This work offers a detailed investigation into the urban topology and cartographic history of Paris through a collection of what the authors term “fragments” — discrete observations of city-space, street grids, and the shifting interplay between architecture, memory and circulation. Combining topography, urban studies and historical cartography, the volume traces how Paris’s city-fabric reveals layered narratives of transformation, disruption and re-composition. The style is analytical and richly illustrated, offering scholars of urban planning, historical geography or architectural history a nuanced lens into how a major European city evolves in its spatial structure as much as its cultural meaning. Its contribution lies in linking small-scale urban traces (fragments) to broader processes of metropolitan change.
Author:Edith Crescenzi; Giovanni de Franciscis; Stefano Viola
Edition: 2004
Year of publication: 2004
Language: French (the description states “Lingua francese”)