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Esteban, Philippe. "Le contentieux de l'urbanisme du XVIIIe siècle à nos jours." Paris 2, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA020045.
Full textRioux, Gabriel. "Le milieu de l'urbanisme à Montréal (1897-1941) : histoire d'une "refondation"." Thèse, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5965/1/D2601.pdf.
Full textJurado, Barroso Pauline. "Photographier des ruines modernes, en témoin d'une histoire de l'urbanisme récent." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSES041.
Full textThe « Defunctionalization » of architecture completely transforms the reading of the object : traces of erosion have a symbolic and expressive charge that modifies its interpretation. «Modern ruins» refer to early obsolescence, characteristic of the industrialization of building process which encourages the substitution of old things by new ones and increase destructions. They are closely linked to progress and the acceleration of urban renewal. Tower blocks of social housing appear to be the ultimate symbols of modern structures threatened by destruction; their monumentality and weakness intrigue and fascinate. How could artistic photography offer a critical contribution that changes the way we gaze at ruins as a component of actual urban landscape? It seems that reconsidering ruins through creation is possible. The subject matter of this thesis is not the ruin itself but its representations through photography. It’s not about proposing a methodology neither a guide to photograph ruins, but to present some questions that arises from photographic practices of derelict spaces as spatial, cultural and sensitive experiences
Grand-Deleage, Sophie. "La concertation dans le droit de l'urbanisme." Lyon 3, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992LYO33010.
Full textOnce closely related ideas like participation removed, concertation connected with rights in town-planning can appear as a specific stage in the elaboration process of certain town-planning decisions allowing in particular collaboration between state and commune, both intrusted in this field with power
Arango, López Diego. "Villes capitales en projet : histoire comparative de l'urbanisme moderne : Bogota Buenos Aires. 1920-1955." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0058.
Full textThis research analyzes the simultaneous establishment of three urbanism projects in Bogota and three projects in Buenos Aires between 1920 and 1955. It explores the general characteristics of urbanism projects themselves and seeks primarily to understand the political and social transformations of both cities throughout the history of the projects within this time period. The comparative perspective used here required research in différent archives and libraries of Bogota, Buenos Aires and Paris. A diverse documentary corpus has been constituted with technical, administrative, political, personal, journalistic and other documents. This research allows us to understand how the establishment of similar projects triggers divergent social developments in two different societies. It also analyzes the power struggles between different social and political associations, with focus on the mechanisms used to reinforce their social standing and their action strategies. The research contributes to the reflection on the process of co-production of modem urbanism and proposes a new mode of analysis to understand the urban history of Latin America
Sebei, Abid. "Règlementation urbaine et lecture de la ville arabo-musulmane à travers la Doukkana de Ibnou Addhoum." Paris 8, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA081634.
Full textTogay, Tumen Aysel. "Les traits principaux de l'urbanisme de l'Asie mineure au bronze ancien." Paris 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA010582.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to try to find out and to trace the ancient bronze age town planning references in Asia minor. A morphological analysis of three stratigraphically excavated example-sites representing three different regions brings out specific ancient bronz age references as well as those inherited from chalcolithic. A comparative study with regiona l or inter-regional contemporary sites allows to trace the advancement of the establised references in space and time. A proto-urban state seems to be attained temporarily by some sites during ancient bronz age. The contribution of ancient bronz age town planning references in the urban structure of middle bronz age seems most probable
Grudet, Isabelle. "L' "Histoire de l'urbanisme" de Pierre Lavedan de 1919 à 1955 : entre savoir et action." Paris 8, 2005. http://portaildocumentaire.citechaillot.fr/search.aspx?SC=theses&QUERY=cour+ouverte#/Detail/%28query:%28Id:%270_OFFSET_0%27,Index:1,NBResults:1,PageRange:3,SearchQuery:%28CloudTerms:!%28%29,ForceSearch:!t,Page:0,PageRange:3,QueryString:Grudet,ResultSize:10,ScenarioCode:theses,ScenarioDisplayMode:display-standard,SearchLabel:%27%27,SearchTerms:Grudet,SortField:!n,SortOrder:0,TemplateParams:%28Scenario:%27%27,Scope:%27%27,Size:!n,Source:%27%27,Support:%27%27%29%29%29%29.
