Morphological Regionalisation of French Cities -A methodology for street-based analysis of urban form
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14 septembre 2023
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Alessandro Araldi et al., « Morphological Regionalisation of French Cities -A methodology for street-based analysis of urban form », HAL-SHS : géographie, ID : 10670/1.91xt26
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Cities are the overlay of morpho-functional patterns evolving in time and space. When exploring urban space, city users are exposed to a diversity of cityscapes alternating vernacular centres, modernist developments, sprawling suburbia and very specific exurbs. The diverse forms of the urban fabric influence the functioning of cities, human perception, practices and uses, and pose different challenges for the urban technological and environmental transitions. This diversity must be recognized and accounted for to understand the city and to conceive place-specific interventions on it. A challenge for urban geographers is thus to identify the contemporary morphotypes, i.e. specific patterns of the urban fabric, organising buildings, streets, plots and site features, that are recurrent within today's cities, and to regionalize vast metropolitan areas on the basis of these morphotypes.