Les périurbains sont-ils anti-urbains ? Les effets de la fragmentation communale

Eric Charmes Are periurban areas anti-urban ? The effects of the fragmentation of communities In his seminal article Urbanism as a Way of Life written in 1938, Louis Wirth said that the two main factors with the greatest influence on urban life were the density and heterogeneity of the populations living together. With periurbanisation, these two factors lose their prominence : population becomes less dense and, above all, residential quarters become much more homogeneous. This observation leads on to the notion that, because the characteristics that historically create urbanism disappear with periurbanisation, the values and lifestyles of periurbanisation are anti-urban. This article discusses this idea in more detail.