Full textThis work questions the correlation between theoretical and doctrinal aspects of discourses about the city. It analyses the first series of History of urbanism written by the historian of art Pierre Lavedan (1885-1982), a major reference for town planners, historians and geographers, especially after the Second World War. The hypothesis is that this author, as an intermediary figure between knowledge and action, has produced texts that reflect the positions he has successively occupied in the field of history of art and later in the field of urbanism. The empirical study shows that these positions have in common to support the idea of mediation: as an historian – mediator Pierre Lavedan has nurtured several paradigms of urbanism. This work invites to study the mediation of urbanism and to overcome the critics of the correlation between knowledge and action on the one hand, and of the orientation of history on the other hand, in order to think of the historian – mediator as an actor in the field of urbanism
Toriumi, Motoki. "Les promenades de Paris de la Renaissance à l'époque haussmannienne : esthétique de la nature dans l'urbanisme parisien." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0040.
Full textHan, Seung-Jun. "L'urbanisme planifié et opérationnel : étude comparée entre la France et la Corée." Paris 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA010281.
Full textThis study compaping French and Korean laws presents the ways and means used after decentralization and competence tranfers relating to city-planning. It poses the problem of Korean city-planning rules relevance the preliminary part reviews development of city-planning's rules. In an historical way for korea, it analyses after wards the institutional system through the actors, then, decentralization of city-planning's rules in Korea and France. However, competences tranfer has been successfull in France, it comes up against many problems in Korea, particularly the abscence of any general principle. The first part puts forward the nature and content of national and local applications rules in France, the "POS" ratifies decentralizations mouvement and the "SD" comes from a cooperation between communes. In Korea space planning is based on "PAS" and "SD" that emphasize the abscence of local dialogue. The second part studies the means concerning concret applications of planned developments land use's and financial control expreses itself in a different way in the two countries, in France, communes are obliged to take on city-planning's financial obligations but they receive neverthelessaides from state. In Korea high population density represent obstacles. At last, techniques in city-planning's operations apply to housing development and zac in France and to "remembrement" and ZDAF in Korea. So, the various elements inspired by French system could without any doubt bring solutions to korean problems
Zanini, Laura. "Les ordres mendiants dans l'histoire de l'urbanisme de Paris : les couvents médiévaux de la rive gauche." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040190.
Full textThe goal of this work is to examine the development of the convent buildings of the main mendicant orders with relation to the development of the medieval urban structure. The first part of the thesis provides a historical and methodological context whereas the second part analyses the development of convents in the 13th and 15th centuries and the important role of mendicant friars in the organization of large urban areas. The architectural patrimony of the mendicants has been almost completely lost. For this reason in the last part of the thesis we have analyzed the last two centuries of urban development using the ancient maps of Paris with the support of historical documents. The observation of the ancient structures in transparency through the present map of Paris leads to new interesting observation
Awidan, Gamal Farag. "De l'urbanisme étatique à la gouvernance urbaine : l'exemple de Tripoli (Libye)." Besançon, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BESA1033.
Full textThe city of Tripoli expressed remarkably, the urban transformation had known Libya. Within a few decades it has grown from a small town, surrounded by a few kilometers of walls, to the rank of first city in the country with more than one million inhabitants. The origin of this expansion is the state’s action which, through a series of measures, has changed the face of the capital. Explaining this evolution could be find in the introduction of a highly decentralization in the mid-1970s, which has been strengthened for the next decade by a socio-economic crisis due to falling oil prices and the imposed embargo by the United Nations on Libya. The policy carried out, based on major schemes and plans, had not reached the expected results, the central government will then try to work closely with different actors (municipalities, districts committees, inhabitants. . . ) in order to fill the demand for housing. But from now on, the state seeks to limit its intervention in financial aid to promote conditions for investment in this sector, to encourage saving in real estate. These new orientations aim to involve inhabitants in everyday management. This theme of urban governance, in the sense of popular participation in resolving problems that arise in everyday life, to shape their environment, to design their city deserves to be questioned. Our research, which based on a field survey conducted in different districts of Tripoli, is to analyze these mutations in interaction perspective
Bradel, Vincent. "Nancy 1913, un rêve de cité moderne : l'esquisse d'un plan d'extension aux premiers temps de l'urbanisme." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0182.
