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heritage and culture as instruments of qualification of urban spaces : the case of the Musée Urbain Tony Garnier

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International audience; In this essay we will bring up the question of designing atypical objects, in this case, social housing, as cultural heritage. The continuing process of development of western cities raises new questions concerning division of living-areas produces districts of mixed populations, together with phenomena of social differentiation. Heritage and culture are henceforward tools for distinguishing social spaces and the groups of the associations movement unceasingly produces new heritage-artefacts, sometimes in contradiction with the administrative services of universe of heritage, and the concept of public good is in a certain way made use of in growing phenomena of urban and and social distinction, is unequal, as heritage maintains a certain distance from popular more often than not, destroyed or swept along in the process of urban renewal, where the collection of memory stands as heritage.