Espaces et échanges : définitions 0 Définitions Condition de création et de renouvellement, l'échange a besoin d'un espace ouvert. À...

« Espaces et échanges : définitions 0 Définitions Condition de création et de renouvellement, l'échange a besoin d'un espace ouvert.

À l' heure où les frontières ne cessent de bouger, où l'espace virtuel accélère les échanges, la question de la place de l'individu et de la société se pose avec acuité.

Notre monde en mouvement fait-il la part belle à un désir d'ouverture ou à un repli sur soi ? $ Space (n.) [spe1s]: the amount of an area that is empty, blank or available for specific purposes, a distance between things or people, an opportunity for privacy. $ Exchange (n.) [iks-/eks-chanj]: an occurrence in which people give things of similar value to each other, a matter of give and take. $ 1.

Globalisation • Technological progress has triggered off a tremendous globalising process that has dramatically changed our ways of lite. • We exchange info, trade products, move from space to space faster and faster. • Globalisation gives us a feeling of international integration.

We can communicate with the whole world . • Of course, this new mode of exchanging also means a particularly strong interdependence, in terms of economics, for example, which is bound to leave out less competitive countries. $ 2.

Symbollc and virtual spaces • Capital cities are often symbols of exchange.

ln that respect, New York and London are great global cities.

The Big Apple certainly is a good example of the American melting pot.

London is the very salad bowl city. • Quite interesting is the fact that language proves a deeper and deeper mixing of cultures whereas the gaps between social classes are growing wider and wider. • The Internet has considerably changed the meaning of space and exchange for.... »