Dividing Paris (eBook)

Urban Renewal and Social Inequality, 1852–1870

Esther da Costa Meyer (Autor)

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2022
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22353-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon IIIIn the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III and his prefect, Georges-Eugene Haussmann, adapted Paris to the requirements of industrial capitalism, endowing the old city with elegant boulevards, an enhanced water supply, modern sewers, and public greenery. Esther da Costa Meyer provides a major reassessment of this ambitious project, which resulted in widespread destruction in the historic center, displacing thousands of poor residents and polarizing the urban fabric.Drawing on newspapers, memoirs, and other archival materials, da Costa Meyer explores how people from different social strata-both women and men-experienced the urban reforms implemented by the Second Empire. As hundreds of tenements were destroyed to make way for upscale apartment buildings, thousands of impoverished residents were forced to the periphery, which lacked the services enjoyed by wealthier parts of the city. Challenging the idea of Paris as the capital of modernity, da Costa Meyer shows how the city was the hub of a sprawling colonial empire extending from the Caribbean to Asia, and exposes the underlying violence that enriched it at the expense of overseas territories.This marvelously illustrated book brings to light the contributions of those who actually built and maintained the impressive infrastructure of Paris, and reveals the consequences of colonial practices for the city's cultural, economic, and political life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 60 color + 115 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Algeria • Amateur • Ambivalence • Annexation • Apprenticeship • Banlieue • Betterment • Boulevard du Crime • Bourgeoisie • burial • Cemetery • Color theory • Commodity • Creative Work • Cultivar • Depth of Field • Discrimination • engraving • ethnic group • Faubourg • Fertilizer • Fontaine du Palmier • Fortification • French colonial empire • French intervention in Mexico • Generosity • Gentrification • geologist • Georges-Eugène Haussmann • Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon • Gérard de Nerval • Graphic arts • Gustave Le Gray • harassment • Haussmann's renovation of Paris • Henri Lefebvre • Human • Hygiene • Ideology • Illegal Immigration • Imperial Ambitions • imperialism • Infrastructure • Insurgency • Islet • Jacques Ignace Hittorff • Jean-Jacques Lequeu • Jean-Marie Morel • Jules Ferry • July Monarchy • June Revolution • Lac Daumesnil • Les Halles • liberty tree • Lighting • Louis Philippe I • Louis Veuillot • Louviers • Macadam • Modernity • Napoleon • Napoleon III • Northern Suburbs • Ourcq • Outsourcing • paleontology • Pathology • Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta • Personal life • picturesque • Principles of Geology • Protestantism • Provision (accounting) • Rationality • reign • Revanchism • rifleman • Rue de Rivoli • Sainte-Chapelle • Sanitary sewer • sewerage • Sigfried Giedion • Slum • Small Business • Social Class • Superiority (short story) • Tax • Technology • Tenement • The Dispossessed • topsoil • typhoid fever • Urban decay • Urban renewal • Vegetation • Victor Hugo • war • warfare • water supply • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22353-X / 069122353X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22353-7 / 9780691223537