Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Crises of Housing and Urban Planning under the Second Empire and the Third Republic -- Authoritarian Programs of Urban Planning under the Vichy Regime -- Reconstruction and Urban Planning under the Provisional Government and the Fourth Republic -- From Reconstruction to New Construction: Overcoming the Postwar Housing Crisis -- The Evolution of Theories of Democratization: The Work of Paul- Henry Chombart de Lauwe -- From Propaganda to Participation: The Evolution of the Marketing Strategies of the Ministry of Reconstruction -- The Democratization of Architectural and Urban Planning under the Gaullist Republic -- Index.