Ile de Nantes 2000-2010: a method for the meantime?

Abstract

In this critique of the Ile de Nantes, the authors consider design as a means of intervening in the ever-ongoing dynamics of a site and judge change of space instead of state of space. They base their critique on a transformation analysis and offer an interpretation of site and design through micronarratives, from which they develop an evaluation of the plan-guide. As an alternative to the master plan that aims at static 'form' according to an urban model, they argue that the plan-guide, as a journey-form, supports urban 'trans-form-ation' beyond predefined models. After judging the plan-guide as particularly apt to steer the Ile de Nantes' first ten years of transition from old wharf to new city (the meantime), the authors point out some weaknesses that, if overcome, could enable the plan-guide to become a strategy for urban transformation based on an alternative framework.

Keywords

Urban transformation; postindustrial landscape; transformation analysis; plan-guide; journey-form

Published in

Journal of Landscape Architecture
2016, volume: 11, number: 2, pages: 72-83

SLU Authors

• Dahl, Caroline

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Diedrich, Lisa Babette

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2016.1188576

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/80212