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Rethinking the French City

Rethinking the French City

Architecture, Dwelling, and Display after 1968

by Monique Yaari
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/2008

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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 apres-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.
ISBN:
9789042025004
9789042025004
Category:
Art & design styles: Postmodernism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-01-2008
Publisher:
Brill
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
491
Dimensions (mm):
235x155x33mm
Weight:
0.95kg

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