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Epistemological fields of urban intervention: urban reform, surveys and historic centres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

par Van Acker, Wouter ;Uyttenhove, Pieter
Editeur scientifique De Munck, Bert;Lachmund, Jens
Référence Politics of urban knowledge. Historical perspectives on the shaping and governing of cities, Routledge, New York/ London, page (56-75)
Publication Publié, 2023

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When sciences start to take the city as their object of study, experimentation and spatial interventions respond to the general interest of its population, and the city needs to legitimise these actions. This is the moment when Urbanism developed as a discipline incorporating three main epistemological fields: reform as the development of new ways of living together; surveys as the comprehension of the existing urban conditions, problems and needs; and conservation as the care for the city’s material memory. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, policies of urban modernisation largely rely on these epistemologies. This chapter in the urban history of science attempts to delineate these emergent fields as they are projected onto and interwoven with the city’s transformation, by interconnecting the history of urbanism and planning, the history of reformism and the history of heritage, monuments, and landscapes