Their efforts reinforced local differences in the immediate post-war countrysides.
Outside this road, a green belt (100 metres wide) separated the city and surrounding countryside.
The press, streets, monuments, transportation, and countryside became a vast set on to which aperitif brands and their imagery could be projected.
A photograph graphically captures the scene as do others that attest to the neglect of the countryside in the same period.
But the difference of the constituencies was not one between mountain and coast but, primarily, one between city and countryside.
The ravages of coast and countryside, the toll on vegetation, crops and buildings, were mediated by the television screen.
This is a daunting prospect, not only because of the immense research programme implied but the complex, disparate nature of the non-agricultural countryside.
I was struck by these writers' unswerving determination to cling to their ideas in the face of the evident contradictions they encountered in the countryside.
