City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
by City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
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In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eugè Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a "City of Light" characterized by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new rail stations and department stores, and a new system of public sanitation. City of Light charts this fifteen-year project of urban renewal which -- despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption, and bankruptcy -- set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and created the enduring landscape of modern Paris now so famous around the globe.
Lively and engaging, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris became Paris.
Product Details
- Basic Books Brand
- Oct 9, 2018 Pub Date:
- 9781541673397 ISBN-13:
- 1541673395 ISBN-10:
- 224 Pages
- English Language
- 7.6 in * 5.2 in * 1 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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