Le bleu du front de mer
A doctrine of tropical island urbanity might well establish a close relationship between the urban and the maritime. Situated by the sea in the gentle breeze of the trade winds, the Caribbean city, necessarily a port, would thus have a waterfront as a fundamental structure of its public space. Howev...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Agrocampus Angers, Ecole nationale supérieure du paysage, ENP Blois, ENSAP Bordeaux, ENSAP Lille
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Projets de Paysage |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/paysage/33453 |
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| Summary: | A doctrine of tropical island urbanity might well establish a close relationship between the urban and the maritime. Situated by the sea in the gentle breeze of the trade winds, the Caribbean city, necessarily a port, would thus have a waterfront as a fundamental structure of its public space. However, this is not so and many of our observations show that these contact areas have been progressively marginalised, abandoned to informal occupation and industrial decay. Such is the case of Pointe-à-Pitre whose waterfront is particularly constrained by a palimpsest of previous occupations, where road traffic prevails over pedestrian traffic, where the rusty grey of the buildings largely dominates the blue of the ocean horizons. To objectify this atrophied relationship, this contribution proposes a colorimetric analysis of the seascape as seen from the height of a passer-by strolling along the seafront, based on a panoramic photographic inventory. The photographs are gridded and from them colorimetric values are extracted using three distinct methods: dominant value, average value and sensitivity analysis. This measuring of the landscape based on perceived colour shows that the Point-à-Pitre seafront provides very little access to the maritime landscape. The waterfront is not so blue in Guadeloupe’s major city. This linear inventory of the seascape is seeks to reflect on the urban trajectory of the port city. |
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| ISSN: | 1969-6124 |