City of light the making of modern paris /anglais

• Date de parution : 09/10/2018
• Editeur : Little Brown Usa
• EAN : 9781541673397
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : (-)
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Histoire
• Thème : Histoire
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

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-Eugè Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine.... Voir plus

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-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.