Started by Kate Lindqvist (@concrete_kate) ·
why Paris looks like Paris
Same height, same cream limestone, same balcony lines on the 2nd and 5th floors, grey zinc roofs. Mostly one guy in the 1850s-60s bulldozing the medieval city.
4 sources · 30 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “why are paris buildings all the same”
- Ended at
- Mansard roof
The Trail
- “why are paris buildings all the same” (google.com)
- Haussmann's renovation of Paris (en.wikipedia.org)
- Georges-Eugène Haussmann (en.wikipedia.org)
- Mansard roof (en.wikipedia.org)
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