Bibliograph

City of light, the making of modern Paris, Rupert Christiansen

Type

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City of light, the making of modern Paris, Rupert Christiansen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

City of light

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1044768880

Responsibility statement

Rupert Christiansen

Sub title

the making of modern Paris

Summary

"In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform 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 railway 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. A lively and engaging read, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris became Paris"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Louis Napoléon and the Second Empire -- The Problem of Paris -- Marvels of the New Babylon -- Pleasures of the New Babylon -- Haussmann's Downfall -- The End of the Second Empire -- Paris's Civil War -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

Classification