Une formation en urbanisme sans institut, and so what ? Réflexion à partir d’un éternel horizon nantais

Abstract

Nantes, an experimental laboratory for urban fabric in France? However, there is no urban planning institution, but a master’s degree, which is co-handled by academic actors and practitioners from the university and the school of architecture. Often contemplated, the institution remains an ever-lasting horizon that is never granted a concrete form. Anomaly or Nantes’ game (jeu à la nantaise)? That is the question asked by two professors-researchers, actors in urban planning training themselves. They tell a singular story, which thus addresses the specific tensions of urban planning training and invites us – as it is a horizon – to ask ourselves what could be an ideal urban planning institution.

Keywords

• project
• urban institute
• learning program
• interdisciplinarity