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In the first sentence of her book,The lonely city, British writer Olivia Laing (2016, p 3) asks the reader to imagine him- or herself standing at the window at night, when dark and illuminated windows compose the urban landscape. ‘Inside’, she writes, ‘str ...
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Today, institutionalised discourses surrounding heritage have social and physical impacts, with the potential to lead to a break between inhabitants' collective memory of popular neighbourhoods, and their transforming territories. In this context, the acti ...
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Urban sprawl is nowadays a pervasive topic that is subject of a contentious debate among planners and researchers, who still fail to reach consensual solutions. This paper reviews controversies of the sprawl debate and argues that they owe to a failure of ...
Achevée en 1957, la Nouvelle buvette de la Source Cachat à Évian-les-Bains est à classer parmi les icônes du XXe siècle. Le bâtiment est issu de la collaboration fructueuse entre un architecte expérimenté, Maurice Novarina, un « constructeur génial », Jean ...
Narratives employed when writing about a place and building a place have a central theme in common: both weave between the human, personal and emotional experience of place and the physical, spatial and atmospheric place – a dialogue between the inner and ...