Autore: Viallon, Julia
Titolo: Residents in the Material Construction of the City. Ordinary Urban Planning in Eighteenth-Century Marseille
Periodico: Quaderni storici
Anno: 2024 - Volume: 176 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 489 - Pagina finale: 508

While major urban planning projects have been the subject of a rich historiography, the possibility for residents to participate in these undertakings remains little studied. The archives created in the course of the expansion of the city of Marseille from 1666 onwards, and in particular the correspondence of the Intendance, reveal the attempts made by the residents to modify or reject some of the projects planned as part of the city’s expansion. In this way, through the arbitration of the Intendant de Provence, the residents of the city played a direct role in its embellishment and influenced its structure. In this context, we argue that, even within the given framework of an urban planning project conceived over a specific period of time and according to predetermined plans, the intervention of the inhabitants is inevitable and determines the final result. The city, in its material form, is thus the basis for a study of inhabitant intervention, the consensus between the forms of authority of the Ancien Régime – the Comptroller General of Finances, the Intendant of Provence, but also the municipality and the aldermen – and the residents. Finally, the study of these forms of participation provides an insight into the complainants’ conception of the status of inhabitant or owner and the rights they attached to it.




SICI: 0301-6307(2024)176:2<489:RITMCO>2.0.ZU;2-H
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