Legendary Megastructures | The Gigantic Architectural Transformation of Paris | FD Engineering

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Attraction and popularity of Paris are off the charts The aesthetics of Paris is immeasurable and is full of mysterious feeings and graceful and beautiful and historical scenery

[@Anthonythumb]

I have searched several videos on KZbin but all have AI. France is the most beautiful country on our earth. There are vibrant cities (not only Paris) charming villages, mountains, Mediterranean cities. It is an absolutely stunning country. Add it the language which sounds so romantic to and English speaking ear, this country is fantastic. Vive La France 🇫🇷

[@christianterraes8334]

C est dommage qu il soit envahi par des indésirables qui nous vient 'principalement du continent Africain. Ceux de l Asie ne nous posent pas de problèmes.

[@luishernandezblonde]

Napoleon III, what a man. Didn't have the feat of military like his uncle, but dude was a talented designer. Together with Haussmann, they built up new Paris.

[@Vikram_l]

A quality production. Very informative. Thanks a lot !!

[@blueeyedsoulman]

These guys were insanely talented.

[@franciscofranco8089]

Absolument! Their creative genius were out of this world! No computers; no calculators. Just their hands and their minds. Vooow!

[@suechef9026]

Truly, 'a thing of beauty is a joy forever' - can be said of Paris!

[@marinedrive5484]

Just as well Paris was rebuilt in an age that valued classical architecture for its beauty and human scale.

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

I love French architecture it elegant

[@christianterraes8334]

Absolument

[@christianterraes8334]

Ça c est vrai. Hélas c est tout le reste qui ne va pas comme l insécurité etc....

[@bncrain]

"OK, it's time to work on the 3D visualizations-what's our budget, again?" "Um, we only have $111.45 left after paying everyone in the 2,000-piece orchestra we hired for the soundtrack." "Damn. OK, just do one flythrough of a few blocks of identical buildings and we can show it every 3-4 minutes. No one will notice..."

[@KristaR1158]

@bncrain 😂

[@lacharpie]

what a nice documentary. thank you for this wonderful piece of history

[@Said_w_the_G]

It’s amazing what can be done with a monarch’s money and no real legislative hurdles, Paris! Now with plumbing!

[@J0HN_D03]

France is not the same since it's a republic...

[@christianterraes8334]

À cette époque là France 'était la Chine' d aujourd'hui des usines partout des exportations partout une richesse industrielle

[@brucehutch5419]

Tear down and rebuild the city with wonderful architecture in 17 years. In the USA now the feasibility studies and environmental impact studies wouldn't get done in 17 years. It would take a couple of billions for the high highly overpaid consultants and experts to scratch their heads over this. Not to mention the protests and and Foundations set up to protest The Proposal.

[@dufjdh3u87rhhdbhfhd]

Suprise! All government workers now work from home and nobody is at the public offices to even answer the phone. Getting them to even accept submittal packages is like Mother May I? Oh and that will be $12,000. We don't even make that much on the project as the designers!

[@jean-lucfrotey7604]

Rassurez vous en France maintenant c'est pareil peut être plus car nous avons un service d'état qui s'appel ( les monuments historique) qui décide de tout . S ans compter sur les archéologues car souvent vu l'age du pays des que vous creusez en France vous trouvez toujours quelque chose.

[@Orthodoge]

Every City needs a Haussmann

[@sapfothoidou]

All Greece needs him 😮

[@MrBoliao98]

What makes you think every city needs this?

[@gabe.6273]

It caused the mass destruction of neighborhoods, it got so bad that he was fired eventually by Napoleon from the huge protests.

[@josephmiele2277]

that's how we got Robert Moses

[@J0HN_D03]

Yes but it's better like that! Paris is unique 😊

[@bankerdave888]

We need Haussmann in Los Angeles to get rid of the trash and rebuild most of the downtown.

[@J0HN_D03]

❤Paris est MAGNIFIQUE. Paris is WONDERFUL.❤

[@randomxaos]

Wow.... Baron was quite the ambitious fellow. GREAT informative video!!!

[@Hiro_Trevelyan]

The separation between service and occupants seems shocking today but it was common back then, it's not specific to Paris. It was pretty common in bourgeois houses and manors, it's just being applied to high-density housing. Also there was coal to move to the kitchen, using the "master's" entrance would leave coal dust on the corridor carpet (which would only add more work for cleaners). Not that I condone it though. In 2016 some people refused to elevate their elevators to the last floors despite being able to do it, just because they don't want to share it with the people above, forcing them to climb stairs the entire way (because the stairs are still separated today). People can be so selfish.

