Ambitions Tamed: Urban Expansion in Pre-revolutionary Lyon
March 28, 2010 | In: Books
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When Lyon’s population experienced significant growth in the eighteenth century, architect Jean-Antoine Morand made a radical proposal: France’s second city would expand across the river Rhone, making him rich in the process. Intense work and bitter rivalries resulted, although they bore fruit only long after Morand had died on the guillotine in 1794. In “Ambitions Tamed”, Pierre Reynard profiles Morand’s career to provide a case-study of the possibilities of urban … More >>
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Midwest Book Review
March 28th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Urban development was an issue before the term urban was even coined. “Ambitions Tamed: Urban Expansion in Pre-Revolutionary Lyon” tells the story of the development of Lyon, which faced a population explosion before the French Revolution. Bringing the history of the city to the forefront, “Ambitions Tamed” blends urban development history with European history as the two conflict and the French monarchists at the time took much convincing. It is also story of Jean-Antoine Morand, a man who became rich off his ideas that helped Lyons. But it was all perhaps lost when the revolution came. “Ambitions Tamed” is a read that would serve well as an addition to both European history and urban development collections.
Rating: 5 / 5