French urban planning, 1940-1968
Subtitle: the construction and deconstruction of an authoritarian system
By: W. Brian Newsome.
Series: Studies in modern European history -- v. 61
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433104008
Subjects: City planning -- France -- History -- 20th century; Housing policy -- France -- History -- 20th century; Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- France; Urbanization -- France -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crisis of housing and town planning : second empire and third republic; title: Vichy France : the establishment of authoritarian techniques of urban planning; title: Reconstruction and town planning under the provisional government and the fourth republic; title: Front reconstruction to new construction : overcoming the postwar housing crisis; title: The evolution of theories of democratization : the work of Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe; title: From propaganda to participation : the evolution of the MRU's marketing strategy; title: The democratization of architectural and urban planning : the gaullist republic.