Full textMay 4, 1913, opens in the premises of the Chambre de Commerce de Nancy, the first exhibition of urban planning ever organized in France, the Exposition de la Cité Moderne, culminating in a preliminary draft of a plan d’extension of the Lorraine capital. Characterized by a Grand Boulevard de Circonvallation that redraws the limits of a city in full development, this plan embodies the urban ambitions of a new regional golden age born from the proximity of the border with Germany since 1871, and formidable boom of the mining basin of Briey since the 1900’s. However, the exhibition is not the fact of the city councilors of Nancy, but of the ironmasters of the Société Industrielle de l'Est, and the plan is not due to initiative of the organizers, but a group of local architects better known for their participation in the École de Nancy. At the very moment when Place Stanislas stands out as an essential reference, the quality of the international documentary survey conducted in advance, and the participation of the Musée Social, but also the publication of the project in the columns of L'Architecture, and its exhibition in Ghent, Lyon and Paris, complete this expansion plan as a singular witness of the early days of urban planning. Beyond the Lorraine and Nancy conditions of its emergence, the intention is to resituate its genesis in relation to the big morphological questions raised by the international debate which is organized around the Berlin and London demonstrations, and more particularly, the question the treatment of the limits of the Big City, between belt-boulevard and garden-city, between park system and green belt
Schlicklin, Alexandra. "Robert Joly (1928-2012) : urbaniste, moderne, intellectuel : les nouvelles figures de l'architecture." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0342/document.
Full textThe thesis draws up the portrait of Robert Joly (1928-2012), and through him one time of renewal of the trades and postures of the architect in the years 1960-1990 in France. Robert Joly crosses the major debates of the profession and often takes an even militant active part there, either by architectural construction, or by other media. The graduate architect of the Art schools is also town planner of formation. Between 1928 and 1957, it constitutes its personal luggage of references: the taste of the territory, the choice of L '' modern architecture Scandinavian and the heritage of French town planning. Between 1958 and 1969, it explores the place of town planning in practice architectural, since installation and territorial planning until the urban and landscape integration of the projects. But the architect builds also much during this decade, arriving at the end of the years 1960 at the synthesis of an architectural practice complexes, hybrid and rich. Its works are directed in the viable direction of modus operandi, making it possible architectural modernity to continue by acclimatizing it to geographical, human and cultural contexts. From the middle of the years 1960, he wonders with those of his generation on becoming to it modernity in crisis, and about the evolution of the roles of the architect. New practices open then, of which architectural assistance and research. The architect continues to build, being interested in the contribution of the social sciences in the buildings, in link with the claims carried per May 68. The commitment of the architect as intellectual still passes by the political militancy, and the writing and teaching
Saidouni, Maouia. "Rapports de force dans l'urbanisme colonial algérois (1855-1935) ou la genèse de l'aménagement urbain à Alger." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA081000.
Full textThis these is a new approche of the amenagnent process in colonised algiers. Its describes the problematic affirmation of the tendances in urbanism considered as chaotic. The group of actors that inform the problematic are : military institution represented by the service of genie, the civil institutions also represented by the municipalities and individual actors of amenagment called plan makers. These three types lie between the choosen period (1855-1935). They adopt different attitudes towards the questions of innovation. These attitudes are complementaries because they participate in an unique process. That is the affirmation of new ideas of urbanism linked to french urbanism of aligment in the nineteeth century. It is these contradictions that make this these interesting
Auzary, Bernadette. "Fluctuat nec mergitur : la Prévôté des Marchands et l'urbanisme parisien au XVe siècle d'après la jurisprudence du Parlement (1380-1500)." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA040027.
