Legendary Megastructures | The Gigantic Architectural Transformation of Paris | FD Engineering
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Napoleon III made it his mission to modernize the French capital city after spending some time in London. He employed Georges-Eugène Haussmann to carry out this massive urban renewal program, which saw new boulevards, parks and public works over a period of 17 years. Overcrowded and unhealthy medival neighboorhoods were demolished to make space for wide avenues, parks, squares, fountains, sewers, and aqueducts. Through this program, we learn how this enormous project was executed.
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"OK, it's time to work on the 3D visualizations-what's our budget, again?" "Um, we only have $111.45 left after paying everyone in the 2,000-piece orchestra we hired for the soundtrack." "Damn. OK, just do one flythrough of a few blocks of identical buildings and we can show it every 3-4 minutes. No one will notice..."
@bncrain 😂
A quality production. Very informative. Thanks a lot !!
what a nice documentary. thank you for this wonderful piece of history
These guys were insanely talented.
Absolument! Their creative genius were out of this world! No computers; no calculators. Just their hands and their minds. Vooow!
I love French architecture it elegant
Absolument
Ça c est vrai. Hélas c est tout le reste qui ne va pas comme l insécurité etc....
Every City needs a Haussmann
All Greece needs him 😮
What makes you think every city needs this?
It caused the mass destruction of neighborhoods, it got so bad that he was fired eventually by Napoleon from the huge protests.
that's how we got Robert Moses
It’s amazing what can be done with a monarch’s money and no real legislative hurdles, Paris! Now with plumbing!
The separation between service and occupants seems shocking today but it was common back then, it's not specific to Paris. It was pretty common in bourgeois houses and manors, it's just being applied to high-density housing. Also there was coal to move to the kitchen, using the "master's" entrance would leave coal dust on the corridor carpet (which would only add more work for cleaners). Not that I condone it though. In 2016 some people refused to elevate their elevators to the last floors despite being able to do it, just because they don't want to share it with the people above, forcing them to climb stairs the entire way (because the stairs are still separated today). People can be so selfish.
The rich, I read, not the poor.
alot of the most luxurios prewar duplex apartments in Manhattan also have service elevators and separate staircases in the back portions of each unit... especially on the upper east side, many of the most exclusive buildings still require staff to use the service entrance of the building...because billionaires at 740 Park dont like sharing the elevator with some housekeeper.
C'est vraiment une vraie leçon á de ne jamais baisser les bras face á l'adversité Aussi il y a la valeur de coeching et motivation apporté par les deux experts
Very enjoyable docu. Thank you. It could have been better if the dramatic music had been tuned down. It is really over the top at times.
I persevered. It's actually really interesting. I learnt so much. I really love Paris. It's a shame that so many of the neighbourhoods were demolished leaving only Le Marais, but obviously there were much bigger issues to solve. I'm just not impressed with the political monuments and stuff. To learn about the water is fascinating. Anyway, very interesting and informative.
Why aren’t u impressed with the monuments, they are breathtaking and beautiful
If the subject interests you, I recommend the documentary series broadcast by the Arte channel called "Paris Berlin Destins Croisés" (Paris/Berlin Crossed Destinies) on KZhead. In French, or in German. This shows very well the development of the two capitals since the 17th century.
Mrs. Kelly said you can only love people and animals…
??? "so many of the neighbourhoods were demolished". Uh ... that happened in the XIXth century. And those were slums. The latest large swathes of demolition (in the '60's) are the western suburbs of Paris (Courbevoie, Puteaux, ...) that were demolished to allow for La Défence business centr to be built.
In reality there is not so much of a neighborhood that was really "destroyed" in depth. I compared the plans of the empire, compared to today. Above all, there are a few streets and boulevards which have gutted certain neighborhoods. But overall, the structure is completely identical and so are the majority of buildings. (if we don't count the Middle Ages of course, I'm only talking about pre-Hausmann here)
Truly, 'a thing of beauty is a joy forever' - can be said of Paris!
