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Une ville des jardins: The Consiglio d'Ornato and the Urban Transformation of Nice (1832-1860).
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Journal of Urban History . Jul2019, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p786-812. 27p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This article examines the urban transformation of Nice in the early nineteenth century. It does so using the papers of the Consiglio d'Ornato (1832-1860), an urban planning committee charged with overseeing the development of the city at a time of demographic and economic growth brought about by tourism. This article argues that the Consiglio cooperated with private speculators to create a city rooted in a series of myths—Orientalist, Greco-Roman, and early Christian—that both shaped and were shaped by the expectations of world-wearied tourists. Nice was turned into a commodity whose purpose was to provide tourists with a feeling of fleeing a modern world characterized by instability and inauthenticity. Paradoxically, as a direct result, Nice became one of the earliest cities to experience a modern form of consumer capitalism in which people, places, cultures, and nature itself were packaged and peddled to the leisured classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *URBAN history
*URBAN planning
*TOURISM
*CAPITALISM
*ECLECTICISM in architecture
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00961442
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Urban History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137002300
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218768499