Sandra Mallet | 07.02.2020
The idea of an advanced social acceleration dominates in contemporary SHS writings. However, the links between this acceleration and the modalities of urban space production are still poorly explored. This article is based on the assumption that the acceleration of societies is linked to several aspects of urban production. Two elements are developed in this text. On the one hand, the evolution of social rhythms leads the actors of the urban fabric to consider the question of urban rhythms. [...]
Alexandre Rigal | 09.09.2014
This article aims at understanding how the urban dweller experiments the heterogeneity that emerges from the density and diversity of urban space. Two classical propositions are presented : Simmel’s figure of the blasé and the Situationnists’ figure of the dérive. However, both figures must be nuanced : the first neutralizes too many differences whereas the second intensifies them too much. Starting from these repelling figures, we discover the figure of the remix, which links the capacity to experiment differences [...]
Valérie Kociemba | 10.02.2014
Fiction films and television series shot in the Bordeaux area are the corpus of study of this article. Their study provides a crossing of the urban area rooted in history. The tradition of shooting in Bordeaux is a player in the local economic dynamics. Through fiction, the geographer observes a recomposition of urban transects which highlights the identity elements of the city. These elements contribute to give the town its heritage and its roots in history, its bourgeois character [...]
Alexandre Rigal | 12.11.2013
Urban space is sometimes said to be irrepresentable. However, many representations and images make it comprehensible. These forms and images are spreading in our daily lives and in scientific practices through various technological tools. Trying to understand these fragmentary or reductive and totalizing representations challenges the definition of urban space. Beyond traditional representations and metaphors that deny the plurality of urban actors and objects, this article offers an intuitive survey of the representation of urban cities, of urban space [...]
