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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Les fonctions de l'alignement dans l'organisme urbain
Contributor:
Harouel, Jean-Louis
imprint:
PERSEE Program, 1977
Published in:Dix-huitième Siècle
Language:
French
DOI:
10.3406/dhs.1977.1120
ISSN:
0070-6760
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Jean-Louis Harouel : Street alignment and the urban organism. </jats:p>
<jats:p>The alignment of streets, establishing legal frontiers between the public thoroughfare and the bordering properties, was extended to the French towns by the edict of December 1607. But its full impact was not felt until the 18th Century, in particular among the authorities responsible for urban planning. They made a more or less conscious association between the image of the circulation of the blood in an animal organism and the circulation of people and objects in the streets of a town. In the context of this organic conception of urban problems, alignment, which permitted the widening and régularisation of the streets, or circulatory channels, necessarily appeared as one of the primordial elements of the health of the urban organism.</jats:p>