Editing Amiens (section)

===Urban morphology===

Amiens comprises a number of neighborhoods ({{langx|fr|quartiers}}) with their own characteristics, including Saint-Leu, St-Maurice, Henriville, and Saint-Acheul.

====Saint-Leu neighborhood====
St-Leu forms part of Amiens, north of the city center. It has many older wooden and brick houses and several canals. At the foot of the cathedral, traversed by canals, this picturesque area was largely rehabilitated during the 1990s. It extends to the [[River Somme|Somme]] canal, located more to the north, at the foot of the Coteau Saint-Pierre on which the fortress of [[Jean Errard]], called ''Citadelle'', was built. Historically, it was the poor neighborhood of the city, where butchers, tanners and dyers gathered.

Amiens University's Faculty of Sciences, present since the 1960s, has been renovated and expanded on occasion. The Faculty of Law and Economics has also been transferred since the mid-1990s from the campus (offset to the south of the city) to its new location at the foot of the cathedral.<ref group="note">Work had also been delayed, because some people{{who|date=November 2024}} wanted to "preserve the cathedral".</ref> The open-air parking it replaces was a "gap" in the landscape dating from [[World War II]]. Nonetheless, it allowed an unobstructed view of the cathedral. Most of the buildings have been renovated and transformed into housing much of which is for students.

The area became the heart of the Amiens people's evenings, with many establishments (bars, restaurants, etc.) on ''Place du Don'' and ''Quai Bélu''.

The church is found at ''Rue Saint-Leu'', located just between the Faculty of Science and Law-Economy (UPJV).

Two theatres were established in the neighborhood, that of the [[Chés Cabotans]] (puppet shows in the [[Picard language]]) and the ''Maison du Théâtre'' at the foot of the Saint-Leu Church. There is also ''La Lune des Pirates'', a concert hall.

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0 Amiens - Place du Don - Cathédrale (1).JPG|''Place du Don'': The River Somme and cathedral
0_Amiens_-_Quartier_Saint-Leu_%281%29.JPG|Saint-Leu: ''Rue du Hocquet''
Saint Leu rue d'Engoulvent.jpg|Saint-Leu: ''Rue d'Engoulvent'' and ''Rue des Majots''
Saint Leu rue d'Engoulvent depuis Majot.jpg|Saint-Leu: ''Rue d'Engoulvent''
Place Aristide Briand Amiens.jpg|Saint-Leu: ''Place Aristide Briand''
Amiens quartier saint leu canaux 200503.jpg|Canal in the Saint-Leu neighborhood
Quai belu amiens.JPG|Quai Bélu on the banks of the Somme, near the old market on the waterside
Amiens_StLeuAviron.jpg|The Samarobriva footbridge from the [[#rowing|Sport Nautique d'Amiens]] to Saint-Pierre Park in 2009
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====Saint-Maurice neighborhood====
Located to the west of the [[Citadel]]le, and east of the {{interlanguage link|Cimetière de La Madeleine (Amiens)|fr|3=Cimetière de La Madeleine (Amiens)|lt=La Madeleine Cemetery}}, this very old working-class neighborhood of Amiens acted as an industrial center in the 18th century. It is currently undergoing significant housing renovation and development.

Bordered by the [[Canal de la Somme]], it offers a stopover for leisure boats, which must go through a lock.

The walls of the city's former [[dye]] factory are now those of the {{interlanguage link|École supérieure d'art et de design d'Amiens|fr}} (ESAD) as well as those of the Faculty of Arts. The [[ESIEE Amiens|École supérieure d'ingénieurs en électronique et électrotechnique]] (ESIEE) is in the same neighborhood. As the Citadelle, it will be renovated by the architect [[Renzo Piano]] to accommodate the university departments (UFR) of: letters, history and geography, languages, the {{interlanguage link|École supérieure du professorat et de l'éducation|fr}} (ESPE), the House of Languages, the House of Research and the University Library in 2015.

The {{interlanguage link|Jardin des plantes d'Amiens|fr|3=Jardin des plantes d'Amiens|lt=Jardin des plantes}}, known as the ''Jardin du Roy'' within the city, is also located in this neighborhood.

