16 juillet 2018
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Emmanuel Grélois, « D’Augustonemetum à Clermont-Ferrand : étude morphologique », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.7635
The urban area of Clermont-Ferrand today is the product of the incomplete fusion of four nuclei: the city of Clermont, the boroughs of St. Alyre Abbey, Chamalières within the Roman suburbium, and lastly the new medieval town of Montferrand. The 13th century wall encircling the existing built sites left several earlier Church complexes and later housing developments outside. The unoccupied spaces were settled first by Counter-Reformation convents, then by modern industrial developments that prevented the development of densely populated neighbourhoods. As a result, the fusion of the two towns, Clermont and Montferrand, first planned in the 16th century, has never been achieved, and the centre of gravity of the Auvergne capital has moved gradually East over the last two thousand years.