Abstract
This article presents the urban thinking of Gaston Bardet - a twentieth century French urbanist - and is guided by the understanding of his critical reading of the city and of the current theories of the time, to formulate an idea of becoming. Its starting point was restlessness: was this the manner in which Bardet built his understanding of modern urbanism? His entire collection of work has been investigated, as well as his historiographical production. The documentary analysis was based on the order of the texts, the way in which Bardet pronounced, correlated, argued, analogized, and proceeded towards conceptual reuses, in a given socio-temporal context. The first part includes statements constructed by Bardet on urbanism, which enable us to perceive the priorities he considered to be challenges to that recent field of discipline. The second part is dedicated to the formulation of utopia in Le Nouvel Urbanisme, which viewed urbanism not only as a science, but primarily as a discipline endowed with a strong social character.
Keywords:
Gaston Bardet; Modern urbanism; Declarations; Le Nouvel Urbanisme; Social dimension; Utopia