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...Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages. It all adds up, reports TIME Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, to Paris' biggest urban renewal since the 1850s, when Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann tore up much of the medieval town and started creating his city of symmetry, parks and long vistas...
...four, John House man (then Jacques Haussmann) had spent two birthdays on the Simplon-Orient Express. It is an image with which to connect the 70 years that have gone into this urbane, fascinating and graceful memoir. Houseman was and is a restless, slightly exotic voy ager through life and drama...
...current battle over destruction of the pavilions involved aesthetics rather than traditions. This time the conservationists were interested in saving what they consider to be the city's prime example of exquisite early ironwork. Les Halles were designed by Architect Victor Baltard, working with Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann, the city planner who created much of modern Paris. Baltard's first pavilion, shaped in stone, was so gross that Napoleon III personally ordered it torn down. The Emperor told Haussmann: "I want big umbrellas. Nothing more." The baron told Baltard to try iron, and this time he caught...
...enormous sundial there. It was Napoleon who conceived the massive Arc de Triomphe in 1806 as a monument to the heroes of the French victory at Marengo. The arch was completed 30 years later during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and the place was laid out by Haussmann...
...there is hardly a city from Vienna to Vientiane that is not hard pressed to accommodate swelling populations in orderly fashion. American cities face a special disadvantage, however, for they sprang full-blown from the wilderness; there was no planned base for rational expansion, as there was in Baron Haussmann's Paris or Peter the Great's St. Petersburg. In 1790 the nation's first census showed that 95% of Americans lived on farms or in hamlets...