Rosemary Wakeman

TL;DR: Wakeman as discussed by the authors examined the ways in which urban landscape and architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public modernization programmes designed to build the new France and found that modern French cities were created from the rivalries and negotiations between a variety of competing interests in the struggle to define contemporary urban life.

TL;DR: The authors focused on the twentieth-century planning debate from the 1920s through the early 1950s, and extracted a master narrative from the cacophony of voices that helps understand how Paris was imagined and invented as a twentieth century city, arguing that an influential planning corpus invented a particularist vision of a progressive, twentieth century capital that is best called nostalgic modernism.

TL;DR: The role of the self-help housing movement within the massive effort of reconstruction and building after the Second World War, from 1945-1954, is discussed in this article. But the authors do not consider the role of women in this movement.