What You Need to Do For Today's Presentation

In Your Presentation for Today Include:

1) The question that you are answering

2) Several questions that you posed to yourselves to help develop an interpretation

3) The interpretation that you are going to defend in your Prezi

4) The evidence that you are using to support your interpretation

Question 1

What arguments have been presented to support Haussmann's changes to Paris? What evidence is presented to support this position? What values were implicit in this position?

 

 

Question 2

What arguments have been presented to criticize Haussmann's changes to Paris? What evidence is presented to criticize Haussmannization? What values were implicit in this position?

Question 3

Who were the winners and who were the losers in the changes that Haussmann brought to Paris? What evidence supports this evaluation of the impact of Haussmannization?

Question 4

Those who have applauded  Haussmannization have presented very different visions of Paris before and after these changes than have those who have attacked Haussmann's work. What aspects of Parisian life and history have each side foregrounded? What has each side ignored?

Demolition for Rue de Rennes

Thoughts on Today's Work

There are a number of important issues raised by the readings for today. Here are a few that you might think about as you prepare your presentations:

  • What is a city for? What makes a city better or worse?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of major changes that move from the top of society downward?
  • How does one's perspective and position in society affect whether change is seen as positive or negative?