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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Papayanis, Nicholas. Planning Paris before Haussmann. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)645783487 |
Named Person: | Georges Eugène Haussmann, baron; Georges Eugène Haussmann, baron; Georges Eugène Haussmann, baron; Georges Eugène Haussmann, baron; Giovanni Paris; Georges Eugène Haussmann, baron; Georges Eugène Haussmann; Henri Siméon |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Papayanis |
ISBN: | 0801879302 9780801879302 |
OCLC Number: | 54391951 |
Description: | xiii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Eighteenth-century roots of modern planning -- 2. "Functionalist planners" before Haussmann -- 3. The Saint-Simonians and Paris -- 4. The Fourierists and the new Paris -- 5. Planning the Paris underground -- 6. The Simeon Commission. |
Responsibility: | Nicholas Papayanis. |
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Abstract:
Long before Baron Haussmann remade Paris, several generations of intellectuals, planners, architects, engineers, and politicians envisioned a radical transformation of medieval Paris into a modern city that would be beautiful, rational, sanitary, and responsive to the needs of commerce and industry.
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An excellent introduction to just how Haussman succeeded in revamping Paris. Bookwatch 2005 An extremely ambitious book, which draws on the author's expertise... A promising pathway for future research. -- Colin Jones H-France Review 2005 Papayanis challenges the originality of Haussmann's ideas. -- Ian Germani Canadian Journal of History 2005 Papayanis's important book urges us to seek out these voices so as to learn more about how others imagined - and experienced - early nineteenth-century Paris. -- Victoria E. Thompson Journal of Modern History 2007 Read more...
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