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Newman, Karen. Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris.(Book review)
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March 22, 2008
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Newman, Karen. Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 200. ISBN: 0-691-12754-9
The nineteenth-century city is often thought the culmination of urbanization. Not only were new technologies applied to sanitation, public transport, and communication, but the city became an object of deliberate planning instead of a hodgepodge of individual edifices. The early modern city, organic in its growth and frequently its odors, tends consequently to be considered a "failure," with the appearance of numerous problems including overcrowding and insalubrious conditions that would continue for centuries. Karen Newman ...
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