UID:
almafu_9959739577902883
Format:
1 online resource (271 p.)
ISBN:
1-78238-588-6
Series Statement:
Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ; Volume 14
Content:
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of moder
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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At Home in Postwar France; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I - Modern Homes for a Modern Nation; Chapter 1 - Building Homes, Building a Nation: State Experiments in Modern Living, 1945-1952; Chapter 2 - Designing for the Classless Society: Modernist Architects and the ""Art of Living""; Chapter 3 - The Salon des Arts Ménagers: Teaching Women How to Make the Modern Home; Part II - Mass Homes for a Changing Society; Chapter 4 - Housing for the Greatest Number: The Housing Crisis and the Cellule d'Habitation, 1953-1958
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Chapter 5 - ""Who Is the Author of a Dwelling?"" From User to Inhabitant, 1959-1961Chapter 6 - Beyond the Functionalist Cell to the Urban Fabric, 1966-1973; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78238-587-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9781782385882
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385882?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782385882
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782385882?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782385882
