CHANGED THREAT, CHANGED CITY

 

WHEN UNIONS AND STRIKES REPLACE REVOLT, URBAN DESIGN ADAPTS 

Take new streets and a new church in the 13th, a former Communard bastion in the most miserable part of the city:

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Tanners on the banks of the stinking Bièvre river, toward 1900

 

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The long, straight artery of the 1850's that let the army march 

from the center to the outskirts was a response to the June insurrection:

Adapted from a Google map

• The many arteries built at the time had points of focus that in one way or another reinforced the regime. In this tumultuous slum, the church promoted obedience:

In the distance, Notre-Dame de la Gare

• As well, the huge space around it was meant for assembling troops, cannons and horses, while separating soldiers from the population:

Adapted from a Google aerial map

The space behind the church. For that in front of it, please click.

• The artery continues, cutting through the former slum as far as the city limit.

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Forty years later another church was built 20 minutes away.  

(Sainte-Anne de la Butte aux Cailles)

• It is on a crossroad, not an artery: 

Adapted from a Google map

•  There us no space for soldiers to assemble and the street behind the church is much too narrow for such a purpose:

 The decor is influenced by the Sacré-Cœur

but the mood is different. 

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The Sacré-Cœur frightens, Sainte-Anne heals