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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Christiansen, Rupert.     Subjects     Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891 -- Influence.     Urban renewal -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.     Public works -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.     Paris (France) -- History -- 1848-1870.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Christiansen, Rupert.       by title:      City of light : the ...       by call number:      944.36107 C555c     Search the Web     Christiansen, Rupert.     Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891 -- Influence.     Urban renewal -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.     Public works -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.     Paris (France) -- History -- 1848-1870.       MARC Display

City of light : the making of modern Paris / Rupert Christiansen. by Christiansen, Rupert. Basic Books, 2018. Call #: 944.36107 C555c Subjects Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891 -- Influence.   Urban renewal -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.   Public works -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century.   Paris (France) -- History -- 1848-1870. ISBN:  9781541673397 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  vii, 206 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Louis Napoleon 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. 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"--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 944.36107 C555c Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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