Full textThis study concerning the provostship's activity in Parisian town planning matters during the XVth century results of the civil decisions of the parliament of Paris. The investigation is based on the "reconstituted file" doctained by gathering the different types of sources found in the various records: "arrêts et juges, plaidoiries, decisions du conseil et accords". During the XVth century, the provostship has been progressively invested which the totality of the town's management. The merchant institution, born in the wealth of the XIIIth century, will have to deal with a war economy. Although she had been created to preserve the merchant class' privileges, her destination will be totally different during the XVth century : the merchant activity being relegated to a position of secondary importance, all efforts are at that moment concentrated on the defense of the town against the English threat. New attributions will appear which are going to change her nature and composition considerably: jurists are largely substituting for the merchants. The study of the litigation concerning town planning matters in which the municipality is involved shows clearly the seizure of the state service on merchant institution. This substitution of personnel testifies in fact a profound transformation of the provostship which will, at the conclusion of that difficult period, become a real town council
Allahoof, Turath. "L'architecture Islamique et l'urbanisme de l'ancienne ville de Najaf." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. https://ecm.univ-paris1.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversions/47ac17a5-d2d6-431b-b4ec-74e8cbcb06de.
Full textThe city of Najaf has inherited a rich architectural heritage and is today threatened with extinction. Thanks to the large number of religious tourists, the city is undergoing a metamorphosis although these changes are often at the origin of the destruction of this heritage. This thesis focuses on the architecture of the city of Najaf in its urban and historical context. The history of the city of Najaf is in continuity with that of the city of al-Kufa (capital between 36H / 658 and 40H / 662) which is located a few kilometers from Najaf. This city built by the Muslims in the year 17H / 639 represented a strategic point but also a political hub grown fast not far from the city a proximity of al-Hira, capital of the Lakhmids, also located a few kilometers away from it. This geographical configuration is locally called "the triangle of civilization", and represents a melting pot of several architectural and urban styles. The study of the two cities (al-Rira and alKufa) is therefore essential to understand the context in which the city of Najaf was created and developed. To understand the architecture of Najaf, we will first study the architecture of these two cities. Then to better know the architecture of the city, we will demonstrate the relationship created between the Imam Ali mausoleum, (considered as the central core of the city, and who kept these provisions since 1032H / 1623) and the rest of the city by the religious and civil monuments such as masques, schools and many other monuments. Through this thesis, we will present this architecture in its current state and in its urban, social and historical context
Bertrand, Frédéric. "L'architecture et l'urbanisme funéraires parisiens à l'ère des métropoles : regard sur l'oeuvre et la pensée de Robert Auzelle (1913-1983)." Paris 8, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA082209.
Full textClerc, Valérie. "Les principes d'action de l'urbanisme, Le projet Élyssar face aux quartiers irréguliers de Beyrouth." Phd thesis, Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2002. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00364982.
Full textVoldman, Danièle. "Histoire d'une politique : la reconstruction des villes françaises de 1940 à 1954." Paris 1, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA010527.
Full textIn France during the world war ii, the rebuilding of bombed cities begun early. In autumn 1940, the Vichy government set up agencies to coordinate the first clearance of rubble and to examine the elements of a consistent policy of urban development. Those policies were continuated after the liberation with the "Ministère de la reconstruction et de l'urbanisme". The history of town planning politics from 1940 to 1954 involves administrative, social, financial and architectural issues. It includes the analysis of networks of architects and town planners, with a description of relations between central policies and local decisions (11 case-studies). At the end of the process, town planning follows the reconstruction of cities with the same agencies
Camous, David-André. "L'espace non bâti dans le droit des sols : étude historique." Nice, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002NICE0029.
Full textVersaci, Antonella. "L'origine des secteurs sauvegardés : intentions et difficultés dans la mise en place des premières opérations." Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA083101.
Full textThe French law of 4 August 1962 raised for the first time the question of the protection of the historic areas, its three fundamental objectives being: safeguarding city centres of a historic, artistic and cultural importance; rendering previously uninhabitable lodging habitable, and; establishing financial incentives. At the time, four hundred cities were deemed worthy of protection. Today, less than 98 areas have been classified as "secteurs sauvegardés". This amount ought not be considered negligible. Numerous steps have been taken towards the safeguarding of the urban heritage, but this evolution has been slow and contradictory. The objective of this work is to shed light on the conceptions of heritage prevalent at the time, their practical implementation, the weaknesses and the strengths thereof via a historical analysis of the first generation "secteurs sauvegardés". The finding emanating from this research will aid in identifying appropriate policy for today’s safeguard and recognition of historic centres
Cabaret, Dominique-Marie. "L'urbanisme du nord de Jérusalem : du 2è s. av. au 2è s. ap. J.-C." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H009.
