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Maurice Rotival

French planning on a world-scale (Part I)

Bibliographic Data

ID23200714
AuthorsCarola Hein (0000-0003-0551-5778, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume17
Issue3
Pages247-265
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlanning Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-5433 • E-ISSN: 1466-4518
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02665430210129315
OpenAlexW2092765171
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited6

This paper analyses the life and work of the French planner Maurice Rotival through his practical and theoretical work as well as his teachings in cities and regions in Europe, Africa and the Americas. Rotival's plans and projects reflect the influence of major events and changes of the twentieth century - two world wars and the advances in technology and research they promoted, the advent of the automobile, the subsequent urban transformations and large-scale demolitions - and influenced the development of planning in the twentieth century. Through five major steps of Rotival's international career, this article analyses the development of Rotival's pragmatic organic planning doctrine and his regional approach from his experience and training in France at the eve of the First World War, to his subsequent regional and urban planning work in Caracas, New Haven, Europe, Reims and other French cities until the 1980s. By considering Rotival's career as a part of economic globalization at a time when the colonial context was dismantled, the present article highlights the planner's role in societal transformation in collaboration with the e ́lite and demonstrates the growing international exchange of planning ideas in the twentieth century.

Archaeology · Cartography · Civil engineering · Colonialism · Context (archaeology) · Doctrine · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Haven · Planner · Political science · Regional science · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Urban planning · Work (physics) · World War II · Engineering · French Urban and Social Studies · History · Law

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,78
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4

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