Volume 33, Number 20 · December 18, 1986
City Lights
By Mark Girouard
The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna
by Donald J. Olsen
Yale University Press, 341 pp., $35.00
London, Paris, and Vienna were the three great centers of nineteenth-century Europe. All three were imperial capitals, all three had a glittering social and intellectual life, all three contained splendid buildings, all three faced appalling problems of disease and poverty. But each had its own character. The contrast between London and Paris, in particular, never failed to fill visitors from one to the other with amazement. But what was the nature of the differences? And what were their causes?
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