Abstract : We proposes to examine three key issues of urbanity identified during the creation of an Atlas of public spaces - Saint-Étienne 2007-2012 : livability, mobility and citizenship. Built on the capture of common practices and manners, moods…
The aim of this article is to emphasize the way that the ambiance contributes to the dynamics of the affective relationships with urban places. The ideal-type figures of the evolution of affective relationships with places allow us to bringing to…
Listening to Louis Khan (1996), spaces are sensations, and sensations are ambiances. Working with the case of domestic architecture, this essay tries to understand the construction of ambiance. The aim is to show step by step how space interacts with…
This article deals with observations of neighbors' parties within contemporary residential buildings to Paris. These meeting constitute one extraordinary moment for inhabitants. It's possible for them to derogate from the daily rules and to explore…
This paper proposes an articulation of the two research fields that usually deal with the sensorial and sensible issue and its link with the urban: landscape and ambiance. It presents the characteristics that historically separated the two concepts…
The soundscape representation seems to encircle a real challenge as on the one hand, noise maps enable a very limited reading and management of the urban sound environment quality, and on the other hand, its reduction to the graphic element endangers…
The Napoleonic Empire turned Paris around from an administrative to an industrial city. A new atmosphere created by sulfuric oxide smells took possession of the Right Bank with sulfuric acid and coal, while mercury fumes and chloride, used…
Focused on different sound milieux in India, this paper examines public sites (residential areas, bus stations, Hindu temples, markets, etc.) as spaces for social interactions, cultivating different attention modalities and shaping specific social…
Cities are patchworks of alive locations, temporal hubs of activity where society continuously negotiates itself with nature and the architectural artefact. Places are bundles of memories, movements, changes and repetitions. On the whole, rhythmic…
Walking is a relevant entry point and a good indicator of evolutions in urban society. The walker cannot be reduced to a pedestrian. Could walking become a new value and a collective urban intelligence for mobility and how can public space remain…
The paper argues the case for considering urban density as a social fact from social representations. The study of metropolitan inner suburbs seems to show that social representations contribute significantly to its latest attractiveness. The…
This contribution presents the way we use the concept of ambience and the method of "commented walk" with the intention of comprehending the expectations that two ecological neighborhood users have of the space they live in. We call these…
This paper proposes the artwork as an exploratory tool and means of expression for revealing the nature of a place permitting the enrichment of the project development process in urban design. We represent two sites in Montreal. The first is the old…
The theme of urban atmospheres allows the constitution of a "sensible gaze" in migration studies. In the cities are developed new forms of atmosphere sharings. Migrant populations seem to play an important role in that process and suggest other…
After presenting a (non exhaustive) list of research groups and programs on "ambiances sonores urbaines" and "soundscapes" with which we developped our cognitive approach, we will process to some analysis of the denominations, translations and…
The aim of the study is to investigate the intentionality of ambience into the project, through the use of the photographic instrument. The understanding of the photographic discipline is achieved with a "research - action": a methodology that…
This paper focuses on how electricity influences the environment of Parisian stores of the nineteenth century and its impact on architecture, environments, lifestyles and social culture of that time. We present literary and technical reading that…
As cities are investing in urban (re)development projects, local residents are affected by the changes directly. It is difficult, however, to qualify these experiences. The objective of this paper is to explore the importance of a study that…
Calais, France. A northern, industrial city, destroyed then rebuilt, a port city at the end of the Channel tunnel, a transit city for migrants. But there's more to these pictures than meets the eye. Calais and its inhabitants used to periodically…
The issue of everyday life and familiar spaces in architectural conception of cities and more generally the environment has been part of professionnal reflections, particularly since the end of the Second World War. We propose to establish their…
