La Ville conçue et dressée avec le jardin dans un milieu urbain: le développement du concept

ENThis issue has emerged from the presentation in the Working Week 2017 (79th) of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) titled “Surveying the world of tomorrow - from digitalisation to augmented reality” on May 29 - June 2, 2017, Helsinki, Finland. As a geographical and urban space, the garden or the park can be qualified by its form, treatment of its boundary or its legal, cadastral and social situation. This time we will pay more attention to aesthetic and urban planning categories. From a methodological standpoint, our research is based on an analysis of the work of urban planners and landscape architects Edouard André (1840-1911), Josef Stübben (1845-1936), Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), Eugène Hénard (1849-1923), Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (1861-1930), René André (1867-1942), Marcel Zaborski (1884-1980), Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996), and also other urban planners. Our hypothesis is that the contemporary period represents a certain continuity of the conceptions of the garden developed in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century. The garden, the public park is an instrument designed to bring the inhabitants (physically and symbolically, spiritually) closer to the materiality of the landscape and nature. We will be particularly interested in following the evolution of the design of the garden or urban park in urban planning from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.