Glossary
Towards soils urbanism: challenges and recommendations for urban players

Invisibility of urban soils; Invisibilité des sols urbains

Corresponds to the loss of knowledge of urban soils that began in the 19th century. Soil became the receptacle for the techniques that enabled cities to function (sewers, networks, etc.).

Attachments; Attachments

Soil is the foundation of our civilizations. They are the main source of our development: food and healthcare, water and shelter, clothing, lighting, heating... Every landscape is the product of its soils. These functions produce affects that bind us to the soils we walk on, and which constitute our environments.

Values

Soil is often associated with nostalgia for a bygone or fantasized era. Soil is not a value of the past, it's a subject for the future! Because we invest in them first and foremost...