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Think LARGE
Nowadays half of the medium-size cities of France are experiencing an identity crisis with social and economical growing weaknesses. This worrying situation is directly questioning their own future, will they rebound or slowly disappear?
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Betting on a rebound, I introduce 'LARGE', a landscape-based design methodology to generate large-scale, coherent, circular and socially rooted identities for these cities. I acted in Vierzon - a city I knew quite well already- and its valley landscape, changing its paths from deprecation to a new fascination.
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From a large scale concept ...
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... transforming the landscape ...
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... and solving local urban and rural problematics.
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Implementing meaningful spatial strategies ...
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... generating new living environments,
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... building an attractive and resilient valley ...
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... in between nature and leisures.