[[File:Ami1b.JPG|thumb|The [[River Somme]] from the Boulevard de Beauvillé]]

====Henriville neighborhood====
The Henriville neighborhood was mostly built during the 19th century after the demolition of the city wall. It lies at the south of the town center. It has numerous [[bourgeois]] houses and [[townhouse]]s, predominantly in brick, blending architectural styles of the period, including [[neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]], [[Troubadour style#Architecture|troubadour]] and [[Gothic Revival architecture|neo-Gothic]]. There are also private mansions, such as the Acloque mansion and the house of [[Jules Verne]].

====Saint-Acheul neighborhood====
The Saint-Acheul neighborhood({{IPA|fr|sɛ̃t‿aʃœl|IPA}}) existed before Amiens' inception, as people have lived there since prehistoric times. This is where archaeological excavations in the nineteenth century discovered prehistoric tool sets typical of the "[[Acheulean]]" prehistorical era, named after this neighborhood (also spelled Acheulian, pronounced {{IPA|fr|aʃœljɑ̃|}}). Civilians can freely visit the archaeological garden there.

Not to be confused with the [[Communes of France|commune]] of [[Saint-Acheul]] situated {{convert|37|km|0|abbr=on}} to the north, the Saint-Acheul neighborhood is the site of a military cemetery from the [[First World War]] (1914–1918).

It also contains the [[Church of Saint-Acheul]], the Jesuit former [[Saint-Acheul College]] and the former [[normal school]] of teachers which became the Lycée Robert-de-Luzarches. A number of famous people are buried in the former [[Saint-Acheul cemetery]] such as the creator of ''[[Bécassine]]'' J.P. Pinchon, and many resistance fighters. Part of the neighborhood includes a so-called "English neighborhood," with typical English style houses. At the feet of this area lie the ''hortillonnages'', a marshy area criss-crossed by canals.

====Other neighborhoods====
Amiens, like other big cities, has its large [[HLM]] high-rise tower blocks:
* North of the city the neighborhoods ''du [[Dovecote|Pigeonnier]]'', which is famous for its weekend market, ''Messenger'', ''Mozart'', ''Fafet-Brossolette-la Cité'', ''Balzac'', and ''Léo Lagrange-Schweitzer'';
* Southeast of the city: ''[[Victorine-Autier]]'', ''Philéas Lebesgue'', ''Condorcet'', ''Pierre-Rollin''.
* West: ''[[Etouvie]]'' and ''Montières'' (an [[ecodistrict]] is provided in this industrial space, where there are 19th century in brick buildings).<ref>{{cite journal|title=Amiens, Un écoquartier en projet à Montières|id=E.G|journal=Le Moniteur|issue=5510|date=3 July 2009}}</ref>
* East: ''Saint-Acheul-la-Cité'' and the ''Clos de l'Avre''.

These areas experience a lot of social troubles and have regularly been the place for riots. The northern neighborhoods were the scene of violent events in 1994, 1999 and 2000 (clashes between several districts of the city and between the neighbourhoods of Amiens and the districts of [[Creil]]), in 2006 and 2008 (in the wake of incidents in the Paris suburbs){{citation needed|date=June 2015}} and more recently in August 2012 following a conflict between youth and the police. The cost of the latest vandalism to occur in the north of Amiens would amount, according to {{interlanguage link|Gilles Demailly|fr}}, to between four and six million euros. These extremely violent riots caused sixteen police officers to be injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.valeursactuelles.com/actualit%C3%A9s/politique/guerre-d%E2%80%99amiens-bien-eu-lieu20120918.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630140410/http://www.valeursactuelles.com/actualit%C3%A9s/politique/guerre-d%E2%80%99amiens-bien-eu-lieu20120918.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 June 2013 |title=La guerre d'Amiens a bien eu lieu |first=Gilles |last=Gaetner |work=Valeurs actuelles |date=20 September 2012 }}</ref>

An extensive programme of redevelopment of these neighborhoods began recently, with demolition of HLM tower blocks and new infrastructure having been built, especially for schools. In 2009, the public transport network of the Amiens agglomeration was significantly modified.