We need Haussmann in Los Angeles to get rid of the trash and rebuild most of the downtown.
In Paris one day, before Google Maps, needing to catch the London train and navigating the maze of streets, I looked down one grand boulevard after another, each leading to some monumental building, and kept thinking: "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la gare."
I have had the same feeling in Paris long ago. Such a beautiful city, great to wander in, but terrible when you need to reach a specific destination.
Me2
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Hihihi ... I, a Parisian, understand fully what you mean and how you felt. I find the French very bad at signalling and I often pest about the difficulty to even find the name plaque of a street or the buildings' numbers. But, fun anecdote (and fond souvenir), when I arrived in London, years ago, where I stayed for a decade, I had to take a bus to go to my English school that was situated in Soho. I'd been told to get off the bus at Trafalgar Square. Besides the fact that I had to repeat my destination 3 times to the bus conductor who, when he finally understood me, exclaimed "Ah, Trafaaaalgar Square" (those tonic accents, the "music" of languages!) every time we passed some few square yards of grass with a bench, I'd ask other passengers "Is this Trafaaaaalgar Square?", since, here, any small patch of grass can be called "a Square" and, bizarrely, I had never seen any picture of the place before. 😀 Reassuring difference, though, is that Paris is a very small city, compared to London. So, should you get lost, it'll never be for long. PS: Before Google was invented, there were pretty paper maps! 😉
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Haussmann even destroyed the familial home he was raised in in Paris driving through his boulevards. He levelled just about all of the Île de la Cité, removing the mediaeval Hôtel Dieu (which had spanned two banks), but leaving Notre Dame and the Sainte Chapelle of course. He rearranged many of the bridges that connected to that isle so they lined up nicely as well. And the French call those apartment blocks which line the boulevards he created _immeubles haussmanniens._ 🐓
I like how your credits came in, very professional. You are creating a very good program here.
Very informative video so thank you for putting it online. However, it would have been better without the overly dramatic, intrusive music. Sometimes it drowns out the narration.
Just as well Paris was rebuilt in an age that valued classical architecture for its beauty and human scale.
Haussmann buildings had the balconies on 1st (noble) and 5th floors. But social class concerns dictated as well the 6th floor was where the domestic help lived. With one toilet on the floor there were cubicles 8-12 m2. These were reachable by back stairs as help were not allowed on the elevators. These rooms are called 'chambre de bonne', or room for the good (help). Still all over the city today sharing that toilet. Ask me, spent too many years there. NB, the ground floor is the Rez de Chausee, or carriage level. Next floor up is the first, what we call the second.
Bonne means "maid", these are maid rooms :)
I had the luck to live in a premium version of those chambres de bonnes : 1st district, between Louvres, Pyramides and Opéra, 4 chambres turned into a 30m2 apartment, one bedroom, with its own bathroom. It was super cute and actually not that expensive. It was on the 7th floor though, no elevator, just this steep, tiny staircase to get to the place. And it was hot as hell in summer, and always kind of cold in the winter.
Tear down and rebuild the city with wonderful architecture in 17 years. In the USA now the feasibility studies and environmental impact studies wouldn't get done in 17 years. It would take a couple of billions for the high highly overpaid consultants and experts to scratch their heads over this. Not to mention the protests and and Foundations set up to protest The Proposal.
Impressive and fascinating ❤
Ah cette époque c est la révolution industrielle à plein des usines partout on exportait partout la France 'était richissime c était' la Chine 'd aujourd'hui. Et c'est à ce moment que Paris' à 'été' modernisé et d une façon 'élégante et très beau. C est indiscutable.
Wow.... Baron was quite the ambitious fellow. GREAT informative video!!!
Whe should have keep the old Halles. at least a part of it and create a park on the rest. That would have been great and so much better than what we had after the destruction.
The demolition of Les Halles in the 60s is a national shame.
