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Rethinking the French City: Architecture, Dwelling, and Display After 1968

Rethinking the French City: Architecture, Dwelling, and Display After 1968

Yaari, Monique

Hardcover

French HistoryArchitecture HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 904202500X
ISBN13: 9789042025004
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 491
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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