GEOG 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Making Money, Edgar Degas, Syphilis
7 Feb 2018
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Barron haussmann made large changes to the city. Lots of construction = lots of people making money. Emphasis on big spaces, and straight lines. New water and sewage systems: cleaner city. Installation of streetlights (paris is the city of lights) New spaces for living, leisure and working. City became modern (circulation of air, light, brighter) vs. dark, quaint city. Construction and train stations increased the polution in the city. Haussmanization brought cleanliness and order, but also polution (associated with. Constantly see both sides of modernity through artworks. Order of bourgeois life in the city. Emphasis on paris being a bourgeoisse space. How the middle and upperclass people emphasize their order. Cleanliness was a barrier that separated classes. Limits and distances were seen to keep order. Hint at the different classed bodies in paris (subtle) Symbolically linked to france"s desire to health and purity. New theories (germs and bacteria): great fear of germs and contagion.
