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Résumé Les rives de Meurthe, à Nancy, interrogent la relation paysage-environnement dans les pratiques d'aménagement. Les enjeux environnementaux, économiques et sociaux des collectivités territoriales s'expriment par la réappropriation d'un milieu de vie qui convoque le paysage. Les contraintes d'inondations deviennent une opportunité pour relier la ville à la rivière et les aménagements hydrauliques font émerger un paysage, en installant des continuités et de nouveaux usages. Projet hydraulique, projet politique, projet de paysage convergent pour initier un changement de regard sur la Meurthe et ses dangers qui permet la réappropriation des berges et des quartiers riverains. Ce chemin ouvert vers la rivière, combinant les savoir-faire de l'environnement et du paysage, donne une réalité à la trame verte et bleue de l'agglomération. Il ouvre aussi une voie pour redéfinir les pratiques d'aménagement.

Urban agricultural projects have been mushrooming since the end of the twentieth century, reshaping urban landscapes and even the whole urban fabric, experimenting with alternatives to the traditional urban life, sometimes creating new commons, and bringing people together. Within a city, farmers, gardeners, and their neighbors share more than just fence lines. Cities already have a huge potential for farming. Three examples can be observed in very different cities around the World: Singapore, is fully self-reliant in meat, Bamako is self-sufficient in vegetables, and in Berlin there are 80,000 community gardens on communal land and 16,000 more people are on a waiting-list. And this is just the beginning; in many cities new unbuilt areas emerge in the wake of deindustrialization (derelict lands, wastelands, brownfields, etc.), or as a consequence of urban shrinking due to aging populations (as in Japan or Germany), or of emigration (as in some African mid-sized cities). These new areas are a wonderful opportunity for urban agriculture. In Detroit, thousands hectares of urban land have been given over to unemployed workers for food growing. In Britain, urban agriculture has been promoted on wastelands of 20 cities by their various councils. Urban agriculture is gradually becoming a planning policy option. In Delft, the planners of the city already combine urban agriculture with several other land uses in their planning documents; in Paris, an inclusive local land development plan protects agricultural landscapes. Urban agriculture is neither - or no more - the short-lived remnant of a rural culture nor the hipsters' latest futile craze.