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Towards soils urbanism: challenges and recommendations for urban players

Author: Patrick HENRY

Publication date: February 10, 2024

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4. Disciplinary shifts to reveal soil potential

Taking soil potential into account when defining urban development projects is a powerful way of renewing the urban project by contributing to regional development, combating the artificialization of land and the disappearance of natural, agricultural and forest areas, and adapting to changing lifestyles and economic and climatic changes.

It's no longer a question of walking on the ground, but of walking with it. To achieve this, we need to rethink our modes of intervention (and their temporality), in which the transformation project is seen not as a solution, but as an iterative process.

4.1 Taking soil characteristics into account

By adopting the first principle of permaculture, "observe and interact".

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