Alone in the Crowd

Utopia and Dystopia on the Parisian Boulevards

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, History, France
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Author: Amanda J Field ISBN: 9781909183919
Publisher: Andrews UK Publication: July 10, 2015
Imprint: Chaplin Books Language: English
Author: Amanda J Field
ISBN: 9781909183919
Publisher: Andrews UK
Publication: July 10, 2015
Imprint: Chaplin Books
Language: English
Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at simultaneously. Did Haussmann’s re-figuring of the city, with its unrelenting straight boulevards, stirring vistas and uniform buildings, create a ‘mass produced’ image of Paris? If so, who benefited - and who lost out - in the construction of this new identity? Did the boulevards represent dystopia as well as utopia?
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Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at simultaneously. Did Haussmann’s re-figuring of the city, with its unrelenting straight boulevards, stirring vistas and uniform buildings, create a ‘mass produced’ image of Paris? If so, who benefited - and who lost out - in the construction of this new identity? Did the boulevards represent dystopia as well as utopia?

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