[@idon.t2156]

The rich, I read, not the poor.

[@paco7992]

I like how your credits came in, very professional. You are creating a very good program here.

[@betty5064]

The wide boulevards and straight streets made it much more difficult to run a revolution, like the ones that brought the Napoleons to power. And clear sights to fire.....

[@gspaulsson]

In Paris one day, before Google Maps, needing to catch the London train and navigating the maze of streets, I looked down one grand boulevard after another, each leading to some monumental building, and kept thinking: "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la gare."

[@CarthagoMike]

I have had the same feeling in Paris long ago. Such a beautiful city, great to wander in, but terrible when you need to reach a specific destination.

[@stephenkelly7397]

Me2

[@Tortuex_]

😂😂

[@micade2518]

Hihihi ... I, a Parisian, understand fully what you mean and how you felt. I find the French very bad at signalling and I often pest about the difficulty to even find the name plaque of a street or the buildings' numbers. But, fun anecdote (and fond souvenir), when I arrived in London, years ago, where I stayed for a decade, I had to take a bus to go to my English school that was situated in Soho. I'd been told to get off the bus at Trafalgar Square. Besides the fact that I had to repeat my destination 3 times to the bus conductor who, when he finally understood me, exclaimed "Ah, Trafaaaalgar Square" (those tonic accents, the "music" of languages!) every time we passed some few square yards of grass with a bench, I'd ask other passengers "Is this Trafaaaaalgar Square?", since, here, any small patch of grass can be called "a Square" and, bizarrely, I had never seen any picture of the place before. 😀 Reassuring difference, though, is that Paris is a very small city, compared to London. So, should you get lost, it'll never be for long. PS: Before Google was invented, there were pretty paper maps! 😉

[@enriquesanchez2001]

♥@@micade2518

[@christianterraes8334]

Ah cette époque c est la révolution industrielle à plein des usines partout on exportait partout la France 'était richissime c était' la Chine 'd aujourd'hui. Et c'est à ce moment que Paris' à 'été' modernisé et d une façon 'élégante et très beau. C est indiscutable.

[@andreaschlosser9316]

Wonderful documentary about the fashioning of modern Paris by Hausmann. Thx ❤

[@ayoubbounafaa5967]

C'est vraiment une vraie leçon á de ne jamais baisser les bras face á l'adversité Aussi il y a la valeur de coeching et motivation apporté par les deux experts

[@dangerduguid]

soooooo mmaaaaaaannnnnyy ccccoooommmmmerrrrciiialllllssss.....

[@sam4457]

My president should really watch this @KE😅Napoleon had the vision and Haussmann was the man for the job, What great men you have France😎

[@daumantsbrunins]

Impressive and fascinating ❤

[@ikmarchini]

Haussmann buildings had the balconies on 1st (noble) and 5th floors. But social class concerns dictated as well the 6th floor was where the domestic help lived. With one toilet on the floor there were cubicles 8-12 m2. These were reachable by back stairs as help were not allowed on the elevators. These rooms are called 'chambre de bonne', or room for the good (help). Still all over the city today sharing that toilet. Ask me, spent too many years there. NB, the ground floor is the Rez de Chausee, or carriage level. Next floor up is the first, what we call the second.

[@CPNTT]

Bonne means "maid", these are maid rooms :)

[@stespfr]

I had the luck to live in a premium version of those chambres de bonnes : 1st district, between Louvres, Pyramides and Opéra, 4 chambres turned into a 30m2 apartment, one bedroom, with its own bathroom. It was super cute and actually not that expensive. It was on the 7th floor though, no elevator, just this steep, tiny staircase to get to the place. And it was hot as hell in summer, and always kind of cold in the winter.

[@lvaka]

[@petervarley3078]

Very informative video so thank you for putting it online. However, it would have been better without the overly dramatic, intrusive music. Sometimes it drowns out the narration.

[@LouisGins]

The demolition of Les Halles in the 60s is a national shame.

[@ViolentKisses87]

Don't worry the destruction of French culture today won't leave anyone left in Little Algeria to remember Les Halles.

