City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris [Audiobook] download free by Rupert Christiansen
- Listen audiobook: City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
- Author: Rupert Christiansen
- Release date: 2018/1/1
- Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781541673397
- Rating: 7.03 of 10
- Votes: 806
- Review by: Moshe Chisholm
- Review rating: 7.73 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/24
- Duration: 2H49M13S in 256 kbps (44.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, AIFF, MPEG4, TTA, AAC, WMA, FLAC (compression TBZ2, AZW3, ZIP, RAR, ISO)
- Total pages original book: 224
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 16M (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eugène 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Guidebooks, Travel & Holiday Guides, European History
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 24.18 USD
- Dimensions: 132x193x25mm
- Weight: 295g
- Printed by: Not Available
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