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Cupers, Kenny.

The social project housing postwar France / [electronic resource] : Kenny Cupers. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Building the Banlieue -- 1950s: Projects in the Making -- 1. Streamlining Production -- 2. A Bureaucratic Epistemology -- 1960s: Architecture Meets Social Science -- 3. Animation to the Rescue -- 4. The Expertise of Participation -- 5. Programming the Villes Nouvelles -- 1970s: Consuming Contradictions -- 6. Megastructures in Denial -- 7. The Ultimate Projects -- Conclusion: Where Is the Social Project? -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN: 9781452941059 145294105X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-).
Architecture and society--History--France--20th century.
Architecture and state--History--France--20th century.
Housing--History--France--20th century.
City planning--History--France--20th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT169.F7 / C87 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 363.5/8094409045