URBANSCAPE SYNTAX · Measuring Urban Landscape - From Hermeneutic Approach to Sociological / Spatial Analysis
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2004-06-01 → 2005-05-31
- EU contribution
- €38,500
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- IIF
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - URBANSCAPE SYNTAX ("Measuring" Urban Landscape - From hermeneutic approach to sociological / spatial analysis)
The aim of this research is to establish a methodological tool based on a dual, syntactical approach and on a hermeneutic system, taking in consideration the multiplicity of perceptions linking societies to their surrounding urban landscape. Concretely this research associates on a theoretical and practical point of view, investigations made on built environment by the Space Syntax Laboratory of London University College and the works done about landscape and its mutation by the laboratory and post-graduate courses 'Gardens, landscapes, territories' of the School of Architecture of Paris la Villette. By this way, our objective is to formulate an original methodology and primary tools, which could be used and generalised to analyse urban landscape throughout the world, and also to propose some solutions for their sustainable change. Presently, we have redefined through the evolution of history the concept of milieu, the relations of a society to his environment who is a key concept of this research. We have also started a research to link the evolution of the milieu's understanding and the evolution of the urban and architecture theories. At the same time, we have organised a seminar at the end of September 2004 in Japan gathering some of the main specialists to discuss the establishment of methodological tools based on a dual, syntactical approach and on a hermeneutic system, taking in consideration the multiplicity of perceptions.
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Project objective
Due to globalisation and ¡nternationalisation, we can see the links between the built and natural environments, or urban landscape, rapidly mutating in Europe and in many countries around the world. We are confronted by an upheaval of the cultural links, e stablished over the centuries, between societies and surrounding territories. The essential question of the sustainable development of towns is directly related to these mutations. To handle those transformations, and to be able to imagine some comparativ e referential, we need to conceive a precise and rigorous description of these urban landscapes as spatial and physical objects which help to control the social variables of their organisation. For this measuring system to be adequate, we will need to take into consideration the diversity of milieus, the multiplicity of relations between societies and their environments. In fact, depending on those relationships, a double phenomenon is activated. There are the transformations of the environment, and on the other hand there are the societies that are always changing their appreciation and perception of those environments. Also, the aim of this research is to establish a methodological tool based on a dual, syntactical approach and on a hermeneutic system, ta king in consideration the multiplicity of perceptions linking societies to their surrounding urban landscape. The intention of this research is to associate from a theoretical and practical point of view the investigations made into the built environment by the Space Syntax laboratory of London University College with the works done about landscape by the laboratory and post-graduate course \Gardens, Landscapes, Territories\" of the School of Architecture of Paris la Villette. The objective would be to f ormulate an original methodology and primary tools, which could be used for analysis of urban landscape throughout the world, and to propose some solutions for their sustainable change."
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- ECOLE D'ARCHITECTURE DE PARIS-LA-VILLETTE · PARISCoordinatorCity levelFrance
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