Rethinking the French city : architecture, dwelling, and display after 1968 / Monique Yaari.

Main entry:

Yaari, Monique.

Title & Author:

Rethinking the French city : architecture, dwelling, and display after 1968 / Monique Yaari.

Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

Description:

xxxi, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Architecture, technology, culture ; 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-480) and index.
Debates : aesthetics, society, identity. Modern/postmodern -- Elsewhere, perhaps, or the "après-moderne" -- Regional capitals : the north-south axis. Montepellier -- Lille -- The national capital : center and periphery, looking eastward. Beaubourg -- Display wars -- Belleville -- Mending the margins, mixing the cultures. The urban park of La Villette.
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Summary:

This book considers the post-68 French city as a prism through which to understand the contemporary world and France's specificity within it. The reader is invited to join in a series of exploratory strolls through texts, buildings, and neighborhoods, and thereby share in a process of discovery. Zeroing in on international architectural debates, a range of key Parisian exhibitions, and major urban design decisions in Paris, Montpellier, and Lille, Yaari unravels an often-acerbic French critique of both modern and postmodern positions on culture, technology, and the city. This critique--stemming from the competing claims of national identity, the ethics of architecture and display, and an anthropologically informed revision of prevailing views on the city--has sparked in France a passionate search for a third path, which the author proposes to term après-moderne . Breaking new ground in the field of French Studies through cultural analysis of the contemporary city, this study brings new insight to scholars and professionals in architecture and urbanism, and will interest all others for whom France and cities in general hold special appeal.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

904202500X
9789042025004

Subject:

City planning France History 20th century.
City planning France History 21st century.
Architecture and society France History 20th century.
Architecture and society France History 21st century.
Architecture et société France Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société France Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture and society.
City planning.
Architektur
Stadtplanung
Cities and towns France 20th century History.
Cities and towns France 21st century History.
Architecture France History 20th century.
Architecture France History 21st century.
France.
Frankreich

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Architecture, technology, culture ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265989
Call No.: BIB 197511
Status: Available

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