Modernizing the provincial city : Toulouse, 1945-1975 / Rosemary Wakeman.

Main entry:

Wakeman, Rosemary.

Title & Author:

Modernizing the provincial city : Toulouse, 1945-1975 / Rosemary Wakeman.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.

Description:

xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index.
1. Red Flower of Summer: Toulouse before 1945 -- 2. Regionalism, Municipalism, and Modernization -- 3. Constructing Modernism in the 1950s -- 4. The City of the Future: Planning in the 1960s -- 5. The City as Bazaar: Tradition, Modernization, and Economic Culture in the 1950s -- 6. Toulouse as Industrial Capital -- 7. Gentrification and the Capitalist Landscape -- Conclusion: Constructing the New Toulouse.

Summary:

Toulouse is one of the most striking examples of urban modernization both in France and in all of Europe. It exemplifies the unparalleled changes that transformed France into an urban nation after World War II. In Modernizing the Provincial City, Rosemary Wakeman examines the ways in which urban landscape and architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public modernization programs designed to build "the new France." Her study is unique in treating modernization not in the conventional sense of a fixed, abstract model superimposed on defenseless provincial cities, but rather as a matter of unpredictable change.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0674580729
9780674580725
0674437047
9780674437043

Subject:

City planning France Toulouse History 20th century.
City planning
Economic history
Entwicklungsplanung
Stadsplanning.
Stedelijk beleid.
Stadsvernieuwing.
City planning France History 20th century.
Déconcentration administrative France 1945-1970.
Villes Effets des innovations France Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
Politique urbaine France Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) 1945-1970.
Urbanisme France Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) 1945-1990.
Toulouse (France) Economic conditions.
France Toulouse
Toulouse
Toulouse (France) City planning 20th century.
Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) Conditions économiques 1945-1970.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

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Call No.: ID:97-B2834
Status: Available

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