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City of light : the making of modern Paris
- Title
- City of light : the making of modern Paris / Rupert Christiansen.
- Author
- Christiansen, Rupert
- Publication
- New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, October 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- vii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps; 20 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891 > Influence
- Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891
- 1800-1899
- Urban renewal > France > Paris > History > 19th century
- Public works > France > Paris > History > 19th century
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Public works
- Urban renewal
- HISTORY / Europe / France
- TRAVEL / Europe / France
- Paris (France) > History > 1848-1870
- France > Paris
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFC 19-39
- ISBN
- 9781541673397
- 1541673395
- 9781541673434 (canceled/invalid)
- 1541673433 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018012387
- 40028553027
- OCLC
- 1044768880
- Author
- Christiansen, Rupert, author.
- Title
- City of light : the making of modern Paris / Rupert Christiansen.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, October 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Christiansen, Rupert, author. City of light First edition. New York : Basic Books, 2018 9781541673434 (DLC) 2018033758
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028553027
- Research Call Number
- JFC 19-39