City of Light (Hardcover)

In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme 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' – 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.

General

Imprint:	Head of Zeus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Landmark Library
Release date:	July 2018
Authors:	Rupert Christiansen
Dimensions:	200 x 135 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-78669-454-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-78669-454-9
Barcode:	9781786694546

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