Haussmann's renovation of Paris

In the nineteenth century, Paris became the epitome of the modern city, at least in the eyes of its upper class bourgeois elite and the tourists who visited the modern marvel. This “modern vision” of Paris was developed by people willing to look at and into their surroundings and themselves critically. In fact, it is those people looking at themselves and others in a critical sense and being conscious of the effect their way of seeing the world can have on others that drove who Parisian modernity. These modernizers, especially bourgeois male professionals and managerial or educational elites saw how they could impose their “modern vision” on others and acted upon it. The Parisians utilized different visuals to advertise this “modern vision”…

Another motivation for the renovation of Paris was the “putrid” condition of the city’s waste systems, which filled the streets with garbage, horse manure, and human waste. Essentially, the medieval system of garbage disposal was to deposit it on the street on the Seine. Haussmann and Napoleon II sought to create massive sewage systems to remedy this form of waste management policy, which sought to reduce poor hygiene and the transmission of disease throughout the city. The premise of a new…

inherited his father’s fortune in 1874. At that time he had already made aquantasist with several impressionist artist and soon began to focus on art. He made his debut in the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876. Gustave was an impressionist artist but his style differ from many of the other impressionist artist because his work was more realistic. One of his most famous painting is "Paris Street;Rainy Day." Gustave Caillebotte painted “Paris Street: Rainy Day” in 1877. In this painting…

Émile Zola prominently displays many of the modern changes that occurred in Paris’s physical and social landscape in a department store setting. The Ladies Paradise showcases the progressive changes to the business model and infrastructure within Paris which enables the store to overcome its competitors and become a spectacle of Paris, The success of Mouret’s newly developed business model and practices enabled The Ladies Paradise to transcend the old order of specialization and usher in the…

Paris may be known worldwide today as ‘the city of lights’ and home to the unmistakable Eiffel Tower that dominates the city, but there was once a time when Paris was a medieval town, with ancient buildings and streets. Prior to the drastic actions of Georges-Eugène Haussmann to modernise the city, the river Seine was the centre of commerce. This was until his boulevards became the new highways of the city. Haussmann’s renovation of Paris took place between 1853 and 1870, and saw buildings like…

crossword puzzle to occupy their time. These people could easily spend this time in their own home, nothing is keeping the man with his crossword from finishing the puzzle in his own residence. In many ways though they do not because they also want to live their live in the glow that Baudelaire saw in the renovations of Paris. Present day people want to also live in the progress of the modern world. In these cities it goes beyond the changing in social interaction. Berman wrote that in Paris,…