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Titre Connaître et penser la ville : des formes aux affects et aux émotions, explorer ce qu'il nous reste à trouver. Manifeste pour une géographie sensible autant que rigoureuse
Auteur Jean-Bernard RACINE, Béatrice BOCHET
Mir@bel Revue Géocarrefour
Numéro volume 77, no 2, 2002
Page 117-132
Résumé anglais ABSTRACT With the aim of reflecting on the future of the city idea within the process that leads to generalised urbanisation which has become common to our societies, the authors ask themselves how, in human geography, can a long forgotten affective and emotional frame of reference contribute to the analysis of the dynamics of urban resources. Its use seems to have become fashionable, to certainly open new horizons that enable the exploration of all that makes up our daily urban life, in our cities and our "à la carte" territories, be it a question of our relation to spatial shapes or to the social problems that occur there, or of course be it also the way we identify to "place-communities" which are not necessarily our usual neighbourhoods. Or be řt a question of making the populations that are involved accept "urban projects", that authors would rather be able to call "city projects". However, this mobilisation of affects and emotions, and furthermore, the reference frame of the "love of places" is not without problems. It is useful to distinguish their nature. These however, can only be controlled as long as one is prepared to put into practice, in a rather harsh way, even in a conceptual manner, what some might call very "soft" sciences.
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