Volume 27, Number 1 · February 7, 1980
The Assassination of Paris
By Richard Cobb
Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978
by Norma Evenson
Yale University Press, 382 pp., $30.00
Architects, town planners, and specialists in traffic circulation are much more dangerous than sociologists, who, so often, have merely served to complicate what might have seemed self-evident and simple to the historian. The errors, assumptions, and miscalculations of the former are both durable and visible: solid contributions to human misery, whereas, while sociologists may attempt to bypass history, or to render it unintelligible and unreadable, they do not seek to destroy it altogether.
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