Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles
Laboratoire de recherches
Actes des séminaires
«Etapes de recherches en paysage»
Numéro
4, novembre 2001
Roland Vidal :
«The landscape construction of a territorial identity:
Imaginary and reality in a Brittany seaside resort: Sables-d'Or-les-Pins
(Côtes-d'Armor)»
Abstract
The wide stabilisation campaigns of the French littoral, ending in the XIXth
century, produce new building lands near the beaches just when the seaside
resorts vogue reveals a new utility to them.
Established on malleable grounds favourable to a tabula rasa, and
organised to optimise the relation with the beach, hundreds of these stations
are built on an orthogonal town-planning which tends to be always the same
one.
Conceived as a seaside city-park, Sables-d'Or-les-Pins belongs to
the rare exceptions.
Established with complex relationship toward its territory, it is the work
of an original contractor with the partnership of two landscape-architects
who conceive their plan as a new organisation of the territory.
The assumption that I want to check is that a know-how and a sensitivity
of landscape-architect are able to contribute to the durable construction
of a territorial identity.
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Translated by Lena Bouzemberg.