Architecture and daily life: the revitalization of a French neighborhood.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1985

Abstract

Focuses on the urban renewal process in the Alma-Gare district of the northern French industrial city of Roubaix, which has been notable for the direct participation of the pre-existing community in the redevelopment process. The background of the physical and social fabric, renewal and community organization is first sketched, followed by a full discussion of the planning and architectural design process. Finally, illustrates the importance placed upon the social meaning of space in the redevelopment process by comparing Alma-Gare's experience with Brinkman's perimeter housing block in Spangen (Rotterdam) and Charles Fourier's utopian phalanstery proposal.-R.House

Identifier

0022230156 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Places

First Page

7

Last Page

20

Issue

1

Volume

2

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