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    The Evolving European City - Paris: Plaine Saint-Denis
    The Evolving European City - Paris: Plaine Saint-Denis
    The Evolving European City - Paris: Plaine Saint-Denis
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    The Evolving European City - Paris: Plaine Saint-Denis

    By Giuseppe Marinoni and Giovanni Chiaramonte

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    In 'The Evolving European City', renowned urban planner and architect Giuseppe Marinoni and eminent photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte assemble a breathtaking presentation of cities that have undergone profound change in order to combat congestion, pollution, and the unsightliness of industrial wastelands. Marinoni conveys a profound belief that unified urban plans under the direction of one creative vision can bring an enhanced quality of life to city dwellers, provide them with the means to move easily to and from home, work, and at the same time ensure environmental sustainability. Chiaramonte, through his exquisite photographs of sites in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom, offers readers visual evidence of the architectural and infrastructure accomplishments of European urban projects over the last two decades. Beautifully presented in eye-opening detail, The Evolving European City is a timely representation of environmental sustainability and social progress in the modern age.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSMOwnPublishing
    Release dateJul 20, 2024
    ISBN9788899165628
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      The Evolving European City - Paris - Giuseppe Marinoni

      Paris

      Plaine Saint-Denis

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      Holding to landscape principles, an ambitious urban project has regenerated the large territory north of Paris that stretches over seven hundred hectares between the Boulevard périphérique and the Cathedral of Saint-Denis: the Plaine Saint-Denis. The metropolitan conurbation that has risen here has seen a chaotic stratification of functions and infrastructures over the years. The nineteenth century located chemical and manufacturing industries here due to the presence of rail yards and the navigable canal of Saint-Denis. In the twentieth century, this canal was the primary infrastructure for the greatly trafficked connection between the north of France and the capital. Ultimately, in the 1960s, the large residential complexes would densify the entire zone of towns between Paris and the new cities, further bringing congestion to the already immense Parisian suburbs.

      Plaine Saint-Denis is a broad-ranging project that fractures the borders between city and infrastructure, city and landscape, and urban and landscape projects. With the conventional rules of urban construction in disorder, the experiments conducted here completely seal the old divisions. The landscape/city, man-made/natural dichotomy that still informs heroic modernism dissolve into

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