Plenary Lecture

Artialised Environments of Paris, France: Urban Partitioning

Professor Jon Bryan Burley
Landscape Architecture
School of Planning, Design, and Construction
Human Ecology Building
Michigan State University
USA
E-mail: burleyj@msu.edu
Co-authors: Xiao Hou, Dr. Pat Crawford, Dr. Mark Wilson

 

Abstract: In behavioral science, investigators are interested in the social values and the perception of space. One form of expressing these values is represented in the artailisation of space, where individuals selectively depict images they wish to convey to others, excluding other settings and nearby environments. We examined this behavior expression in Paris, France. We collected the images of photographs from a small respondent group who had shared their images with others in the springs of 2015 and 2016. The locations of these images were mapped. Large districts within the city were not represented (unrepresented districts). We took pictures of these districts and compared the images from these districts with the images that respondents had shared. The results illustrate that there are two distinct parts of Paris: one is the Paris that people would like to share (full of landmarks and historic landscapes); the other one is not (containing a matrix of Haussmann post-medieval urban fabric). In other words the two groups of photographs are very different. And in many respects, the unrepresented districts are like “lost space,” as if the districts did not matter and were invisible and unsuitable to the visitor who took photographs. We suggest that the “lost space” may require a re-examination concerning the quality and spatial organization of these districts.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dr. Jon Burley, is a registered Landscape Architect, an MSU associate professor of landscape architecture in SPDC, and a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). He has accomplished professional planning and design work in the U.S., Canada, France and Nepal. Burley has published nearly 400 articles and abstracts related to landscape architecture, one book in reclamation planning and design, and one book in landscape history. His work has been published in English, Chinese and French. Besides English, he can also speak French (somewhat) and a little Portuguese and Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese). Burley has won numerous teaching, design and research awards, including a Fulbright to Portugal in 2003, the 2005 ASMR Reclamation Researcher of the Year Award, a 2011-2012 Invited Pre-eminent Researcher Award in France, and 10 state and two national ASLA awards. He has international connections at Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China; Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal; and Agro-campus Ouest-Paysage, Angers, France. Burley is the past chair of the ASLA International Professional Practice Network, past member of the AFB40 Landscape and Environmental Design Committee Transportation Research Board National Academies, past chair of the ASLA Restoration and Reclamation Professional Practice Network, and past chair of Chairs for the ASLA Professional Practice Network. At MSU, he works with visiting scholars and students from China, Turkey, Japan, Portugal, and France. Burley has lectured in Nepal, China, S. Korea, Sweden, Estonia, Portugal, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, U.S., the United Kingdom (U.K.), Turkey, and Canada; and has led overseas studies in the U.K., France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Morocco, Greece, and Italy. Dr. Burley has given past presentations at seven WSEAS conferences in Asia, Europe, and North America.

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