Les guides comme corpus de la connaissance urbaine

Abstract

Through this interview, Marcel Roncayolo shows how researches coming from tourism and traveling guidebooks can contribute to studying the building of urban spaces in Europe. He explains the legitimacy this type of source can get in order to write urban history and catch one territory’s complexity. This interview is the opportunity for Marcel Roncayolo to give his own vision of geography and of the theories ruling it since these last years, and to lay stress on his own representation of the city from the notion of route. He reveals as well his opinion on territorial divisions.

Keywords

• cartographie
• découpage territorial
• Élisée Reclus
• géographie urbaine
• guides de voyage
• itinéraire