The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958University of Chicago Press, 15 dec. 2009 - 416 pagini The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and ’50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city’s streets overflowed with ritual, drama, and spectacle. With frequent strikes and protests, young people and students on parade, North Africans arriving in the capital of the French empire, and radio and television shows broadcast live from the streets, Paris continued to be vital terrain. |
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1 Paris in the 1950s | 19 |
2 The Landscape of Populism | 62 |
3 Public Space and Confrontation | 106 |
4 Spatial Imagination and the AvantGarde | 162 |
5 Paris as Cinematic Space | 204 |
6 The Left Bank | 241 |
7 Planning Paris | 289 |
Constructing the Paris of Tomorrow | 341 |
Notes | 349 |
Bibliography | 377 |
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