Michel Desvigne and urbanité à venir

Contemporary landscape architecture of the “French school”, whose theoretical pivot is supported, among others, by the studies of Augustin Berque, Pierre Donadieu and Alain Roger, and which includes the heterogeneous operational contributions of Gilles Clément, Bernard Lassus, Michel Corajoud, and Michel Desvigne, has emerged in all its importance in recent decades, especially in the development of large-scale urban projects. It must also be noted that, in the recent past, this new line of thought has received fundamental contributions with regard to the concept of environment (Tissier 1996), of space (Bachelard 1961), of milieu (from Paul Vidal de la Blache to Augustin Berque) or of espace (Lévy 1999). Also reflections developed by geography of “naturalist” inspiration, capable of going beyond the description and elaboration of typologies, aimed at underlining and highlighting the recurrent frequency of structures, have constituted a further decisive contribution (Repishti 2008, pp. 33-38).