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This paper discusses the implications of Guattari's concept of metamodeling, used to set up an emergent methods design, in a study on neighborhood images and urban development. Related to a theoretical background coming from Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy, metamodeling is used as a conceptual tool that enables the creation of a flexible and adaptable methods design, which draws on methods that are not completely fixed at the beginning of the research but rather developed in an iterative way. By investigating the questions of how neighborhood images emerge and how they perform citizens’ everyday lives, we developed a methodological dispositive composed of four methods—one based on the use of photography, a second based on drawings, a third based on qualitative geographic information system (GIS), and a fourth that is a quantitative survey—that revealed multiple facets of neighborhood images.

Dans cet article, nous discutons l’hypothèse d’un tournant urbain de la Banque mondiale, hypothèse formulée à la suite de la publication du World Development Report 2009 (WDR). À travers une analyse quantitative et qualitative des WDR de 1978 à 2010, complétée par des entretiens auprès d’experts de la Banque mondiale, notre approche vise à décrire et à expliquer la relation à la ville de cette influente organisation internationale.