Haussmann : his life and times, and the making of modern Paris / Michel Carmona ; translated from the French by Patrick Camiller
2002, First Edition. Chicago : I.R. Dee. First English translation. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #457156
ISBN: 156663427X
Physical description; 516 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-490) and index. Contents; A Dedicated Administrator -- The Prince, Paris, Haussmann -- Haussmann Before Haussmann -- Subprefect in the Age of the Bourgeois King -- The End of Louis-Philippe's Reign -- First Steps in the Second Republic -- Prefect for the Var -- From Auxerre to Bordeaux -- Paris, the City with all the Problems -- The Frenetic Growth of a Capital -- The Splendor and the Squalor -- The Transformation of Paris: The Curtain Rises, 1849-1853 -- Prefect for the Seine -- Paris Gets a New Prefect -- Haussmann in Control -- Friends and Enemies -- The First New System -- Imperial Festivities -- The 180-Million-Franc Agreement -- Incorporation of the Suburban Communes and the Third System -- Financial Difficulties -- The Lion Grown Old -- Haussmannization -- The Ends and the Means -- Modern Infrastructures -- Public Buildings -- The Golden Age of Real Estate -- "An Epoch in the History of City Planning" -- Maps of Paris. Subjects; Haussmann, Georges Eugène baron 1809-1891. Haussmann, Georges Eugène. Haussmann, Georges Eugène Baron. 1789-1815. City planning France Paris History. Urban renewal France Paris History. City planning. Employees. Politics and government. Urban renewal.
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