The City in Use: Claire Shorter, Grand Prix for Urban Planning 2024
Parentheses| N° d'inventaire | 31887 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 192 p., numerous color and B/W figures, paperback. |
| Publication | 2024, Paris |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782863644249 |
Architect and urban planner Claire Schorter, winner of the 2024 Grand Prix de l'urbanisme, advocates an "art of layouts" and is committed to a complex city, whose historical depth allows for the development of its sensitive and human dimension. The name of the agency she chairs, LAQ, L'Amour des Quartiers, sets the tone. Her goal is to use the weakening dependence of metropolises to rethink systems of reciprocity with their peripheral vital territories. In this regard, the restoration and preservation of nourishing soils, carriers of biodiversity, are at the heart of her approach to the city. A practice full of nuances, demands and attention to detail that invites us to move away from sectoral logic and to rethink approaches, both public and private, to better respond to climate issues. This book explores the three main axes of her approach: a precise art of urban composition based on original methods; the priority given to uses, which leads to designing a peaceful city, whose comfort of public and private spaces results from a careful articulation between urban form and architecture; the ecological concern for soils, biodiversity and the necessary repair of territories. In contrast, the two nominees, Isabelle Baraud-Serfaty, urban economics consultant, and Christine Leconte, director of the Ensa Paris-Belleville and former president of the National Order of Architects, demonstrate the same convergence of this political awareness. The first through her ability to rethink the economic approach to urban issues, the second for her commitment to serving an architecture conceived as a vector of transformation of our territories.
Architect and urban planner Claire Schorter, winner of the 2024 Grand Prix de l'urbanisme, advocates an "art of layouts" and is committed to a complex city, whose historical depth allows for the development of its sensitive and human dimension. The name of the agency she chairs, LAQ, L'Amour des Quartiers, sets the tone. Her goal is to use the weakening dependence of metropolises to rethink systems of reciprocity with their peripheral vital territories. In this regard, the restoration and preservation of nourishing soils, carriers of biodiversity, are at the heart of her approach to the city. A practice full of nuances, demands and attention to detail that invites us to move away from sectoral logic and to rethink approaches, both public and private, to better respond to climate issues. This book explores the three main axes of her approach: a precise art of urban composition based on original methods; the priority given to uses, which leads to designing a peaceful city, whose comfort of public and private spaces results from a careful articulation between urban form and architecture; the ecological concern for soils, biodiversity and the necessary repair of territories. In contrast, the two nominees, Isabelle Baraud-Serfaty, urban economics consultant, and Christine Leconte, director of the Ensa Paris-Belleville and former president of the National Order of Architects, demonstrate the same convergence of this political awareness. The first through her ability to rethink the economic approach to urban issues, the second for her commitment to serving an architecture conceived as a vector of transformation of our territories.