Tag: construction period

• A figure-ground map of Paris by building period

  This is a great tweet and link:

  Buildings of Paris from before 1800 vs 1800-1914. A reminder of how overwhelmingly what is widely celebrated in Europe's urban heritage is really the heritage of the long nineteenth century. From this brilliant database: https://t.co/fzXP1SFIQ0 pic.twitter.com/8VAwR41mMK

  — Samuel Hughes (@SCP_Hughes) December 13, 2021

  The link is to a figure-ground map of Paris that allows you to filter its buildings by period of construction. Here’s what all of the periods and all of the buildings look like:

  

  Once you play around with the map, it will become obvious that the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century was a prolific building period for Paris (1231 hectares of area). This is what Samuel was getting at in his tweet.

  I would love to see a map like this for every city in the world.

  2021.12.13