The Société Française des Urbanistes and the Invention of Urbanism

This dissertation demonstrates that it was the Société Française des Urbanistes (SFU) that invented urbanism in the interwar period, rooting it in Henri Bergson’s theories of creative evolution and Paul Vidal de la Blache’s principles of human geography. Scholars have historically overlooked this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: El Hayek, Chantal
Other Authors: Jarzombek, Mark
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152717