{"title":"Peter S. Soppelsa","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter S. Soppelsa’s works invite readers into a richly detailed exploration of history and urban transformation, with a particular focus on the shaping of modern cities. His careful research and engaging narrative style bring historical events and their lasting impact vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpecialising in the intersection of social and architectural history, \u003cem\u003eParis After Haussmann\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies Soppelsa’s skill in tracing the monumental changes that defined European cityscapes. Readers can expect thoughtful accounts blending cultural insight with historical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paris-after-haussmann-by-peter-s-soppelsa-9780822948827","title":"Paris After Haussmann","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eModern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussmannization,” helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded and modernised, some Parisians were left behind: as late as 1928, 18 percent of houses still lacked direct sewerage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaussmannization often hid infrastructures behind walls and floors, under streets, or in peripheral districts. In the forty years after 1870, a period that Peter Soppelsa calls \u003cem\u003esecondary Haussmannization\u003c\/em\u003e, Parisians inverted them—revealed their hidden components to scrutinise their workings and costs for society, environment, and health—and in turn politicised them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on French government archives, engineers’ maps, the illustrated press, and a collection of over 100 photographic postcards, Soppelsa charts the diverse embodied, emotional, and everyday experiences of living with expanding urban infrastructures—streets, housing, tramways, subways, the water supply, sewers, and rivers—in Paris from 1870 to 1914. Parisians learned that infrastructures were not simply technical solutions for the social and environmental problems of city life but could also bring about new dangers and dependencies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934177280236,"sku":"9780822948827","price":375.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24d7298cc55ff410892129c4b16bba9e.jpg?v=1783906768"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/peter-s-soppelsa.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}