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Step by step : everyday walks in a French urban housing project / Jean-François Augoyard ; foreword by Françoise Choay ; translated and with an afterword by David Ames Curtis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Augoyard, Jean François, 1941-
- Standardized Title:
- Pas à pas. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--France.
- City and town life.
- Sociology, Urban--France.
- Sociology, Urban.
- France.
- Urbanization--France.
- Urbanization.
- City planning--France.
- City planning.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- The street riots that swept through France in the fall of 2005 focused worldwide attention on the plight of the country's immigrants and their living conditions in the suburbs many of them call home. Then, as now, the disparities between the planners' utopian visions and the experiences of the inhabitants raised concerns, generating a number of sociological studies of the "new towns." One of the most sophisticated and significant of these critiques is Jean-Francois Augoyard's Step by Step, which was originally published in France in 1979 and famously influenced Michel de Certeau's analysis of everyday life. Step by Step is based on in-depth interviews Augoyard conducted with the inhabitants of l'Arlequin, a new town on the outskirts of Grenoble. In closely scrutinizing everyday life in l'Arlequin, Step by Step draws a fascinating portrait of the richness of social life in the new towns and sheds light on the current living conditions of France's immigrants.
- Contents:
- Arteries, impasses, side streets
- An inhabitant rhetoric: figures of walking
- An inhabitant rhetoric: the code of appropriation
- The body of inhabitant expression
- On the imaginary ground of inhabitant expression
- Conclusion: a cosmogenetic point.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Pas à pas.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816645909
- 0816645906
- 9780816645916
- 0816645914
- OCLC:
- 152580742
- Online:
- Publisher description
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