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- Title
OBJECTS OF DISPUTE: Planning, Discourse, and State Power in Post-War France.
- Authors
Welch, Edward
- Abstract
During the presidency of Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969), state-led spatial planning transformed the Paris region. The aim of the Schéma directeur d'aménagement et d'urbanisme de la région de Paris (1965) was to improve urban life through modernization; but its scale and ambition meant that it came to represent the hubris of state power. This article examines the role of discourse and narrative in state planning. It explores the role of planning discourses in the production of space, as well as stories told about planning by the planners and those who live with their actions. It investigates perceptions of power in post-war France, placing the Gaullist view of the state as a force for good in the context of contemporary critiques of state power. Addressing the relationship between power, resistance, and critique, it sees the environments produced by spatial planning as complex objects of dispute, enmeshed in conflicting hopes and visions of the future.
- Subjects
CERGY-Pontoise (France); CENTRAL economic planning; POWER (Social sciences); GAULLISM; GAULLE, Charles de, 1890-1970; FRENCH politics &; government, 1958-1969; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
French Politics, Culture & Society, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 2, p103
- ISSN
1537-6370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/fpcs.2018.360205