La transformation des villes au bas moyen‑âge entre Valence et Pise
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The morphology of the cities considerably changes during the late Middle Age, with some last extensions, a consolidation and densification process, new important religious and public buildings, the evolution of the trading spaces, the appearance of urban fringes, in a context of growing technicity. Later, the epidemics and the Hundred Years war induce from the mid‑Fourteenth century, because of the demographic collapse and of the building of new fortification walls, a cristallisation of the urbanised perimetres and the abandonment of the extra‑muros quarters. This corresponds to a new differenciation phase between the cities