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Urban planning in France has, on the whole, been shaped by necessity (the scale of the rural exodus towards the cities), ideology (the anarchy of the market ought to give way to planning), and conflicts inside the French administration (resulting from esprit de corps).
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Mény, Y. (1982). Urban Planning in France: Dirigisme and Pragmatism, 1945–80. In: McKay, D.H. (eds) Planning and Politics in Western Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16897-2_2
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