Rupert Christiansen
City of Light
City of Light
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The book City of Light by Christiana Christiansen describes the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world. It was part of a massive and ambitious program of public works directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, which transformed the old medieval city into a modern metropolis. The book charts a fifteen-year project of urban renewal that set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and created the enduring and globally familiar layout of modern Paris.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 04 March 2021
Publisher: Head of Zeus
A captivating portrayal of the nineteenth-century transformation of Paris into the most enchanting city in the world, as part of the remarkable Landmark Library series. This truly is an impressive book by Sebastian Faulks. Brisk, vibrant, and unexpectedly stirring, no one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as Christiansen does. The Mail on Sunday. Every page is a pleasure, every building, every gas lamp brought shimmering to life. Don't board the Eurostar without a copy. The Times. A wonderful book, amazingly vivid. But also a truly original work of scholarship by Theodore Zeldin. In 1853, the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program 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—characterized by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares, and public monuments, new railway stations, 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.
Weight: 314g
Dimension: 192 x 200 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838932084
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