{"product_id":"city-of-light-1","title":"City Of Light By Christiansen, Rupert","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This really is an impressive book''\u003c\/b\u003e Sebastian Faulks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brisk, vivid and unexpectedly stirring... No one writes as evocatively and entertainingly about Paris as Christiansen does''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Every page is a pleasure, every building, every gas lamp brought shimmering to life... Don''t board the Eurostar without a copy''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A wonderful book, amazingly vivid... But also a truly original work of scholarship''\u003c\/b\u003e Theodore Zeldin. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann''s renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a ''City of Light'' – characterised by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new railway stations and department stores and a new system of public sanitation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCity of Light\u003c\/i\u003e charts a fifteen-year project of urban renewal which – despite the interruptions of war, revolution, corruption and bankruptcy – would set a template for nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban planning and create the enduring and globally familiar layout of modern Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57650653659518,"sku":"NW9781838932084","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781838932084.jpg?v=1783372418","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/city-of-light-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}