The social project [electronic resource] : housing postwar France / Kenny Cupers.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781452941059
- 145294105X
- ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
- ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-)
- Architecture and society -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Architecture and state -- France -- History -- 20th century
- Housing -- France -- History -- 20th century
- City planning -- France -- History -- 20th century
- 363.5/8094409045 23
- HT169.F7 C87 2014
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.
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