Planning Paris before Haussmann : ideas and proposals for a new city / Nicholas Papayanis.

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Papayanis, Nicholas.

Title & Author:

Planning Paris before Haussmann : ideas and proposals for a new city / Nicholas Papayanis.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Eighteenth-century roots of modern planning -- 2. "Functionalist planners" before Haussmann -- 3. The Saint-Simonians and Paris -- 4. The Fourierists and the new Paris -- 5. Planning the Paris underground -- 6. The Simeon Commission.

Summary:

"Historian Nicholas Papayanis examines the emergence and evolution of modern urban planning in Paris between the end of the eighteenth and the middle of the nineteenth century, focusing on the principles and concerns that informed competing plans for the city." "Planning Paris before Haussmann uncovers the intellectual ferment about city planning and urban reform that constituted a powerful intellectual and theoretical foundation for Haussmannization and for modern urban planning."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Table of contents

ISBN:

0801879302 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801879302 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891.
Urban renewal France Paris History.
City planning France Paris History.
City planning France Paris.
Rénovation urbaine France Paris Histoire.
City planning.
Urban renewal.
Paris (France) History.
Paris (France) Histoire.
France Paris.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232959
Call No.: NA44.H377.23 .P28 2004
Status: Available

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