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From real-life experience to map. Using landscape as a tool for decentralized urban planning

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International audience; The large diffusion of GIS is greatly improving the capacities of territorial analysis; yet these tools are increasing the weight of cartographic representations and the gap between the everyday's space and the space of town planning projects. GIS are certainly essential tools, but they require a reflection about their territorial effects. The maps of "intervisibility" which are produced this way are difficult to understand and address the issue of mediation. We propose to contribute to the reflection through experiments conducted in France. We successively used maps and photos within the framework of town planning projects; we are now able to propose a protocol which formalizes the interactions between the project space and the real-life space. This process is improving the dialogue and the decentralization; the landscape becomes a tool for urban development.