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Haussmann : his life and times, and the making of modern Paris / Michel Carmona ; translated from the French by Patrick Camiller.
Fine Arts Library DC280.5.H3 C3713 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carmona, Michel.
- Standardized Title:
- Haussmann. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891.
- Haussmann, Georges Eugène.
- City planning--France--Paris--History.
- City planning.
- Urban renewal.
- History.
- France--Paris.
- Urban renewal--France--Paris--History.
- France--Officials and employees--Biography.
- France.
- France--Politics and government--1789-1815.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : I. R. Dee, 2002.
- Summary:
- Mr. Carmona sets the life of Baron Haussmann, the famous ""architect"" of modern Paris, against the background of nineteenth-century European society. He looks at the problems of urban existence faced by the city of Paris and shows how the controversial baron created a style that would become a model for urban transformation.
- Contents:
- Part I A Dedicated Administrator
- 1 The Prince, Paris, Haussmann 5
- 2 Haussmann Before Haussmann 13
- 3 Subprefect in the Age of the Bourgeois King 31
- 4 The End of Louis-Philippe's Reign 46
- 5 First Steps in the Second Republic 52
- 6 Prefect for the Var 72
- 7 From Auxerre to Bordeaux 88
- Part II Paris, the City with all the Problems
- 8 The Frenetic Growth of a Capital 113
- 9 The Splendor and the Squalor 126
- 10 The Transformation of Paris: The Curtain Rises, 1849-1853 149
- Part III Prefect for the Seine
- 11 Paris Gets a New Prefect 169
- 12 Haussmann in Control 192
- 13 Friends and Enemies 205
- 14 The First New System 216
- 15 Imperial Festivities 246
- 16 The 180-Million-Franc Agreement 281
- 17 Incorporation of the Suburban Communes and the Third System 308
- 18 Financial Difficulties 340
- 19 The Lion Grown Old 368
- Part IV Haussmannization
- 20 The Ends and the Means 385
- 21 Modern Infrastructures 396
- 22 Public Buildings 407
- 23 The Golden Age of Real Estate 417
- 24 "An Epoch in the History of City Planning" 432
- Appendices Maps of Paris 440.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-490) and index.
- ISBN:
- 156663427X
- OCLC:
- 48473918
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