Affiliation:
1. 0000000419367291University of Aberdeen
Abstract
Post-war France was reshaped by a sustained period of spatial planning and modernization. This was particularly so during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958‐69), as the country positioned itself as a modern European nation after decolonization. In its approach and execution,
French spatial planning represented the sort of imperious state intervention critiqued by radical spatial theorists such as Henri Lefebvre. Yet it remained the case that the planners articulated a rich vision of France’s future, filled with space and light. Not only that, but they had
the means to bring their vision into being. During the mid-1960s, the building of New Towns became central to their thinking. This article revisits spatial planning as a realm of the imagination and considers how the nation’s future was portrayed in textual and visual forms. It explores
how the translation of dreams into built realities became a source of political tension, and how those tensions found public expression in the visual media.
Funder
British Academy and the Carnegie Trust
Subject
Urban Studies,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Cultural Studies
Cited by
2 articles.
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