Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse 1945-1975

By Rosemary Wakeman

Toulouse is one of the most striking examples of urban modernization both in France and in all of Europe. It exemplifies the unparalleled changes that transformed France into an urban nation after World War II. In this book, Rosemary Wakeman examines the ways in which urban landscape and architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public modernization programmes designed to build the new France. Her study treats modernization not in the conventional sense of a fixed, abstract model superimposed over defenceless provincial cities, but rather as a matter of unpredictable change.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674580729
• ISBN13: 9780674580725
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"