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After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that modernizers looked to the home as a site for social engineering and nation-building; designers and advocates of the modern home contributed to the democratization of French society; and the French home of the Trente Glorieuses, as it was built and inhabited, was a hybrid product of architects', planners', and residents' understandings of moder

Sociology of environment --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1990-1999 --- France --- Housing --- Housing policy --- Architecture, Domestic --- Dwellings --- Logement --- Architecture domestique --- Habitations --- History --- Histoire --- Politique gouvernementale --- Social conditions --- Civilization --- Conditions sociales --- Civilisation --- Affordable housing --- Homes --- Houses --- Housing needs --- Residences --- Slum clearance --- Urban housing --- City planning --- Human settlements --- Domiciles --- One-family houses --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture --- Housing and state --- State and housing --- Social policy --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Architecture, Domestic--France--History--20th century. --- Housing policy--France--History--20th century. --- Housing--France--History--20th century. --- Business & Economics --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- architects. --- architecture. --- art of living. --- democracy. --- democratization. --- design textbook. --- french history. --- french home. --- french society. --- generational. --- history. --- home decor. --- interior design. --- life changes. --- modern home. --- modern mass home. --- modernity. --- nation-building. --- political. --- project of modernization. --- rebuilding after the war. --- retrospective. --- right to comfort. --- social engineering. --- sociology. --- suburban. --- village settings. --- ww ii.