Urban small island

See also: Small island (homonymy)

A small island (urban) is a whole of buildings constituting a unit in a Ville.

It can be a question of a Maison surrounded by Bief S or channels as to Annecy or Venice. It is probably the special configuration of this city which is at the origin of the second direction.

During the modern time, a small island was a block of houses, i.e. a relatively restricted whole of houses surrounded by a network of street or Avenue S. the inhabitants gave for addresses the name of their small island. In this second direction, “small island” gave the derivative “îlotier”.

With New York, Manhattan is characterized by a network of streets and avenues which delimit in a rigorous way of the small islands ( blocks ) all identical, broad of 60 Mètre S and length of 140. This system was set up by a Commission in 1811 in order to regulate rationally the urbanization of the island.

To Tokyo, each small island carries a number within a district. This number belongs to the postal address of the houses which constitute it.

Paris tried out all kinds of small islands. The medieval small island , with its courses and its passages, in a great measurement disappeared. The small island haussmannien, with a frontage on street continues which isolates one or more course interior closed, dominates in the majority of the districts. At the beginning of the 20th century, the concerns hygienists led to the development of a list of “unhealthy small islands” which will be used as reference to the projects of transformation of the capital. The great operations of town planning of the Years 1960 and 1970 thus founded a new small island, without plan clear and separated from the street. One returns today to a concept of intermediate small island between the small island haussmannien closed and the small island of the great units, with for example the “open small island” defined by Christian de Portzamparc.

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