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 "Modernizing the Provincial City,"
Rosemary Wakeman examines the ways in which urban landscape and
architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public
modernization programs designed to build "the new France." Her
study is unique in treating modernization not in the conventional
sense of a fixed, abstract model superimposed over defenseless
provincial cities, but rather as a matter of unpredictable
change.
Modernism in France was a politically determined process enacted
by the national government and by corporate interests. Yet it
encountered historically articulated urban communities that acted
as their own agents in the process of transformation. Wakeman's
argument is that modern French cities were created from the
rivalries and negotiations between a variety of competing interests
in the struggle to define contemporary urban life.
This inquiry into the forces shaping modern French history also
contributes to the discussion taking place among sociologists,
geographers, urbanists, and historians about the modern condition,
the capitalist economic system, and the complex matrix of modern
urban life.
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