This paper explores consumer logistics in urban settings by focusing on the evolution of pedestrian transportation. It accounts for how people carry things in the city and how this is related to the frames of the city and other means of transportation. The methodology combines archaeology, observation, and statistics, and rests on systematic coding of photographical archives. It analyses two streets, one in Gothenburg, Sweden and one in Toulouse, France, over four distinctive periods: before World War I, the wars and interwar period, the 1950s-1960s, and the present. Both dramatic and discrete changes are found, such as the simultaneous proliferation in the use of pedestrians' bags and motorised types of transportation. The paper identifies geographical, technical, and cultural differences, while yielding surprising similarities between the two cities. The paper concludes that the neglected issue of consumer logistics need to be brought into the contemporary discourse on sustainable cities.
Résumé « Contourner » le journalisme professionnel sur internet renvoie, le plus souvent, à l’avènement d’un journalisme « participatif », ou encore à la multiplication de productions « citoyennes » ou « ordinaires ». À partir d’une analyse du site journalistique Médiapart, nous voudrions montrer ici que « contourner » le journalisme, c’est également composer avec la prolifération des échanges entre journalistes et lecteurs, permise par le web 2.0, pour redimensionner, affirmer et raffermir les frontières de cette profession. Médiapart, par son projet politique, son modèle économique, la structure de sa plate-forme technique, et par la multiplication des débats qu’il rend possible et contribue à animer, invite en effet à examiner comment se conteste mais aussi se rétablit la distance entre le professionnel et l’amateur.
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