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Question 1: How has city planning impacted the history of Paris? Use some specific examples

from the layout discussions and your knowledge of Parisian history.

The history of Paris is impacted by everything that goes on in the city, and this is especially true

for city planning and urban development throughout the entirety of the history of the city. The

biggest impact on city planning and the history of Paris was undoubtedly the work done by

Georges-Eugène Haussmann. He helped Paris to grow and eventually become the modern city it

is today. Haussmann modernized Paris through the use of large rectilinear avenues and

boulevards, he also normalized neighboring buildings, as well as street furniture. He also heavily

used networked infrastructures to help provide heat, light, sanitation, transportation, and water

around the city, all of these things are now essential in modern cities around the world, and

Haussmann helped to normalize them. In addition to all the good of his city planning,

Haussmann also destroyed a lot of the city and caused some major economic problems for Paris

and its people. The haussmannization of Paris caused rent prices to skyrocket all over the city,

especially for apartments in middle class neighborhoods. This sudden spike in real estate prices

made it so that the working class was forced out of their neighborhoods because they could no

longer afford to live there. This unfortunate disparity between classes did not slow the boom in

apartment living in Paris though, and the new popularity of apartment living in Paris changed

how the streets and the city was seen by the Parisians which helped to shape and impact how

Paris has changed over its history. The apartments that were in the busy streets of Paris made the

private lives of the tenants more public. In apartments, your life was more visible to the public

eye because you were not secluded or out of the way of the public eye, and large windows were

built into the fronts of the buildings as well. Another major impact that Haussmann had on the

history of Paris through his city planning was that he made it so that the only place that the city

could put tramways, railways, and metro systems was where he had already put his massive

boulevards and avenues. So, by doing this, Haussmann effectively managed to choose exactly

where the major modes of transportation throughout the city could be placed and where they

could go within the city as well.

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