Urbanists have long condemned the reconstruction of France after the Great War as a failure. Articulated in the 1920s, this distorted view has largely gone unchallenged and continues to frame the historiography. This article revisits dominant assessments of the post-1918 urban reconstruction and positions the mobilization of French urbanists in the wider transition from war to peace. Urban reconstruction underlined the uncertain nature of the aftermath of the conflict and proved both contested and uneven. While French urbanists imputed its failure to the local populations, this article argues that, if failure there was, it should be laid at their feet. Urbanists proved unable to apprehend the specificities of the post-war reconstruction and of the political economy in which they, as well as the devastated cities, had to operate. As those practitioners floundered, key tenets of urbanist thinking nonetheless prevailed.

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La Cité de demain：战争与重建中的法国城市主义，1914-1928

城市主义者长期以来一直谴责法国在第一次世界大战后的重建是失败的。这种扭曲的观点在 1920 年代被阐明，在很大程度上没有受到挑战，并继续构成史学的框架。本文重新审视了对 1918 年后城市重建的主流评估，并将法国城市主义者的动员置于从战争到和平的更广泛过渡中。城市重建强调了冲突后果的不确定性，并证明是有争议的和不平衡的。虽然法国城市学家将其失败归咎于当地居民，但本文认为，如果确实存在失败，那么应该将其置于他们的脚下。事实证明，城市学家无法理解战后重建的特殊性，以及他们以及遭受破坏的城市必须在其中运作的政治经济的特殊性。