Don't worry the destruction of French culture today won't leave anyone left in Little Algeria to remember Les Halles.
just like the demolition of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan( among many others) is a national shame in NYC Many great buildings were demolished in the 40s-70s to make way for highways etc
All my questions answered! Love this❤
Really good vid. Thanks for posting
Amazing documentary
It is a massive masterplan! Bravo 👌👏
Emperor Napoleon III , my client, made some artworks for his tomb at Farnborough Abby.
From a frenchman, thank you for keeping his tomb alive. A shame he couldn't be burried in France. Did you see the tomb of his son? He died fighting for the british army in zululand
@@thibaudduhamel2581 Son, Emperor and Empress are in the same crypt. If you google, "Stolen Altar Card Frames of the Crypt of Napoleon III " there is more info.
The Music is too loud..
Genius.
The wide boulevards and straight streets made it much more difficult to run a revolution, like the ones that brought the Napoleons to power. And clear sights to fire.....
Thanks 🙏 ❤
soooooo mmaaaaaaannnnnyy ccccoooommmmmerrrrciiialllllssss.....
Sir Christopher Wren had great plans to achieve something similar in London after the great fire, but the political situation in London then was vastly different from France under an autocracy. Still, it would have been beautiful if it had been achieved.
Music too loud
The audio is irritating 😢
My president should really watch this @KE😅Napoleon had the vision and Haussmann was the man for the job, What great men you have France😎
Who added to this? What's with the dramatic music? Paris is the city of lights. So why you using suspense music? How did it not occur to you to use more serene music? You just lost a watcher.
We're all quite shocked, I'm sure, to hear of the idea of the live-in servant(s), but I do seem to remember that up into the 1960s or 1980s even, having at least the odd empleada or two was a social norm e.g. in Buenos Aires for anyone who wanted to be considered at least remotely mid class. I grant you servants weren't banished to some sordid little cubicle under the roof like in Paris, but were living in the same apartment with the families. Still, there was that vicious building standard called double circulation whereby servants were duly kept apart from their señores. Meaning, they had their own entrance, stairs, and sometimes even elevators and confined themselves to the laundry, the kitchen and their quarters when they weren't required ad hoc. These were of course the mythical dark ages before everything you needed to run a household was electrically powered and came in discreet little chunks and packages that only wanted thawing and warming up. When the average family size was five or six people, instead of one or two as per today. So, I suppose this aspect of the bourgeoisie is utterly shocking to our fragile modern sensibilities, but that's domestic service for you and nobody could do without it then, not least the servants who simply wouldn't have had gainful employment without it.
I genuinely thought these were reuploaded Discover Channel archives
It’s insane they eschewed even wrecking balls.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
In 1850 The great architecture built paris India need haussmann
Any society that felt it was ok to pee on the floor in Versailles of course will live in stank! The sheer thought of the body fluid odors in this day and age is unimaginable!
I jusþ watched the pick pockets and fake drugs in Amsterdam, brilliant episode.
Informative and beautifully produced- except for the music. The suspenseful, dramatic, LOUD soundtrack practically makes this unwatchable.
22:49 in the bottom left corner it says on the sign “au bon diable”. Means to the good devil!!!
AT 28MIN13SEC, the picture is mirrored by mistake, should be the other way. The Bourse de commerce, the round building is actually on the left side, not on the right. As the main entrance with chapiteau of St-Eustache, should be on the left side of the picture.
The correct side is next sequence, in the dynamic axonometry.
Then they new how to build a beautiful city. It is declining ever since. It made Paris the most beautiful city in the world!
Paris is still transforming. It has become one of the leading cities in the world for green and sustainable development.
I mean in the sense of integral aesthetics; urban design-architecture, landscaping, and ornaments@@giovannimartin9576
the pious obsession with the condition of servants is pure mental laziness: a little reflection would show that at the time there was no water plumbing into homes; no sewer drains indoors; no electricity cables bringing power and light; no gas piping for heating, etc. All resources consumed had to be carried in - and out - by hand, as well as all communications. At the time there was no way of avoiding the need for labor. While now all the classes that did those jobs are no longer needed.
sempre defendendo seu território da colonização.
sempre defendendo sua colonização contra seu território
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In short it's was the Dubai of that Era
Came for the title, left for the music
Haussmann did it and Hidalgo is undoing it lol!!!