[@baboushko]

Algerians are in marseille

[@cornelisachtenzestig5533]

Very enjoyable docu. Thank you. It could have been better if the dramatic music had been tuned down. It is really over the top at times.

[@louiskleyn6775]

Amazing documentary

[@Theodisc]

Haussmann even destroyed the familial home he was raised in in Paris driving through his boulevards. He levelled just about all of the Île de la Cité, removing the mediaeval Hôtel Dieu (which had spanned two banks), but leaving Notre Dame and the Sainte Chapelle of course. He rearranged many of the bridges that connected to that isle so they lined up nicely as well. And the French call those apartment blocks which line the boulevards he created _immeubles haussmanniens._ 🐓

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@damiaanspatrick2050]

Emperor Napoleon III , my client, made some artworks for his tomb at Farnborough Abby.

[@thibaudduhamel2581]

From a frenchman, thank you for keeping his tomb alive. A shame he couldn't be burried in France. Did you see the tomb of his son? He died fighting for the british army in zululand

[@damiaanspatrick2050]

@@thibaudduhamel2581 Son, Emperor and Empress are in the same crypt. If you google, "Stolen Altar Card Frames of the Crypt of Napoleon III " there is more info.

[@abe000torte]

Whe should have keep the old Halles. at least a part of it and create a park on the rest. That would have been great and so much better than what we had after the destruction.

[@EleyReiHer]

It is a massive masterplan! Bravo 👌👏

[@christinecollins6648]

All my questions answered! Love this❤

[@MUSICOM2]

Then they new how to build a beautiful city. It is declining ever since. It made Paris the most beautiful city in the world!

[@johannes_keeper]

Paris is still transforming. It has become one of the leading cities in the world for green and sustainable development.

[@MUSICOM2]

I mean in the sense of integral aesthetics; urban design-architecture, landscaping, and ornaments@@johannes_keeper

[@raymondpeterson952]

Really good vid. Thanks for posting

[@HowlingWo1f]

The whole orchestra is really over the top and not necessary.

[@janusconner3710]

Before Haussman (and Napoleon III) the "City of Light" was a maze-like cesspool. Noted.

[@janusconner3710]

J'Adore Paris!!! If I win the lottery guess where I'm retiring. I love that it's flat af like my home state of Florida lol

[@gerritliskow2399]

We're all quite shocked, I'm sure, to hear of the idea of the live-in servant(s), but I do seem to remember that up into the 1960s or 1980s even, having at least the odd empleada or two was a social norm e.g. in Buenos Aires for anyone who wanted to be considered at least remotely mid class. I grant you servants weren't banished to some sordid little cubicle under the roof like in Paris, but were living in the same apartment with the families. Still, there was that vicious building standard called double circulation whereby servants were duly kept apart from their señores. Meaning, they had their own entrance, stairs, and sometimes even elevators and confined themselves to the laundry, the kitchen and their quarters when they weren't required ad hoc. These were of course the mythical dark ages before everything you needed to run a household was electrically powered and came in discreet little chunks and packages that only wanted thawing and warming up. When the average family size was five or six people, instead of one or two as per today. So, I suppose this aspect of the bourgeoisie is utterly shocking to our fragile modern sensibilities, but that's domestic service for you and nobody could do without it then, not least the servants who simply wouldn't have had gainful employment without it.

[@slavmarin7827]

thank you!

[@nonokbh]

Genius.

[@KrulliKlikk]

The over the top dramatic music is annoying

[@sexynelson100]

that's the problem with american documentaries.. they are too over dramatized

[@samjrdiaz6003]

Lol

[@Petitmoi74]

@@sexynelson100 The worst are documentaries written as fiction, with twists and turns, unforeseen events, to build up the tension...

[@imtired1696]

You should ask for your money back!

[@clementechs]

its your prefference

[@bipinmore6346]

Very informative but I certainly feel few points like the sewerage system and water supply could have more detailed..so as the parks, railway station, hospital if any

[@boxsterman77]

It’s insane they eschewed even wrecking balls.

[@WoodenBell504]

22:49 in the bottom left corner it says on the sign “au bon diable”. Means to the good devil!!!

[@导演文森吴]

It’s funny how you see the last remnants of tv channel productions that use stylistic elements like dramatic music and fast changing scenes that differ so much from productions of KZbin creators. These kind of documentaries will soon be a relict of the past.

