Transforming Paris
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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.
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.
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.
Paris Under Construction
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Author : Jacob Paskins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-07
Paris Under Construction written by Jacob Paskins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-07 with Architecture categories.
During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour immigration and national identity. As new buildings and infrastructure changed the city, building sites revealed the substandard living and working conditions of migrant construction workers in France. Moreover, construction was the touchstone in debates about the dangers of urban life, and triggered action in communities whose districts faced demolition. Paris Under Construction explores the social, political and cultural responses to construction work and urban transformation in the Paris metropolitan region during the 1960s. This examination of a decade of intensive building work considers the ways in which the experience of construction was mediated, produced and reproduced through a range of complex and sometimes contradictory representations. The building sites that produced the new Paris are no longer visible, and were perhaps never intended to be seen, yet different groups closely observed and recorded construction, giving it meanings that went beyond specific building activities. The research draws extensively on French newspaper, television and radio archives, and delves into rarely examined trade union material. Paris Under Construction gives voice to the witnesses of—and participants in—urban transformation who are usually excluded from architectural and urban history.
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.
City Of Light
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Author : Rupert Christiansen
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2018-10-09
City Of Light written by Rupert Christiansen and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with History categories.
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eugène 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.
Another Paris
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Author : Nicolas Le Goff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Another Paris written by Nicolas Le Goff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
How Paris Became Paris
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Author : Joan DeJean
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-03-04
How Paris Became Paris written by Joan DeJean and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.
"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today. Though most people associate the signature characteristics of Paris with the public works of the nineteenth century, Joan DeJean demonstrates that the Parisian model for urban space was in fact invented two centuries earlier, when the first complete design for the French capital was drawn up and implemented. As a result, Paris saw many changes. It became the first city to tear down its fortifications, inviting people in rather than keeping them out. Parisian urban planning showcased new kinds of streets, including the original boulevard, as well as public parks and the earliest sidewalks and bridges without houses. Venues opened for urban entertainment of all kinds, from opera and ballet to a pastime invented in Paris, recreational shopping. Parisians enjoyed the earliest public transportation and street lighting, and Paris became Europe's first great walking city. A century of planned development made Paris both beautiful and exciting. It gave people reasons to be out in public as never before and as nowhere else. And it gave Paris its modern identity as a place that people dreamed of seeing. By 1700, Paris had become the capital that would revolutionize our conception of the city and of urban life.
Building Paris
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Author : David Van Zanten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Building Paris written by David Van Zanten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Architecture categories.
Demonstrates how private architectural enterprise achieved dominance in the building profession in Paris by the end of the 19th century.
Parisian Views
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Author : Shelley Rice
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1999
Parisian Views written by Shelley Rice and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Each of the book's essays is in itself a "Parisian view." The fragmented, layered quality of the text allows the author to avoid making a linear narrative out of a subject that is enriched by multiple perspectives. Yet all of the essays revolve around a central theme: the creation of modern urban space, in both two and three dimensions, and the impact of this space on the lives of those who walked the streets of Paris of the nineteenth century.