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Design Change in Paris

Cities change all the time, growing larger, replacing old buildings, redesigning roadways and connections between buildings and regions, and similar changes as the population shifts, uses change, political leadership is replaced, and other forces are brought to bear. Numerous changes were made in the overall design of the city of Paris after the nineteenth century, absorbing and in some ways altering the original plan for the city and many of the shifts that had taken place since that time.

Paris was a medieval city that grew around the river Seine, and this capital city of France remained much as it had been in the medieval period into the nineteenth century. The Revolution in 1789 had changed this city very little except for the razing of the Bastille. The city at that time was considered an anachronism by the time of Louis XVI, for it consisted of dense, dark, intricate streets that were not suited to the needs of the growing metropolis Paris had become. There had been many legal obstacles to

change and development in place, and the Revolution did bring an end to these so that changes could now be made. Property belonging to ?migr?s and to the Church changed hands and could not be developed, and this amounted to one-eight of the space in the city. The main body of the densely built city remained intact, however. Napoleon I intended to bring about major structural changes but managed to put few into effect, and in the 1850s, Paris was still being described as a city from another age. A few new monuments had been added, such as the Arc de Triomphe, as well as a few new streets, like the rue de Rivoli. Otherwise, the city had changed little (Olsen 35).

The city was marked by streets that were narrow, crooked, crowed, and badly built. The streets were lined with tall buildings that overshadowed the way. Water flowed down the streets unheeded and often stagnated. Few streets were wide enough for one vehicle to pass ...

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