The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the French Ministry of Culture, which contributed nancial assistance to the publication of this book. Ouvrage publi avec laide du Ministre franais charg de la Culture Centre national du livre.
The University of Minnesota Press acknowledges the work of Edward Dimendberg, editorial consultant, on this project. The map in Appendix B was created by Holger Sauer. Originally published in French as Pas pas. Essai sur le cheminement quotidien en milieu urbain by ditions du Seuil in as part of the Espacements series edited by Franoise Choay. Copyright ditions du Seuil. Copyright by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Translation of: Pas pas. Includes bibliographical references and index. City and town lifeFrance. Sociology, UrbanFrance. Urbanization France. City planningFrance. Itinerary 1. Arteries, Impasses, Side Streets 2.
An Inhabitant Rhetoric: Figures of Walking 3. The Body of Inhabitant Expression 5. To republish orwhat amounts to the sameto translate a book, written a quarter century ago in reaction to a precisely dated and limited context, presupposes that the document in question would either present some clear historical value or had been, from the outset, polysemous in character, the bearer of multiple readings.
Both these hypotheses apply to Step by Step. This work by Jean-Franois Augoyard, which arose from his academic dissertation, was, to borrow a term familiar to him, inscribed within the technocratic climate of intense urbanization that, in France, had witnessed the transition from high-density housing complexes1to new towns. Never had urban planners and architects in our country had comparable repower at their disposal.
