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Author Rudolph, Nicole C.

Title At home in postwar France : modern mass housing and the right to comfort / Nicole C. Rudolph.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Berghahn monographs in French studies ; volume 14
Berghahn monographs in French studies ; v. 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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-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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Language English.
Subject Housing -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Housing.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Housing policy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Housing policy.
Architecture, Domestic -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic.
Dwellings -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Dwellings.
France -- Social conditions -- 1945-1995.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1945-1995
Subject France -- Civilization -- 1945-
Civilization.
Chronological Term 1945-
Since 1900
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rudolph, Nicole C. At home in postwar France 9781782385875 (DLC) 2014033559 (OCoLC)896862036
ISBN 9781782385882 (electronic book)
1782385886 (electronic book)
9781782385875
1782385878