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Rudolph Nicole C. |
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At home in postwar France : modern mass housing and the right to comfort / / Nicole C. Rudolph |
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Collana |
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Berghahn Monographs in French Studies ; ; Volume 14 |
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Housing - France - History - 20th century |
Housing policy - France - History - 20th century |
Architecture, Domestic - France - History - 20th century |
Dwellings - France - History - 20th century |
France Social conditions 1945-1995 |
France Civilization 1945- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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- |
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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 |
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