ABSTRACT
The study of Lyons in modern times shows that it is impossible to understand the action of municipal authorities only from written sources. This is because they refer generally to places difficult to locate precisely, and because they seem to be only limited actions. Only a general narrative is possible working that way. The precise mapping makes appear the logics implicitly operating beyond apparently isolated decisions, locating every house, associating houses and names, informing the street transformations. The clusters of spatial events on the map show associated decisions otherwise impossible to see: series of re-buildings along new lines, paving of street sections, water conduits, location of wealth and poverty, political links. Thus, planning logics not mentioned in written sources become obvious. Geography helps making a history that be also a history in space and weaved with urban fabric.
KEYWORDS
Geographical history; urban history; planning politics; urban fabric; social history; Lyons