Paris in the 19th century was the theatre of a trend in urban planning that sought to elevate the city to the heroic status of a modern Babylon or Babel. The city wall erected by the “ fermiers généraux” (the company of tax collectors established under the Ancien régime), which enclosed Paris until 1860, was reinforced for a time by the fortifications completed by Thiers in 1844 and pulled down in the 1920s, thus strengthening perceptions of the city as a cocoon, and later a jewel nestling within its protective casket. Balzac’s “queen of cities”, the Grand Paris now encircled by the ring road, was necessarily the heart of the future capital: had it not preserved the essence of the urban harmony and cultural aura that took shape during its g...
Ville en perpétuel mouvement, Paris n'a cessé de changer de superficie. C'est au cours de la premièr...
Cette recherche entend revisiter l’histoire du Paris populaire du XIXe siècle par une appréhension l...
The Constitution of an Urban Space : Paris and its Suburb from the End of the 19th Century to 1970 ...
International audienceThe law of 16 june 1859 announced that from 1 January 1860, the limits of Pari...
Dans une perspective chronologique élargie (XIXe-XXIe siècle), le colloque « Paris capital(e) médiat...
International audienceDestroying City Walls and Opening up the City in the 19th Century: The German ...
How do Parisian architecture and urban form reflect the changes of scale from a city of 500 000 inha...
In the developing tourist culture of the nineteenth century, hundreds of guidebooks to Paris were pu...
Au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, la pacification de l'intérieur du territoire français et la st...
Large-scale urban violence is a tumultuous, messy, and distressing affair. The materials and pattern...
This study examines Paris in the 19tb century - and up to 1914 -, focussing in particular on the per...
ABSTRACTThe significant change in urban space in Paris during the Second French Empire is an example...
Paris is a widespread urban system: a space and a landscape which have progressively become polycent...
International audienceAt Paris gates : urban social skills and experience of boundaries in the 16th ...
L'actualité de la création de la Métropole du Grand Paris qui redéfinit le périmètre de la capitale,...
Ville en perpétuel mouvement, Paris n'a cessé de changer de superficie. C'est au cours de la premièr...
Cette recherche entend revisiter l’histoire du Paris populaire du XIXe siècle par une appréhension l...
The Constitution of an Urban Space : Paris and its Suburb from the End of the 19th Century to 1970 ...
International audienceThe law of 16 june 1859 announced that from 1 January 1860, the limits of Pari...
Dans une perspective chronologique élargie (XIXe-XXIe siècle), le colloque « Paris capital(e) médiat...
International audienceDestroying City Walls and Opening up the City in the 19th Century: The German ...
How do Parisian architecture and urban form reflect the changes of scale from a city of 500 000 inha...
In the developing tourist culture of the nineteenth century, hundreds of guidebooks to Paris were pu...
Au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, la pacification de l'intérieur du territoire français et la st...
Large-scale urban violence is a tumultuous, messy, and distressing affair. The materials and pattern...
This study examines Paris in the 19tb century - and up to 1914 -, focussing in particular on the per...
ABSTRACTThe significant change in urban space in Paris during the Second French Empire is an example...
Paris is a widespread urban system: a space and a landscape which have progressively become polycent...
International audienceAt Paris gates : urban social skills and experience of boundaries in the 16th ...
L'actualité de la création de la Métropole du Grand Paris qui redéfinit le périmètre de la capitale,...
Ville en perpétuel mouvement, Paris n'a cessé de changer de superficie. C'est au cours de la premièr...
Cette recherche entend revisiter l’histoire du Paris populaire du XIXe siècle par une appréhension l...
The Constitution of an Urban Space : Paris and its Suburb from the End of the 19th Century to 1970 ...