Title: City of light
Description: "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 and department stores, and a new system of public sanitation. City of Light charts this fifteen-year project of urban renewal which-despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption, and bankruptcy-set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and created the enduring landscape of modern Paris now so famous around the globe. A lively and engaging read, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris became Paris"--
Subjects: Public works, History, Influence, Urban renewal, New York Times reviewed, Haussmann, georges eugene, baron, 1809-1891, Paris (france), history, Paris (france), social life and customs, Napoleon iii, emperor of the french, 1808-1873, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Places: Paris, Paris (France), France
People: Georges Eugène Haussmann baron (1809-1891)
Time periods: 1848-1870, 19th century