{"product_id":"city-of-light-the-making-of-modern-paris-1541673395","title":"City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1541673395\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Christiansen, Rupert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the worldIn 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eug Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed 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 rail 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.Lively and engaging, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris became Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325595091232,"sku":"NEW1541673395","price":32.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41jcKaCpaLL.jpg?v=1773158417","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/city-of-light-the-making-of-modern-paris-1541673395","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}