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Written by one of the foremost experts on the subject loyer is former architecture critic for loeil and director of the survey of the citys 19th and 20th century architecture since 1974 under the sponsorship of the atelier parisien durbanism this extremely important book on 19th century paris is copiously illustrated with maps and . At the beginning of the 19th century the city of paris doubled in density without increasing its space prior to then the city center was chaotic overcrowded dark crime ridden dangerous and unhealthy it was not uncommon to find 23 people adults and children living in a room five meters square less than eight by seven feet. The body and the building architecture urbanism and hygiene in early nineteenth century paris view open park gsasharvard 0084l 11527pdf 6442mb access status full text of the requested work is not available in dash at this time dark deposit. The 19th century suburbanization of paris as late as 1800 virtually all of the population of the paris urban area lived 550000 within the ville de paris according to data compiled by tertius chandler in his epic four thousand years of urban growth an historical analysis