist worldview. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Great Replacement "has been widely ridiculed for its blatant absurdity." While similar themes have characterized various far-right theories since the late 19th century, the particular term was popularized by Camus in his 2011 book Le Grand Remplacement. The book associates the presence of Muslims in France with danger and destruction of French culture and civilization. Camus and other conspiracy theorists attribute recent demographic changes in Europe to intentional policies advanced by global and liberal elites (the "replacists") from within the Government of France, the European Union, or the United Nations; they describe it as a "genocide by substitution". The conspiracy theory found support in Europe, and has also grown popular among anti-migrant and white nationalist movements from other parts of the West; many of their adherents maintain that "immigrants [are] flocking to predominantly white countries for the precise purpose of rendering the white population a minority within their own land or even causing the extinction of the native population". It aligns with (and is a part of) the larger white genocide conspiracy theory except in the strategic replacement of antisemitic canards with Islamophobia.

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L'observation du bâti montre que ce dernier se renouvelle selon des cycles relativement lents. Sa transformation nécessite souvent des interventions complexes, qui monopolisent d'importantes ressources environnementales et financières. A l'inverse, notre société se caractérise par des évolutions de plus en plus rapides et imprévisibles. Ce double constat encourage l'exploration de nouveaux paradigmes permettant de mieux répondre aux besoins induits par les transitions vers la durabilité. Dans ce contexte, l'architecture modulaire offre une perspective prometteuse, dans la mesure où elle intègre dès les premiers pas du processus de conception les notions d'adaptabilité, de durabilité et de qualité architecturale.

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Que ce soit à l'échelle de l'agglomération, du quartier, du bâtiment ou de ses éléments, le cycle de vie fait partie intégrante des pratiques et des décisions, ne serait-ce que de manière implicite. Si l'observation de notre patrimoine bâti montre que ce dernier se renouvelle selon des cycles relativement lents, notre société se caractérise à l'inverse par des évolutions socioculturelles de plus en plus rapides. Face à ce double constat, les praticiens et les décideurs impliqués dans la transformation de l'environnement construit sont amenés à réfléchir sur les références temporelles les plus pertinentes pour leur action.

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