| Titre | Piétons de Babel et de la cité radieuse. Les jeunes intellectuels des années 1930 et la ville | |
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| Auteur | Pascal Balmand | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 8, octobre-décembre 1985 | |
| Page | 31-42 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Pedestrians of Babel and of the City Radiant. Young intellectuals of the 1930s and the city, Pascal Balmand.
When urban residence became the rule in France in the 1930s, the young intellectual generation started to ask questions. It denounced a civilization crisis, held the city responsible for moral decadence, as the place of a serious threat to the balance and integrity of the human being as well as that of artifice. In total disagreement with the « modern » architectural movement, the young intellectuals of the 1930s were closer to the movement of « culturalist » urbanism, represented in France by Gaston Bardet. But just as some 18th century critics of the city, they also conceived of it as a promise of everything possible. Thus, between those nostalgic for a return to the land and the visionaries of the futurist city, the young personalist generation anticipated, in a way, the debates of the post-industrial age. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/xxs_0294-1759_1985_num_8_1_1202 |
