Le nouveau récit du paysage

• Main Authors: Christophe Mager, Laurent Matthey
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Urban Research 2013-11-01
• Series: Articulo: Journal of Urban Research
• Subjects: landscape; urbanism; landscape sensitivity; methodological devices; participatory tools; landscape fragments
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/articulo/2319

The death of landscape has been heralded some time ago; and yet, for at least the past twenty years, we have witnessed its significant return in planning practice. Indeed, there is a consensus aiming to turn landscape into a pertinent object of the urban project; landscape is a crucial element both in that it can guarantee the coherence of a project, framing it within the larger planning scale (green infrastructure, blue infrastructure…) and in that it mediates between distinct urban institutions or structures (nature, organisation, technical networks, etc.). Just as much an analysis method than a mediation and an argumentation modality or, finally, an execution modality of the urban project, the landscape aims to extension. But where is the landscape when the landscape is everywhere? Are not the site, the place, the ambience, the atmosphere, the environment often what we are speaking about when we speak about landscape? It is exactly this inflation of landscape that we wished to question according to three research axes: the sensitive configurations, the methodological devices, the urban planning tools.