Etienne Menguy – 7th semester – 16 March 2018
Field’s shopping and entertainment centre which is the largest one of Scandinavia but which was not planned as we will see.
8.2. Île de Nantes The great “île de Nantes” was a boon in a precarious situation. A favourable environment to intense development but to build on ruins. "The closure of construction sites is an injury for Nantes, the fate of the city is played here." (Jean Mar Ayraut - Deputy Mayor of Nantes, 2008) When the guide plan was unveiled, this one attached itself to create a global transformation that can accommodate a large diversity of usages and populations respecting the present stability of the environment. Reconfiguring its space and exploiting its historic heritage, Nantes posed the founding frames of its urban politic. At the centre of guide plan, was the Nantes’s river, the “Loire” which is the longest river in France. During years Nantes has been called the west Venice because of the numerous rivers that were crossing the city. After they filled the spaces between the islands to create the one we know today, they kept the close relationship that has created between Nantes and the water and it was the aim of the architects and urban planners to keep longer this relationship even if the boat industries had sunk. Recreate the water city. Seven districts were existent in the neighbourhood. The challenge was to give back their identities to those districts, take it into account during the thinking phases. They decided then to keep their implantation for the future urban plan.
Pointe ouest (West point) Quartier de la création (Creation district) République les ponts (Republic of bridges) Mangin
Fonderies Beaulieu Pointe est (East point)
Figure 13: Districts map of the Island. Source: Original creation
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