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Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	The Projet Urbain of Euralille : urban scale models and the public
Authors:	Zaugg, Maxime
et. al:	No
Conference details:	‘Histories of Urban Design: Global Trajectories and Local Realities’ Conference, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 15-17 November 2021
Issue Date:	Nov-2021
Language:	English
Subjects:	Städtebau
Subject (DDC):	711: Area planning
Abstract:	The emergence of participatory practices in urban design in France during the 1960s resulted in new approaches to involve citizens in urban development projects. Derived from these new participative urban strategies, the concept of the French Projet Urbain offered an alternative to top-down master-planning by favouring more punctual and strategic urban design interventions. The strong cooperative character of this type of urban development heavily influenced contemporary planning and design methods. As a result, the planner’s role evolved from a designer focused predominantly on plans and concepts to an actor performing at the centre of a heteronomous network of requirements and participants, including politicians, investors, sociologists, philosophers, local citizens, etc. Thus, physical urban scale models became important tools to mediate and communicate between this vast set of actors and requirements. Urban scale models also clearly showed how the project was embedded in the existing urban fabric, often highly charged – both politically and emotionally, including various infrastructures, topographical differences, complex situations of land ownership and ambitious programmes. Urban scale models were thus very effective tools to place these different constraints in conversation with each other and were capable of negotiating the long-time period of many Projets Urbains. This paper aims to investigate how the mediating characteristics of urban scale models allowed for negotiation during the complex processes of Projets Urbains. The example of Euralille (F), realized between 1986 and 1991, implying a diversity of actors and requirements, will therefore be explored as a case study. The multiple urban scale models used for Euralille varied significantly in formal composition, materiality, and scale, depending on the groups of people they sought to reach/unite, the ideas they sought to convey, and the political aims they set out to achieve and thus offer the ideal lens to explore the urban concept of the French Projet Urbain.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/27014
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Urban Landscape (IUL)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen

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