Full textThe "law of persistence of the plan", formerly applied by J. Sauvaget in Damascus, is proving fruitful for Jerusalem. The analysis, according to this principle, of the northern districts of the city delimited by the "Second Wall", respectively intramural and extramural to the west and east, shows the original urban network and its evolution. Advances in the science of ancient surveying, coupled with the reconsideration of the function and dating of the Ecce Homo arch – a Herodian urban gate rather than a triumphal arch of Ælia Capitolina – highlight a careful urbanism designed by John Hyrcanos around a three ways junction centred on the northern gate of the city (the current Damascus gate). Herod the Great himself, whose major works tend to obscure the above, had to deal with the well-thought-out urban planning of the high priest, developing a new orthonormal district north of the Temple. Hadrian only embellished the whole according to the fashion of his time, adding the vital organs of a Roman colony. The great forum of Ælia was dominated by the Capitolin Temple ad orientem and the former esplanade of the Jewish Temple was transformed into an aedes dedicated to imperial cult: an equestrian statue of the emperor was enthroned near the most sacred place of the Jewish Temple. The city's eventful history never succeeded in obscuring the Hasmonaean road network, which is still used today by hierosolymitans around the Damascus Gate
Rajalu, Bruno. "Les Grands travaux d'urbanisme et le régime de la construction dans la Rome antique." Paris 12, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA120205.
Full textBertoni, Angelo. "Les architectes et la naissance de l'urbanisme de Plan : pratiques locales, réseaux nationaux et transnationaux en France et Europe francophone (1880-1920)." Paris, EHESS, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EHES0137.
Full textThis thesis gave the possibility to investigate the role held by architects in the city reform movement that characterized -in France and in the francophone Europe the 1880-1920 period. This fact has determined the reconstruction of the social networks that linked architects to reform elites, as well as the prosopography of a professional circle that has reacted in many different ways to the project of a radical change in the architectural intervention scale. The contribution of these professionals to the city construction conceived as a knowledge, reformation and action object has been analyzed in five big towns at the borders of francophone countries: Brussels, Lausanne, Lille, Luxembourg and Nancy. Local urban experiences, international conferences trend and debates that followed the reconstruction of the regions destroyed by the war gave the possibillty to replace the birth of town planning in a national and transnational mobility framework of actors and notions
RAFFAUD, Fanny. "L'URBAIN, L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE EN FRANCE Essai d'analyse – Revue Urbanisme - 1964-2000." Phd thesis, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, 2003. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00006512.
Full textTocquer, Nicolas. "La nature urbaine selon Ildefonso Cerdá : de "l'idée urbanisatrice" à "l'urbanisation ruralisée "." Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0085/document.
Full textThe notion of “ruralized urbanization”, present in Ildefonso Cerdá’s (1815-1876) first writings, plays a more and more important role in his work. At the end of his life, it also was the subject of a treaty that never reached us. With this concept, the Catalan Engineer, known for his plan of the extension of Barcelona, aims, in a hygienist perspective, to improve health conditions in the city by the introduction of a green system. He also wants to think the urban development and the opening up of Spanish territory by a total urbanization that would transcend boundaries between rural and urban spaces. This thesis attempts to trace the genesis of this concept by exploring Cerda’s life, the advent of the “urbanization idea” and the manner in which it was achieved in Barcelona, in the so typical form of the Eixample area. Whilst intending to adapt the contemporary city, based on the movement, to the industrial society needs, Cerdá takes the roman road, inspired by the Antiquity. The territorial organization he recommends, based on urban spreading, orthogonal structure and space uniformity – what “ruralized urbanization” really means – gives an up-to-date dimension to the ancient models of space occupation and colonisation. This analysis of this concept encourages a new view on Barcelona and on its extension, surely synonymous of modernity and modernism, but which principles come ironically from the countryside and from the past. Considering the evolution of the “ruralized urbanization” is the very subject of the two first parts of the General theory of urbanization (1867), a translation into French is given in the appendix, what could allow to a francophone reader to experiment the depth of a still unrecognized thinking by himself
Thébault, Emma. "La ville à fleur d'eau : doctrines, techniques et aménagements de l'eau de pluie et des cours d'eau dans l'agglomération parisienne, 1970-2015." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H100.
