Modernising Post-war France : Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses (Paperback)

Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Architecture, Urbanism and theTrente Glorieuses Part 1:Modernisation Takes Command: From Austerity to Affluence 1. Reconstruction 1945?56: rebuilding or modernisation? 2. Industrialising the building industry 3. Thegrands ensemblesand the modernisation of housing, 1953?62 4. Modern France at home: shaping the new domestic ideal, 1953?63 5. Public architecture of the 1950s: towards a new architecture for state and industry 6. ‘15,000 hectares to reconquer’: the struggle to modernise Paris, 1955?65 7. Modernising the Paris region: from the SDAU to the New Towns, 1965?75 Part 2: Opposing Modernisation: From Resistance to Revolt 8. Modernism versus modernisation: the Unite d’habitation at Marseille 9. Radicals and opposition to the modern city in the 1960s 10. Revolt and the search for new directions, 1968?73 Epilogue: 1975, France transformed Image Credits Index