#how shitty the whole Paris re-building plan thing was like | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fruity-pontmercy · 2 years

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My favourite fun fact about Paris architecture and like the Haussmanian re-vamp that Paris got is by far the fact that the streets were specifically designed to be wider so that people would be unable to build barricades-

Like there's something so funny (funny is not the right word here but I cant find a better one) to me that people building barricades is such a genuinely legitimate concern that when they re-modeled the city they designed it specifically for it. like-

idk..

#obviously nothing comes between people and their barricades as proved later by May 68 but still its just so #idk #hyanthis #im gonna tag this as les mis bc it has the word barricade in it #les mis #les miz #also I know EVERYONE loves Haussmannian architecture cuz its pretty and whatnot but I think not enough people talk about how kind of shitty #how shitty the whole Paris re-building plan thing was like #it was just gentrification En-masse as well as wiping out of historical buildings and medieval streets so the city could be 'aesthetically #pleasing' and marketable to tourists and rich people #obviously it was also to prevent the fast spread of diseases like cholera and in that point I think its good but like #so many poorer areas were targeted and so many people had their homes demolished #idk... just #yea

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