5.7. REMAKING THE CITY

MENU: 5.7. Remaking the city 

WAS THE ELITES' IMMEDIATE CONCERN OBSOLETE 

INFRASTRUCTURE OR REVOLUTION BY WORKING-CLASS 

"BARBARIANS?"

Claude Abron

An esplanade built to assemble troops.

Observing the transformation 

shows the military priority. 

• "An ounce of prevention:" churches and a park

• Open the town to the army

• Huge central spaces to assemble troops

• A fountain where the Emperor crushes Socialism

• The new arteries' military purpose

• A "masterly line" cuts through the working-class east

• The grand voids of the blue-collar east

• A similar site reveals the uprising's extent

• A void whose core is empty confirms the giant spaces' tie to power

• At Notre-Dame Cathedral, repression replaces eternity

• Planning Latin Quarter bombardment has happy results

• The hospital garden 

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"An ounce of prevention:" churches and a park