TY  - BOOK
AU  - Busbea,Larry
TI  - Topologies: the urban utopia in France, 1960-1970 
SN  - 9780262026116 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - NA9198.P2 B87 2007
U1  - 711.40944361 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - City planning
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Spatial culture in France, 1960-1970 --; 2; Spatial urbanism and mobile architecture --; 3; The conception and reception of the Groupe International D'Architecture prospective --; 4; "Paris sur Paris" : spatial urbanism and prospective planning culture --; 5; Topological polemics --; 6; Integrations
N2  - "In this first study of the French avant-garde tendency known as spatial urbanism, Larry Busbea analyzes projects by artists and architects (including the most famous spatial practitioner, Yona Friedman) and explores texts (many of which have never before been translated from the French) by Michel Ragon, the influential founder of the Groupe International d'Architecture Prospective (GIAP), Victor Vasarely, and others."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -