CITY OF LIGHT

Beskrivelse

A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series.

Haussmann’s renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a ‘City of Light’ characterised 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 a fifteen-year project of urban renewal which,  despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption and bankruptcy would set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and create the enduring and globally familiar layout of modern Paris.