Abstract
The period following a disaster is considered by some as a window of opportunity to rethink the planning of vulnerable territories. In a context of climate crisis, this could be an opportunity to change the way we think about planning, with risks, environments and their dynamics? And thus work to make these areas more habitable? I will try to answer this question through the study of the process of urban recomposition chosen by two municipalities in the Aude department following the flood of October 2018. The local actors did not favour identical reconstruction, but rather the will to rethink the organisation of the territory to make it more resilient in the face of crises and more pleasant to live in on a daily basis. The result of collective dynamics, the recomposition of these two territories is part of a logic of adaptation and resilience, embodying, in some respects, a new way of considering development in the Anthropocene era.