Paris shaped the modern world through revolutions, ideas, and an epic 19th-century rebuild that turned medieval streets into a living, engineered city. This video traces that transformation and the ...

Ever since I visited Paris and London with Susan in 1997, I have wondered about the differences in the layout and design of both cities. They are wonderful and fascinating. I found central London to ...

The notorious city planner for Napoléon III, and prefect of the Seine region, Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann turned Paris from a still medieval urban area to a triumphant imperial city—Haussmann makes ...

The Haussmann style of architecture, which is also sometimes described as Haussmannian, is the classic architecture that has defined modern-day Paris, and is probably what you think of when you ...