between the house and the road is called l'usoir [fr]. Until the 1970s, the usoir was used to store farming tools, firewood, or manure. Today this area is...

the conventional urban configuration. The attached farms feature wide "usoirs", or passageways, between the street and the façades of the houses. The...

today, is marked by this activity: narrow streets, almost non-existent usoirs, small houses with vaulted cellars often accessible from the street, additional...