Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de Nantes
Stone quarries are a fundamental feature of cities, firstly because they provided them with building materials, secondly, because they represent a step of the city growth, marking the limit of the inhabited area when quarried, thirdly because they are a challenge to urban planning when disused. Issu...
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| description | Stone quarries are a fundamental feature of cities, firstly because they provided them with building materials, secondly, because they represent a step of the city growth, marking the limit of the inhabited area when quarried, thirdly because they are a challenge to urban planning when disused. Issue of the disused quarries should be an argument for urban citizens to understand their environment: the history of the city growth, the heritage linked to the quarries (building stones, quarry tools and technics), especially in cities like Paris or Nantes where the perception of the landscape is so much dominated by the omnipresence of a river (Seine, Loire), that the relief itself is not taken into account. Nevertheless, knowledge of the topography and geology of the area allows to understand it: the flat landscape of southern Paris undermined by underground limestone quarries; Montmartre and Belleville hills, whose slopes were dug out for gypsum, in northern Paris; the mica schist and granite quarries, running mostly along valley slopes in Nantes. But it is difficult to conciliate such a scientific popularization, based on a past industrial memory that urban planners wish it were forgotten, with prestige urban gardens created in order to promote the city: Paris in the past (Buttes-Chaumont), Nantes nowadays (Chantenay quarry). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68c56adc51404e1891365ecbbdbb0f592024-02-13T13:23:51ZengPhysio-GéoPhysio-Géo1958-573X1312410.4000/physio-geo.7198Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de NantesBruno ComentaleStone quarries are a fundamental feature of cities, firstly because they provided them with building materials, secondly, because they represent a step of the city growth, marking the limit of the inhabited area when quarried, thirdly because they are a challenge to urban planning when disused. Issue of the disused quarries should be an argument for urban citizens to understand their environment: the history of the city growth, the heritage linked to the quarries (building stones, quarry tools and technics), especially in cities like Paris or Nantes where the perception of the landscape is so much dominated by the omnipresence of a river (Seine, Loire), that the relief itself is not taken into account. Nevertheless, knowledge of the topography and geology of the area allows to understand it: the flat landscape of southern Paris undermined by underground limestone quarries; Montmartre and Belleville hills, whose slopes were dug out for gypsum, in northern Paris; the mica schist and granite quarries, running mostly along valley slopes in Nantes. But it is difficult to conciliate such a scientific popularization, based on a past industrial memory that urban planners wish it were forgotten, with prestige urban gardens created in order to promote the city: Paris in the past (Buttes-Chaumont), Nantes nowadays (Chantenay quarry).https://journals.openedition.org/physio-geo/7198geomorphologyquarriesgeoheritageurban landscape |
| spellingShingle | Bruno Comentale Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de Nantes Physio-Géo geomorphology quarries geoheritage urban landscape |
| title | Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de Nantes |
| title_full | Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de Nantes |
| title_fullStr | Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de Nantes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de Nantes |
| title_short | Les anciennes carrières de pierre en ville, un élément du géopatrimoine : exemples de Paris et de Nantes |
| title_sort | les anciennes carrieres de pierre en ville un element du geopatrimoine exemples de paris et de nantes |
| topic | geomorphology quarries geoheritage urban landscape |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/physio-geo/7198 |
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