The Paris zone : a cultural history, 1840-1944 / James Cannon, La Trobe University, Australia.

"Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s...

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Main Author: Cannon, James, Ph.D (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • The urban periphery and the Zone before 1870
  • The emergence of the Zone as a metaphor, 1870-1889
  • From metaphor to myth, 1890-1918
  • The Zone between the wars, 1919-1939
  • The death knell of the Zone, 1940-1944.