The Paris Housing Crisis and a Social Revolution in Domestic Architecture on the Eve of the First World War*.

FRANCE; PARIS (France); EUROPE

The article discusses the housing shortage crisis in Paris, France, providing an overview of housing issues in the French capital in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Topics include domestic architecture, overcrowding, health and sanitation issues, the late 19th-century redesign of the city by prefect of the Seine Baron Georges Haussmann, the suburban development around Paris, and a comparative analysis of urban development between France, Great Britain, Germany, and the U.S.