Resumen de De la ville régulière à la ville paysagère: La premiére géneration des villes nouvelles balnéaires du litoral Manche-Atlantique sous le Second Empire
A discussion of the first generation of new seaside resorts built on the French Atlantic Channel under the Second Empire. Of the over 750 resorts built since the mid 19th century, almost one-third had been completed by the end of the Second Empire. These resorts were laboratories for experimenting with new forms of urbanism. The shore was colonized in line with the principles of the establishment of “European” towns, far from or adjacent to the “indigenous” towns. The town grid was created in checkerboard patterns, orthogonal or, less often, fan-shaped. Resorts also gave rise to “park-towns” with networks of winding, curved pathways that were comparable to the urban development of Parisian woods and parks.
