Haussmann
Subtitle: his life and times, and the making of modern Paris
By: Michel Carmona ; translated from the French by Patrick Camiller.
Publisher: I. R. Dee
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
Subjects: Haussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891.; City planning -- France -- Paris -- History.; Urban renewal -- France -- Paris -- History.; France -- Officials and employees -- Biography.; France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In 1853, Napoleon III appointed to the Paris city hall an administrator who had already proved himself in a number of provincial posts, most notably at Bordeaux, and whose name would come to symbolize the modernization of Paris. In barely fifteen years, Baron Haussmann completed the enormous task entrusted to him by the emperor: to transform an unruly capital into a prestigious metropolis.

Dozens of building sites were opened in the streets of the capital; thousands of houses were pulled down; wide straight boulevards were cut through the city with blocks of apartments built alongside them; new theatres and churches sprang up along with public gardens; water, sewage, and gas systems were modernized.".

"Mr. Carmona has exhaustively examined the historical record and has written a superb biography that will be welcomed by all who have savored the avenues, parks, public buildings, monuments, and byways of the City of Light. Haussman will be a treasure too for architects, urban planners, and those readers who are interested in the life of great cities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-490) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I A DEDICATED ADMINISTRATOR; title: 1. The Prince, Paris, Haussmann 5; title: 2. Haussmann Before Haussmann 13; title: 3. Subprefect in the Age of the Bourgeois King 31; title: 4. The End of Louis-Philippe's Reign 46; title: 5. First Steps in the Second Republic 52; title: 6. Prefectforthe Var 72; title: 7. From Auxerre to Bordeaux 88; title: PART II PARIS, THE CITY WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS; title: 8. The Frenetic Growth of a Capital 113; title: 9. The Splendor and the Squalor 126; title: 10. The Transformation of Paris: The Curtain Rises, 1849-1853 149; title: PART III PREFECT FOR THE SEINE; title: 11. Paris Gets a New Prefect 169; title: 12. Haussmann in Control 192; title: 13. Friends and Enemies 205; title: 14. The First New System 216; title: 15. Imperial Festivities 246; title: 16. The i8o-Million-Franc Agreement 281; title: 17. Incorporation of the Suburban Communes and the Third System 308; title: 18. Financial Difficulties 340; title: 19. The Lion Grown Old 368; title: PART IV HAUSSMANNIZATION; title: 20. The Ends and the Means 385; title: 21. Modern Infrastructures 396; title: 22. Public Buildings 407; title: 23. The Golden Age of Real Estate 417; title: 24. "An Epoch in the History of City Planning" 432.