Local temporalities: Applications and new challenges
With the current crisis of time, marked by a crumbling of social rhythms and an increased sense of acceleration, the analysis of temporalities has become a new focus of territorial public policy. However, inconstencies remain between the issues arising from hypertension in territorial rhythms, and the methods currently used to characterize them. Whether drawing on time-geography or the concept of the “chronotrope” introduced by the Istituto politecnico di Milano, studies aimed at improving our understanding of territorial time reveal how difficult it is to capture so intangible a phenomenon. Our goal in this article is to describe the contributions and limits of existing methods used to portray territorial rhythms and discuss the work carried out in the context of our thesis on the development of a serial photography method designed to capture subtle evolutions in the customs of a given environment, as a way to contribute to what is increasingly becoming known as time-based land use planning.