Paris After Haussmann : Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870-1914 / Peter S. Soppelsa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soppelsa, Peter S., author.

Series:

History of the urban environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infrastructure (Economics)--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Infrastructure (Economics)--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Paris (France)--History--1870-1940.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

xii, 314 pages : illustrations (black & white), maps 24 cm.

Other Title:

Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870-1914

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded and modernized, some Parisians were left behind: as late as 1928, 18 percent of houses still lacked direct sewerage. Haussmannization often hid infrastructures behind walls and floors, under streets, or in peripheral districts. In the forty years after 1870, a period that Peter Soppelsa calls "secondary Haussmannization," Parisians inverted them-revealed their hidden components to scrutinize their workings and costs for society, environment, and health-and in turn politicized them. Drawing on French government archives, engineers' maps, the illustrated press, and a collection of over 100 photographic postcards, Soppelsa charts the diverse embodied, emotional, and everyday experiences of living with expanding urban infrastructures-streets, housing, tramways, subways, the water supply, sewers, and rivers-in Paris from 1870 to 1914. Parisians learned that infrastructures were not simply technical solutions for the social and environmental problems of city life but could also bring about new dangers and dependencies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Living with Infrastructure

Chapter 1. Streets, or the Politics of Infrastructure

Chapter 2. At Home with Infrastructure

Chapter 3. The Street Life of the Tramways

Chapter 4. The Dream Life of the Métropolitain

Chapter 5. Under Construction

Chapter 6. Living with Risk

Chapter 7. Making a Stink

Chapter 8. Resources and Risks of Rivers

Conclusion: Inverting Haussmannization

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Soppelsa, Peter S. Paris after Haussmann.

ISBN:

9780822948827

0822948826

9780822967934

0822967936

OCLC:

1527151011

Publisher Number:

90104359485