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Purseigle, Pierre (2022) La Cité de demain. French urbanists in war and reconstruction, 1914-1928. French History, 35 (4). pp. 505-531. doi:10.1093/fh/crab054 ISSN 0269-1191.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crab054
Abstract
Urbanists have long condemned the reconstruction of France after the Great War as a failure. Articulated in the 1920s, this distorted view has largely gone unchallenged and continues to frame the historiography. This article revisits dominant assessments of the post-1918 urban reconstruction and positions the mobilisation of French urbanists in the wider transition from war to peace. Urban reconstruction underlined the uncertain nature of the aftermath of the conflict and proved both contested and uneven. While French urbanists imputed its failure to the local populations, this article argues that if failure there was, it should be laid at their feet. Urbanists proved unable to apprehend to the specificities of the post-war reconstruction and of the political economy in which they, as well as the devastated cities, had to operate. As those practitioners floundered, key tenets of urbanist thinking nonetheless prevailed.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Postwar reconstruction -- France, Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- France, World War, 1914-1918 -- Destruction and pillage -- France, Land use, Urban -- Planning -- France, City planning -- France, Historic preservation -- France -- History -- 20th century, Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction -- France -- History -- 20th century. | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | French History | ||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0269-1191 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 20 January 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 35 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 505-531 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/fh/crab054 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in French History following peer review. The version of record Pierre Purseigle, La Cité de demain: French urbanism in war and reconstruction, 1914–1928, French History, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 505–531, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crab054 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 December 2021 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 January 2023 | ||||||
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