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Fictions of the City

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230244917

ISBN: 978-1-349-36826-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 12, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction — Fictions of the City

Taunton, Matthew

Pages: 1 –6

[Over the course of the nineteenth century, the exponential growth of both London and Paris created unprecedented social formations. The attempt to make sense of the complexity of modern urban life — or alternatively to testify to its incomprehensibility — became a key function of fictional...
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Chapter 2Haussmann’s Paris and the immeuble

Taunton, Matthew

Pages: 7 –48

[Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in the nineteenth century is a defining moment in the history of the metropolis. In certain ways, it would be possible to trace the history of urban planning back to antiquity but the manner and scale of Haussmann’s intervention make it the point of origin for a...
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Chapter 3The London Suburbs

Taunton, Matthew

Pages: 49 –97

[Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris continues to define, to a large extent, the archetypal Parisian abode, which is why it formed the basis for the first chapter of this book. In the history of the London home of the same period, there is no Haussmann figure, no governmental authority whose dictates...
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Chapter 4The Parisian Banlieue

Taunton, Matthew

Pages: 98 –138

[The relation of centre to periphery in Paris is utterly different — in some ways opposite — to that in London. Haussmann’s plan had been to connect the areas of central Paris to one another, but the limits of the city were absolute: beyond the Thiers fortifications lay an unformatted zone...
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Chapter 5Council Housing in London

Taunton, Matthew

Pages: 139 –182

[In many ways, this final case study tells a similar story to the previous one. In Britain as in France, the post-war housing crisis became so acute that the state was forced to intervene and eventually did so with system-built modernist apartment blocks. In both countries, the polar distinction...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Taunton, Matthew

Pages: 183 –186

[Housing policy and urban planning can seem dry, worldly subjects, but I hope that this book will encourage those interested in representations of the city to give them more consideration.]

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