Modes d’habiter urbains et ruraux : entre continuité et rupture

The metropolization process marked the advent of a postmodern society in which the growing polarization of agglomerations on local space would lead to a levelling of lifestyles. The decades-old process of suburbanization illustrates the physical and social diffusion of urban features towards more and more distant spaces, which thus become dependent on the city-center. This paper therefore aims at exploring whether urban gradients can be identified when moving from the city to rural areas. Such gradients are a function of morphological features (most notably, density), and functional features (... Mehr ...