Les paysages urbains en mal d’émotions

Abstract

Many contemporary urban planning professionals value affects and ideal urban dimensions. The desire for a more sensitive city symbolizes the need for spaces to be lived in, tried, contemplated and proven in the context of accelerated metropolisation. Are we witnessing a turning point in urban design ? Nothing could be less sure. The consideration of representations, sensation, feeling, and emotion associated with specific urban areas still remains marginal in urban projects. To understand the feeling of a place as knowledge, without oversimplification or exploitation, we need to definite the terms and consider the emotional relationships of places, and their spatial translations, without misrepresentation. The results of the research-action “L’Enjeu du paysage commun” and “Fabrique Active du paysage” question the methodology to consider feelings, personal experience and perception and the potential descriptors of the urban sensitive world. The system of the urban affects knowledge challenge today’s urban intervention. But there is a need to reconnect urban places and landscapes with emotion and urban planning.

Keywords

• Landscape
• City
• Urban landscape
• Emotions
• Feeling