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Planning Paris before Haussmann

Long before Baron Haussmann remade Paris, several generations of intellectuals, planners, architects, engineers, and politicians envisioned a radical transformation of medieval Paris into a modern city that would be beautiful, rational, sanitary, and responsive to the needs of commerce and industry.
Print Book, English, 2004
The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, 2004
XIII, 336 s. : il., pl. ; 24 cm.
9780801879302, 0801879302
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