Renewal, densification, restructuring and rehabilitation are all new issues now recurring in complex situations already characterized and issues increasingly entangled.
The Bouscat see the co-existence of disparate urban forms from successive phases of development.
The metropolitan condition measured by the intensity of its trade, energy of its economic and social fabric, its ability to adapt to new requirements development while balancing heritage and modernity. But also in its ability to integrate its periphery to expand its center to regenerate constantly, constantly reinvent themselves. The metropolitan condition finally measured by the number and quality of its major urban areas and their ability to stage the expression of social practices.
We see the fragmentation of urban forms, the disparity, heterogeneity, reports sometimes so violent heritage and modernity, one of the challenges of metropolitan manufacturing conditions.