The Social Project: Housing Postwar France
Author:   Kenny Cupers ,  Kenny Cupers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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Pages:   424
Publication Date:   01 April 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kenny Cupers ,  Kenny Cupers (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.420kg
ISBN:  

9780816689644


ISBN 10:   0816689644
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   01 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents AbbreviationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Building the Banlieue 1950s: Projects in the Making1. Streamlining Production2. A Bureaucratic Epistemology 1960s: Architecture Meets Social Science3. Animation to the Rescue4. The Expertise of Participation5. Programming the Villes Nouvelles 1970s: Consuming Contradictions6. Megastructures in Denial7. The Ultimate Projects Conclusion: Where Is the Social Project? NotesIndex

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"""A thorough history of the development of post-World War II mass housing in France.""—The Culture Machine"


A thorough history of the development of post-World War II mass housing in France. -The Culture Machine


A thorough history of the development of post-World War II mass housing in France. --The Culture Machine


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Kenny Cupers is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is coauthor of Spaces of Uncertainty and editor of Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture.

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