The whole orchestra is really over the top and not necessary.
So Haussmann was the Robert Moses of Paris.
Only in the broadest way. Their legacies are as different as Paris and NYC are different.
An emperor's dream come true.
35:52 Incorrect! The Apostle Paul is buried in San Paolo fuori le mura!
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Does anyone else think the thumbnail kinda looks like the millennium falcon
Only if Bangalore in India is rescued from the Herculean-stable mess x quintillion times that it has become, and return it at least to its early neatness, beauty and friendliness, can these engineers and designers be accepted as having capabilities.
I would pay good money for an AI app that would suppress all the useless music.
The dramatic music makes this video un-watchable. It should be re-edited.
🧐 Project "The bee honeycomb model of the conglomerates"Will Solve the Problem of Megacities 🐝. Archimedes XXI century 😇
The over the top dramatic music is annoying
that's the problem with american documentaries.. they are too over dramatized
Lol
@@sexynelson100 The worst are documentaries written as fiction, with twists and turns, unforeseen events, to build up the tension...
You should ask for your money back!
its your prefference
Love the music!
"My Lunch Break"
3²
The Victorian's were Britain's best urban planners, the urban planners of the 50s and 60s were the absolute worst......in British architectural history.
Cela aurait été la même chose à Paris, mais notre ville à la différence de Londres n’a pas subit de bombardements. Quand on voit la reconstruction du Havre et de Dunkerque, vous pouvez imaginer le pire. Et je trouve que Londres depuis est à nouveau une belle ville avec sa nouvelle architecture.
@@victormarie525merci. I think Paris has a beauty that is almost otherworldly, but London is more stimulating and dynamic, more open to the world, the new, the preposterous ( as every good circus should be)
Why the mess all over the screen? Dirt & cracks.
It's ancient footage 😉
Ya that effect was ridiculous.
All of that history destroyed
It's quite telling how an hour long documentary about Hausman failed to mention the Paris Commune as one of the main reason for rebuilding the city with wide boulevards. Although they came close when they mentioned solders supressing worker revolts and Hausman not wanting factories and workshops because he didn't want labourers. You know, the people who actually built his fancy roads and housing.
That's because you're wrong. In fact Hausmann was even dismissed by Napoleon III in 1870 whereas the pPris commune wasn't until spring of 1871. It is correct however that the constant revolutions and barricading of the streets from as far back as 1830 was a reason for widening the boulevards, which the Paris Commune is famous for. But wasn't even close to the sole reason why Hausmann rebuilt Paris. Check your facts before commenting.
Ah yes, the time-travelling Paris Commune.
The Commune happened AFTER the fall of Napoleon III and AFTER the creation of those wide boulevards. You're probably mistaking the Commune for the Trois Glorieuses of 1830 or the Revolution of 1848, which eventually led to the ascension of Napoleon III as President and then Emperor. But yes, suppressing revolts was indeed part of why those boulevards were created.
It should be spoken in French!
hectarr? hardly knowarr
By the way, you pronounce the first 's' in Les Halles.
Non
Surement pas, c'est un H aspiré
being american, everything was clean slate to go large. Paris is so old, they had to destroy to make it even better. 380km of sewer..that is alot of poop moving.
LASTTTT
That's funny.. Not even one mention of the Eiffel Tower.
It was built during the late 1880s, after most of the city infrastructure had been completed. Haussmann's tenure as "prefect" ended in 1970, nearly 20 years before the Eiffel Tower was built.
@@KaplanMike Oh yeh.. Thx
Built in 17 years…no
Oh PLEASE TOO LOUD MUSIC DESTROYS WATCHING sound editor needs FIRING STAT!!! Go away lousy stuff!!! Boo
@17:23 - topographers didn't have such a difficult job then as they do now. When these topographers mapped out Paris there was no curvature claculator from NASA and the earth was most definitely a stationary level plane and not a globe 24,901 miles in circumference. right?
