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The Metropolis as Integral Substance
Author(s) -
l'AUC Architects,
Urbanists,
Caroline Poulin,
Djamel Klouche
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1194
Subject(s) - urbanism , metropolitan area , sociology , regional science , history , archaeology , architecture
l'AUC Architects and Urbanists (François Decoster, Caroline Poulin and Djamel Klouche) advocate an approach to typological urbanism that they refer to as ‘urbanism of substance’. Here they describe three projects for Paris in which they have developed this strategy for maximising the intensity between local, metropolitan and global conditions.