View of the Plateau Beaubourg and Les Halles, c.¬1960.

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Description: View of the Plateau Beaubourg and Les Halles

TitleView of the Plateau Beaubourg and Les Halles

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Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1960

Object typePhotograph

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SubjectsCentral business districts--France--ParisCity planning--France--Paris--HistoryParis (France)--History--1944-

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Chapter One
Paris 1968: “Reform Yes, Masquerade No”

Francesco Dal Co

Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument

~On May 29, 1968, the French prime minister Georges Pompidou was in Paris, but he did not know—so the story goes—where the president of the Fifth Republic was at the time. General Charles de Gaulle, president since 1959, had left the city without informing even his closest aides.

Author

Francesco Dal Co

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-14

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00259.001

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture--France--Paris--History--20th centuryRiots--France--Paris--History--20th centuryCentre Georges PompidouModern movement (Architecture)--20th centuryCity planning--France--Paris--History--20th centuryArchitecture, Modern--France--20th century

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