Full textSince the 2010s, strategic local policies concerning urban resilience and biodiversity support are being promoted, focusing on ways to renew urban water management. Research points however, to the low effectiveness or efficiency of such urban environmental policies, and questions the need of renewing the relationship between the environment and the city. Other researches put forward that a major change occurs in urban rainwater management since the 1970s. We follow the idea of an ecological and climatic transformation of rainwater and urban rivers management since the 1970s. Three hypotheses underlie this thesis. First, based on ecological and climatic principles, a technical management doctrine transforms the urban water engineering. Secondly, urban hydrology has experienced a shift, carried out by new techniques. Thirdly, this technical doctrine has extended to urban planning and design. We tested the hypotheses by the study of a corpus of guides and technical documents produced between 1970 and 2015; of an inventory of techniques; and of five case-studies, completed with interviews with professionals. The study found that ecology is present, but as an auxiliary to sanitation principles. An ecological ethic is incorporated into technical doctrines : the use of living organisms in engineering is partially based their supposed superior effectiveness in spatial planning. The hydrology of the Paris metropolitan area seems to be marginally evolving. Urban neighborhoods are not transformed by water management : urban water spaces and facilities remain tenuous, discontinuous, underlying and preceded by other logics of spatial organization
Rovati, João Farias. "La modernité estailleurs : "ordre et progrès" dans l'urbanisme d'Edvaldo Pereira Paiva (1911-1981)." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/77766.
Full textWolff, Pauline. "L'urbanisme et le mouvement : discours d'une discipline naissante de 1849 à 1916." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25225.
Full textThis research started as the result of an observation: a recent appearance of the question of 'transportation' in the context of urban education and its rapid replacement by that of 'mobility'. This is a surprising observation, especially given the obvious links between the city and ‘transportation’ or ‘mobility’ issues: infrastructures, networks, circulation spaces, transport of people and goods, etc. Surprising to a greater degree when reading the founding authors of the discipline; their writings show that they all address these matters. Therefore, I wonder: where did ‘transportation’ go during the 20th century? A preliminary assumption is that the period of 1920 was a pivotal moment in the creation of a technicist thought, especially in the face of the automotive threat. This period will lead to the birth of traffic engineering which is given the task to adapt the city to circulation necessities following theoretical propositions that conform with the epistemological imperatives. Does Urban Planning not have any? As a discipline that longs for a science status since the second half of the 19th century, what does the emerging Urban Planning realm say about ‘transportation’ and where does it stand in this regard? This research tackles the previous question through the concept of ‘movement’, which is understood as technics, practices and representations to avoid the cultural and axiological baggage associated not only with ‘technic’, but also with the concepts of ‘transportation’ or ‘mobility’. Therefore, this work focuses on the textual discourses as being the place where norm and meaning are expressed, the point being to enter the epistemological realm that establishes the relationship between Urban Planning and ‘movement’. The purpose of this research was first, to theoretically position the question of ‘movement’ in the emerging Urban Planning discipline. Second, I suspected that the theoretical propositions of the first ‘urban planners’ where embedded in deep epistemological references about movement. Discourse analysis was used on seventeen ‘normative texts in Urban Planning’ written between 1849 and 1916. In addition, a historiographic study was conducted, through which five moments are revealed. These moments are associated with different meanings of movement between the 17th century and the 1930s. The result of this analysis leads to the fact that ‘movement’ clearly occupies a central place in the Urban Planning discourse between 1849 and 1916 : it prompts discussions about methods as well as the essence of this emergent science. The selected texts also appear like witnesses of the changing meaning of ‘movement’ through traces of former identified moments. To some extent, the analysis also concludes that Urban Planning does not convey a clear and epistemologically valid solution to the 20th century’s urban problems : early urban planners have proved to be very prudent and full of nuances in a positivist and technicist context. This constitutes a clue as to why the planning propositions could not compete with the traffic engineering solutions.