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Housing - Work - Territory, spatial and social structures of agricultural and mining settlements in Northern France
Being part of a PHD research on the typology of mining settlements in Northern France, this study focuses on the relation of housing, work and territory in the preindustrial agriculture and the early mining era. It addresses the question, how the spatial and social structures of housing and work are influenced by the territory and its characteristics. While there is an important body of research covering both agricultural (or rural) and mining settlements, these studies focus either on one or the other subject. By producing and comparing architectural drawings of both types in three scales (territory, settlement, building), we intend to fill this observed gap. This study reveals that, in agricultural and mining societies, the housing types are clearly linked to work through territory, which literally provides the basis for the respective socio-economic system: While the first tills the surface and depends on the accessibility of water, the second literally digs deeper and is based on the quantity and quality of coal fields. In both cases, the spatial structures like the localisation and disposition of settlements highly depend on the soil. Concerning the social structures, the exploitation of this soil defines the society outside and inside the household. Agricultural and mining settlements both display a specific and singular relationship of housing and work, of which the territory seems to be the determinant common ground. The territory, namely its geological features, can thus be depicted as a profound and nearly timeless identity for regional cultures, providing consistency through socio-economic transformations. This hypothesis offers a new strategy to be put to benefit for the ongoing transformations of our current socio-economic model. Consequently, the relation of housing, work and territory becomes a major tool in the change towards a post-carbon society. In the deindustrialised zones of Northern France, renovating this relationship provides a new lever for prosperity and sustainability.
Housing - Work - Territory, spatial and social structures of agricultural and mining settlements in Northern France
Being part of a PHD research on the typology of mining settlements in Northern France, this study focuses on the relation of housing, work and territory in the preindustrial agriculture and the early mining era. It addresses the question, how the spatial and social structures of housing and work are influenced by the territory and its characteristics. While there is an important body of research covering both agricultural (or rural) and mining settlements, these studies focus either on one or the other subject. By producing and comparing architectural drawings of both types in three scales (territory, settlement, building), we intend to fill this observed gap. This study reveals that, in agricultural and mining societies, the housing types are clearly linked to work through territory, which literally provides the basis for the respective socio-economic system: While the first tills the surface and depends on the accessibility of water, the second literally digs deeper and is based on the quantity and quality of coal fields. In both cases, the spatial structures like the localisation and disposition of settlements highly depend on the soil. Concerning the social structures, the exploitation of this soil defines the society outside and inside the household. Agricultural and mining settlements both display a specific and singular relationship of housing and work, of which the territory seems to be the determinant common ground. The territory, namely its geological features, can thus be depicted as a profound and nearly timeless identity for regional cultures, providing consistency through socio-economic transformations. This hypothesis offers a new strategy to be put to benefit for the ongoing transformations of our current socio-economic model. Consequently, the relation of housing, work and territory becomes a major tool in the change towards a post-carbon society. In the deindustrialised zones of Northern France, renovating this relationship provides a new lever for prosperity and sustainability.
Housing - Work - Territory, spatial and social structures of agricultural and mining settlements in Northern France
2019-01-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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