Espaces publics et dynamique urbaine

• Research unit: COST
• Project number: C97.0037

Key words (English)

Public spaces; urbanization; metropolisation; users-inhabitants

Research programs (English)

COST-Action A9 - CIVITAS - Transformation of european cities and urban governance

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise: EPF Lausanne Département d'Architect Institut de recherche sur l'environnement construit IREC

Partners and International Organizations (English)

A, B, CH, D, DK, E, F, FIN, N, NL, S, Sl, UK

Abstract (English)

Public space is a fundamental dimension of the urban dynamics: it concerns city planing, architecture, urban engineering, urban society, current behaviors of city dwellers, political decisions. However, seldom social sciences study public spaces. Our research tempts to correct the absence of social sciences publications on this fundamental theme. We principally research on Genevan public spaces. Sociologists, political scientists, geographers, architects and city planners analyse a network of public spaces in their multidimentional complexity (social actors, architecture, political decisions, urban morphology, etc.). Nevertheless, we try to better understand the role of users and inhabitants in this complexity. Our results show their practices and representations and they demonstrate the signification of public spaces in the urban Genevan dynamics.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: COST-DB of the State Secretariat for Education and Research Hallwylstrasse 4 CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland Tel. [phone] Swiss Project-Number: C97.0037