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Rethinking the French City
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Rethinking the French City Hardback - 2008

by Monique Yaari

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This book considers the post-68 French city as a prism through which to understand the contemporary world and France's specificity within it. The reader is invited to join in a series of exploratory strolls through texts, buildings, and neighborhoods, and thereby share in a process of discovery. Zeroing in on international architectural debates, a range of key Parisian exhibitions, and major urban design decisions in Paris, Montpellier, and Lille, Yaari unravels an often-acerbic French critique of both modern and postmodern positions on culture, technology, and the city. This critique-stemming from the competing claims of national identity, the ethics of architecture and display, and an anthropologically informed revision of prevailing views on the city-has sparked in France a passionate search for a third path, which the author proposes to term aprs-moderne. Breaking new ground in the field of French Studies through cultural analysis of the contemporary city, this study brings new insight to scholars and professionals in architecture and urbanism, and will interest all others for whom France and cities in general hold special appeal.

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  • Title Rethinking the French City
  • Author Monique Yaari
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Publication date 2008-01-01
  • ISBN 9789042025004 / 904202500X
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5 x 1.13 in (22.86 x 12.70 x 2.87 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Architectural
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Category Architecture
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.944

About the author

Monique Yaari is a specialist of twentieth-century French literary and cultural studies. For the past decade, her research has focused on the contemporary city. The author of Ironie paradoxale et ironie potique: sur les traces de Gide dans Paludes (Summa Publications, 1988) as well as numerous articles on contemporary French art and architecture, Professor Yaari teaches in the Culture and Civilization option of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

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