Perret isn’t the only architect to have redrawn Le Havre. Oscar Niemeyer designed Le Volcan – a hulking, volcano-shaped cultural centre in the city centre (locals call it “the yoghurt pot”).

As you walk through Le Havre it’s hard to imagine that 80% of it was destroyed through bombing in the Second World War. Full of individual architecture marvels, the town was re-built on ...

Post-war constructeur Auguste Perret probably punched the air from beyond the grave on the July day in 2005 that Unesco announced it was listing Le Havre in France for post-war Modern Urban Planning.

Review Culture At 'Le Havre,' A Rue-Tinted Fable Of Time And Transit October 20, 20116:06 PM ET By Mark Jenkins ...