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- Title
Crear y conjurar la crisis de la ciudad. Diseño urbano e imagen de la ciudad en Montpellier, Francia.
- Authors
Hernández-Pulgarín, Gregorio
- Abstract
This article analyses the role of urban design in the transformation of the city of Montpellier, France. It is based on the study of a period of crisis in the city experienced until the early 1980s and the way in which, through two urban planning operations with exceptional architectural and urban design, the city averted the crisis responding to the economic imperatives of its context of inter-urban competition through the creation of an attractive and innovative image of the city, The analysis was based on the use of qualitative methods such as documentary review of urban planning operations, interviews with city planners and semiotic analysis of urban space. The article allows to understand the way in which the notions of "crisis" and "rebirth" of the city reveal conceptions of time and space provided by city planners, which are determinant in their decision-making and the form and structure adopted by European cities to this day.
- Publication
Kepes, 2018, Vol 15, Issue 18, p249
- ISSN
1794-7111
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17151/kepes.2018.15.18.10