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When he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually entirely rebuilt during the mid-1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged into Paris's history and began photographing what he learned had changed. Eventually, he led tours and gave lectures on the demolition and reconstruction that changed the city forever. Walks Through Lost Paris chronicles Paris's great periods of urban reconstruction through four walking tours. With a special focus on the work of Georges-Eugene Haussmann, this book provides a history of each site along with the motives behind the urban redesign and the reactions of Parisians who witnessed it. Detailed maps take you through a city whose changes were captured by photographers and artists in each stage. Hundreds of color photos, diagrams, and engravings splendidly survey the massive transformation that resulted in the Paris of today.
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Donald Cawood
reviewed Walks Through Lost Paris: A Journey Into the Heart of Historic Paris on April 23, 2010
Walks Through Lost Paris: A Journey Into the Heart of Historic Paris
I've never seen a book quite like this one. The closest equivalents might be Jane Holtz Kay's Lost Boston or Peter Vanderwarker's Boston Then and Now. Before-and-after photographs of areas destroyed or radically altered in the creation of the Paris we are all familiar with (which is by no means as old as it appears to be), maps, plans, and a truly amazing amount of history (urban and otherwise) are all combined in a beautifully designed small package. I was particularly impressed by the very informative discussion of the development of the Louvre/Tuileries complex (pages 112-119). Although the automobile would eventually have made many of these mournfully chronicled demolitions necessary in any case, much else done by Baron Haussmann in the name of urban renewal now seems simply wanton destruction.
This well laid out book by an expatriate American author in love with the city presents itself in the format of a travel guide but is actually very much more. In fact, one need not be anywhere near Paris in order to enjoy it ' all that's needed are a love of Paris and an appreciation of older cities' urban landscapes.
-Alan
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