Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism During Les Trente Glorieuses

by Nicholas Bullock

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in 1940 to a place at the centre of the new Europe.

The first part of the book examines the scale of transformation, showing how architecture and urbanism both served the cause...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367556502
• ISBN13: 9780367556501
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 9.98 lbs.