Night-time as a strategic referent for an intermediary city: between attractiveness and standardization of the uses. The case of the Reims Grand Centre urban project (France)
Résumé
This article analyses the nocturnal dimension to the Reims Grand
Centre project. It brings out a shift in approach by those involved
in urban design, with an increased sensitivity to nocturnal
matters. This provides a way of improving user comfort and
developing new evening and night-time usages. Nevertheless,
this attention to the nocturnal dimension is incomplete, seeking
to make places more attractive only to certain parts of the
population, leading to various pre-existing usages being
displaced or pushed out, thereby increasing social and
behavioural normativity.