Dividing Paris - Urban Renewal and Social Inequality 1852-1870

A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon III. In the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III and his prefect, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, adapted Paris to the requirements of industrial capitalism, endowing the old city with elegant boulevards, an enhanced water supply, modern sewers, and public greenery.