The fact that you give earth circumfrence in miles says a lot on why topography seems complicated to you. Meter was defined during the french revolution as 1/40 000 000th of earth circumference (with a small error). So yes in 1860, people were fully aware of earth curvature. IT doesn't change anything to trignometry.
Music is terrible
Too bad London is not so orderly
@@debed5177 Where did you stay when you were in Paris ?
Oui mais aujourd'hui Londres est beaucoup plus civilisé. Si Paris est magnifique c est tout le reste qui ne va pas.
For international tourism, Bangkok has been the most visited city for many years now. Paris came second I believe. Paris is awesome regardless. 😊
Wow the most visited city on earth? I didn’t know that. I can’t imagine how cool Paris was 100 years ago. Everyone wanted to live or just be there. What a sorry state it’s in now 😩
It’s almost like a deliberate sabotage- sinister
Paris is cleaner and more beautiful now than it was in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Those were the decades (after its Haussmann transformation) when Paris was in a sorry state. I think the same applies to most major cities in Western Europe. Right now Paris (like many European cities) are seeing a rebirth of the "city beautiful" that had taken place roughly between 1850-1915.
wtf are you talking about ? ive lived there during my childhood, and it was horrid. pollution and cars everywhere, no semblance of putting the architecture on the map… got back in 2018 and again in 2022, and i was amazed how they improved the city. i think people should stop watching these boomer-style videos of « walking in paris feels like a third world country » when you’ve never been here before
It's better now than decades ago. I guess you've been seeing only its bad sides, not the totality. No city is perfect. Paris is an amazing city that is better than like 95% of all cities in the world IMO.
Aujourd'hui 'l' insécurité la saleté est partout. Et l immigration de masse incontrôlée donne une image de Paris catastrophique. 'les français de souche en ont marre !!!
what a annoying voice over
Music is unbearable! Can not finish that!
all lies! Tartarians built those structures
I want to buy a hamburger
Bangkok is the most visited city on earth.
Actually it is not, you gotta understand despite Paris having 22 million International visitors compared to Bangkok's 30 million, France itself is actually a reputable country with multiple other urban conglomerates in it, many people within the French community visit Paris like many people in America visit New York, that adds up Paris to total visitors over 44 million visitors a year; much more than bangkok
Maybe the most visited in the world by pedophiles. No, but joke aside, I have seen data that suggested something like that, or in any case, which suggested it's really up there with Paris and London.
@@truthfacts5438who knows how they are coming up with that number. Orlando has 74 million people visiting it annually but it’s not even mentioned in the top 10 most visited cities in the world. Change your search for most visited city in America and you’ll see Orlando topping the list with 74 million annual tourist visits.
Haiti Financed most if not all of this work.
One of the best city in the world but unfortunately just “destroyed” by those immigrants and overcrowded tourist
I agree. C est une catastrophe pour Paris et la France
I am one of the few people who do not like Parisian architecture.
I have been to Paris and no thank you
Hallalujah brother. See my comment above.
That's what they said when you arrived ? Poor thing...
@@Balrog2005😂
Wow this has to be one of the biggest lies in human history 😂
Have you been to Paris lately? what a shame look it up, rotting garbage and human waste, mattresses, and tents are just some of the obstacles to be navigated when you travel on foot, that is if you are brave enough, you are not safe even driving in your locked car, Paris is best avoided sadly.
Stop hanging out in the Red Light district or anywhere in the 18th district for that matter--in fact anywhere in northeastern Paris. 😁
The problem is immigration from Africa
Not all of Paris is like that. And a lot of improvement is going on lately because of the upcoming Olympics.
you visited during the garbage strike last winter right? also, not safe even in your car?? lmao
@@Nicki99779 are the photos and news reports fake?
Still the worst western city I've been to,,, well after San Francisco
Well this is Paris, I've never heard anyone say "I like Paris", either you hate it or you love it 🙃(Nevertheless the number of tourists who return after having already been there is one of the highest in the world)
Yea he had his hands in Africa's pocket!