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Haussmann Paris Transformed
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Author : Howard Saalman
language : en
Publisher: George Braziller
Release Date : 1971
Haussmann Paris Transformed written by Howard Saalman and has been published by George Braziller this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with City planning categories.
Transforming Paris
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Author : David P. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Transforming Paris written by David P. Jordan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and revolutionary Paris -- over-crowded, dangerous, and filthy -- were razed, and from the rubble a modern city of light and air emerged. This triumphant rebuilding was chiefly the work of one man, Baron Georges Haussmann, Napoleon III's Prefect of the Seine. It was Haussmann's task to assert, in stone, the power and permanence of Paris, to show the world that it was the seat of an empire of mythic proportions. To this end, he imposed grand visual perspectives, as when he transformed Napoleon I's Arc de Triomphe into a magnificent twelve-armed star from which radiated the broadest boulevards of Europe. Below ground, his modern sewer system became one of the wonders of the civilized world, eagerly toured by royalty and commoners alike. Haussmann's mandate was not only to create an impression of grandeur but to secure the city for better control by government. By creating formal spaces where there had previously been a maze of chaotic streets, Haussmann opened Paris to effective police control and thwarted the recurrent demonstration of its well-known revolutionary fervor. The determined and autocratic Haussmann imprinted rational order and bourgeois civility on the unruly city which had for so long simmered with riot and insurrection. Though he planted chestnut trees, installed gas lights, rebuilt the water supply, and improved transportation and housing, Haussmann's labors were (and remain) controversial. He forced tens of thousands of the poor from the center of the city, and destroyed significant parts of old Paris. But in this important new biography David Jordan reminds us that Haussmann was not immune to the charms of the old city. By leaving some areas intact, the Baron achieved the grand effect of implanting a modern city boldly within an ancient one. Here, at last, Haussmann's labors are given the aesthetic as well as the historical appreciation they deserve.
Haussmann
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Author : Michel Carmona
language : en
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Release Date : 2002
Haussmann written by Michel Carmona and has been published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
"In 1853, Napoleon III appointed to the Paris city hall an administrator who had already proved himself in a number of provincial posts, most notably at Bordeaux, and whose name would come to symbolize the modernization of Paris. In barely fifteen years, Baron Haussmann completed the enormous task entrusted to him by the emperor: to transform an unruly capital into a prestigious metropolis. Dozens of building sites were opened in the streets of the capital; thousands of houses were pulled down; wide straight boulevards were cut through the city with blocks of apartments built alongside them; new theatres and churches sprang up along with public gardens; water, sewage, and gas systems were modernized." "Mr. Carmona has exhaustively examined the historical record and has written a superb biography that will be welcomed by all who have savored the avenues, parks, public buildings, monuments, and byways of the City of Light. Haussman will be a treasure too for architects, urban planners, and those readers who are interested in the life of great cities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Paris Reborn
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Author : Stephane Kirkland
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2013-04-02
Paris Reborn written by Stephane Kirkland and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with History categories.
Stephane Kirkland gives an engrossing account of Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and one of the greatest transformations of a major city in modern history Traditionally known as a dirty, congested, and dangerous city, 19th Century Paris, France was transformed in an extraordinary period from 1848 to 1870, when the government launched a huge campaign to build streets, squares, parks, churches, and public buildings. The Louvre Palace was expanded, Notre-Dame Cathedral was restored and the French masterpiece of the Second Empire, the Opéra Garnier, was built. A very large part of what we see when we visit Paris today originates from this short span of twenty-two years. The vision for the new Nineteenth Century Paris belonged to Napoleon III, who had led a long and difficult climb to absolute power. But his plans faltered until he brought in a civil servant, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, to take charge of the implementation. Heedless of controversy, at tremendous cost, Haussmann pressed ahead with the giant undertaking until, in 1870, his political enemies brought him down, just months before the collapse of the whole regime brought about the end of an era. Paris Reborn is a must-read for anyone who ever wondered how Paris, the city universally admired as a standard of urban beauty, became what it is.
Paris Haussmann
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Author : Benoît Jallon
language : en
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
Release Date : 2021-02-15
Paris Haussmann written by Benoît Jallon and has been published by Park Publishing (WI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-15 with categories.
