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Paris Under Construction - Building Sites and Urban Transformation in the 1960s (Hardcover)
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Paris Under Construction - Building Sites and Urban Transformation in the 1960s (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
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During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that
expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour
immigration and national identity. As new buildings and
infrastructure changed the city, building sites revealed the
substandard living and working conditions of migrant construction
workers in France. Moreover, construction was the touchstone in
debates about the dangers of urban life, and triggered action in
communities whose districts faced demolition. Paris Under
Construction explores the social, political and cultural responses
to construction work and urban transformation in the Paris
metropolitan region during the 1960s. This examination of a decade
of intensive building work considers the ways in which the
experience of construction was mediated, produced and reproduced
through a range of complex and sometimes contradictory
representations. The building sites that produced the new Paris are
no longer visible, and were perhaps never intended to be seen, yet
different groups closely observed and recorded construction, giving
it meanings that went beyond specific building activities. The
research draws extensively on French newspaper, television and
radio archives, and delves into rarely examined trade union
material. Paris Under Construction gives voice to the witnesses
of-and participants in-urban transformation who are usually
excluded from architectural and urban history.
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