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The Plural in the Singular, Cities and Disciplinary Batallions? — Interdisciplinary Approaches Facing Nowadays Environmental Challenges



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Christian Sallenave

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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2012.12.005

Bordeaux National Higher School of Architecture and Landscape Design, Talence 33400, France

Towns’ and cities’ stories show their multidisciplinary richness and their complexity between professional skills and ways of life and residence of inhabitants by the analysis of the towns’ changes. Through two protocols of research, during ten years from 2003 to 2012 and so on, of metropolitan changes in Bordeaux and travels in French and European cities, Christian Sallenave shows that: When everyone can write, tell and recognize his own story of town’s changes, the cities know the best conditions for their sustainable development; Neither particular, nor general, but both in their specific dialectic; Neither panoptical and sovereign disciplines nor judgmental dopes, but both in their coming and goings and their “patriotic” property and register. The towns’ stories are always written and marked in the same time in plural and singular, of arts, sciences and knowledge and pragmatic ways of life and residence.

Sustainable development, judgmental dopes, panoptical and sovereign disciplines, towns’ stories, plural and singular arts, sciences, professional skills and pragmatic ways of life and residence.