First published in 2017 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, this widely praised and still much sought-after book becomes available again in a new edition. It offers an analytical review from today's perspective of the French capital's profound transformation during the late nineteenth century under the direction of Georges Eugène Baron Haussmann. Paris Haussmann: A Model's Relevance explores and analyzes the characteristics of Paris's homogenous yet fluid cityscape, the result of a lengthy process of changes and evolutions, even in recent times. Research was conducted at all levels to classify and compare roadways, identify public spaces, and organize the blocks and buildings according to their current geometry. For the first time, the qualities of the Haussmann model have been set forth to show how they grapple with the same challenges that contemporary cities face. Topical essays feature alongside rich illustrative material, comprising photographs by celebrated photographer Cyrille Weiner, site plans and maps, floor plans and sections, axonometric projections, and various graphics.
Planning Paris Before Haussmann
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Author : Nicholas Papayanis
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2004-10-13
Planning Paris Before Haussmann written by Nicholas Papayanis and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-13 with Architecture categories.
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Haussmann Or The Distinction
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Author : Paul LaFarge
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Haussmann Or The Distinction written by Paul LaFarge and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Fiction categories.
Paul La Farge's stunning, imaginative novel about the great architect of Paris "full of artful prose, wit, and provocative ideas.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who demolished and rebuilt Paris in the middle of the nineteenth century, was the first urbanist of the modern era--and perhaps the greatest. He presided over two decades of riches, peace, and progress in a city the likes of which no one had ever seen before, with boulevards monumentally conceived and brilliantly lit, clean water, public transportation, and sewers that were the envy of every nation in the world. Yet there is a story that, on his deathbed, Haussmann wished all his work undone. "Would that it had died with me!" he is supposed to have said. What is the secret of the baron's last regret? To answer this question, Haussmann tells the story of Madeleine, a foundling who grew up in the magical, chaotic world that Haussmann destroyed; of de Fonce, one of the great artistes démolisseurs who tore Paris down and sold its rubble as antiques; and of a three-sided affair that pits love against ambition, architecture against flesh, and the living Parisians against Haussmann's unbuilt masterpiece, the Railroad of the Dead. Although steeped in history, Paul La Farge's Haussmann, or the Distinction is a novel not bound by fact; it is an account of the hidden, sometimes fantastical life of the nineteenth century, a work that will make readers think of Borges as well as Balzac; it is a view of cities, of love, and of history itself from the other side of the mirror.
The Man Who Made Paris Paris
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Author : Willet Weeks
language : en
Publisher: Allison and Busby
Release Date : 1999
The Man Who Made Paris Paris written by Willet Weeks and has been published by Allison and Busby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This well-researched biography, illustrated with archival and modern photographs, explores the life of the civil servant who masterminded the transformation of Paris from a disease-ridden Medieval city into the City of Light.
Transforming Paris
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Author : David P. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Transforming Paris written by David P. Jordan and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.
Built in only 17 years in the middle of the 19th century, the Paris we know today was chiefly the work of one man, Baron Georges Haussmann, Napoleon III's Prefect of the Seine. Jordan shows how the single-minded and autocratic Haussmann imprinted rational order and bourgeois civility on the unruly city that had for so long simmered with riot and insurrection.
Paris City Of Dreams
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Author : Mary McAuliffe
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-04-09
Paris City Of Dreams written by Mary McAuliffe and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-09 with History categories.
"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred Review Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city of today. Together, Napoleon III and his right-hand man, Georges Haussmann, completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades—a breathtaking achievement made possible not only by the emperor’s vision and Haussmann’s determination but by the regime’s unrelenting authoritarianism, augmented by the booming economy that Napoleon fostered. Yet a number of Parisians refused to comply with the restrictions that censorship and entrenched institutional taste imposed. Mary McAuliffe follows the lives of artists such as Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Claude Monet, as well as writers such as Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, while from exile, Victor Hugo continued to fire literary broadsides at the emperor he detested. McAuliffe brings to life a pivotal era encompassing not only the physical restructuring of Paris but also the innovative forms of banking and money-lending that financed industrialization as well as the city’s transformation. This in turn created new wealth and lavish excess, even while producing extreme poverty. More deeply, change was occurring in the way people looked at and understood the world around them, given the new ease of transportation and communication, the popularization of photography, and the emergence of what would soon be known as Impressionism in art and Naturalism and Realism in literature—artistic yearnings that would flower in the Belle Epoque. Napoleon III, whose reign abruptly ended after he led France into a devastating war against Germany, has been forgotten. But the Paris that he created has endured, brought to vivid life through McAuliffe’s rich illustrations and evocative narrative.