[@christianterraes8334]

Nous devons être idiot... Mais où vous voulez en venir !!???

[@madelinejeanhibbert2413]

they also built the roads bigger and more apart so that way they armies could target protesters easier. All of the little alleyways and small streets had been perfect for revolting/during the revolution. They could build easier defenses and have more ways to maneuver, but now with wider streets it became harder. So while prettier, it also doubled as a preemptive way to avoid more protests.

[@fp2374]

Haussmann did it and Hidalgo is undoing it lol!!!

[@williamstringer6519]

Sir Christopher Wren had great plans to achieve something similar in London after the great fire, but the political situation in London then was vastly different from France under an autocracy. Still, it would have been beautiful if it had been achieved.

[@sylvaincroissant7650]

Autocracy my eye... The UK has a class system to this day and the money goes up and hardly ever trickles down. Look at the HS2 recently. And look at the TGV program in France. Unless you would argue that nowadays France is more of an autocracy than the current UK. The same was true at the time of Napoleon III. The ruling class in the UK does not want to invest for the general public. You have a plutocracy plus a class system/monarchy. And the delusion that actually the "king/queen has no real power so this is ok".

[@heliedecastanet1882]

Autocracy is the word used for the Russian regime, not for France under Napoleon III. I guess the difference is that Paris, historically, only depended on the king, whereas London was shared by multiple owners (the king, the duke of Westminster, etc, etc). In those conditions, I guess it was more difficult for the British government to coordinate a common development of the city of London.

[@ludovicgarcon8915]

AT 28MIN13SEC, the picture is mirrored by mistake, should be the other way. The Bourse de commerce, the round building is actually on the left side, not on the right. As the main entrance with chapiteau of St-Eustache, should be on the left side of the picture.

[@ludovicgarcon8915]

The correct side is next sequence, in the dynamic axonometry.

[@relaxingsleepaudio2320]

The Music is too loud..

[@ramthian]

Thanks 🙏 ❤

[@prakashkn8263]

In 1850 The great architecture built paris India need haussmann

[@alexzicker]

the pious obsession with the condition of servants is pure mental laziness: a little reflection would show that at the time there was no water plumbing into homes; no sewer drains indoors; no electricity cables bringing power and light; no gas piping for heating, etc. All resources consumed had to be carried in - and out - by hand, as well as all communications. At the time there was no way of avoiding the need for labor. While now all the classes that did those jobs are no longer needed.

[@equinox95]

The Victorian's were Britain's best urban planners, the urban planners of the 50s and 60s were the absolute worst......in British architectural history.

[@victormarie525]

Cela aurait été la même chose à Paris, mais notre ville à la différence de Londres n’a pas subit de bombardements. Quand on voit la reconstruction du Havre et de Dunkerque, vous pouvez imaginer le pire. Et je trouve que Londres depuis est à nouveau une belle ville avec sa nouvelle architecture.

[@toffthe]

​@@victormarie525merci. I think Paris has a beauty that is almost otherworldly, but London is more stimulating and dynamic, more open to the world, the new, the preposterous ( as every good circus should be)

[@Niclouyat]

I jusþ watched the pick pockets and fake drugs in Amsterdam, brilliant episode.

[@t3mhua]

It's unique. 1 of a kind. I wouldn't recommend replication.

[@t3mhua]

It's a celebration of the sun.

[@t3mhua]

In the US, the closest is Indianapolis, Indiana.

[@Anthonythumb]

@@t3mhualol you have nothing even close to Paris in the United States. I admire how you think so, but no. France is another level you would not even understand :)

[@minniefontein1665]

The audio is irritating 😢

[@SpaTelliteAM]

Did the latest Pokemon: Legends ZA bring you here?

[@Sushi2735]

Any society that felt it was ok to pee on the floor in Versailles of course will live in stank! The sheer thought of the body fluid odors in this day and age is unimaginable!

[@ChachouLP]

Not everybody was peeing on the floor at Versailles you know ;)

[@sandrinecicatello7379]

Music too loud

[@stevepotfora7461]

Informative and beautifully produced- except for the music. The suspenseful, dramatic, LOUD soundtrack practically makes this unwatchable.

[@duckbizniz663]

A major achievement in urban planning and modern architecture. Of course, many people lost their residence in order to rebuild Paris. It could not have happened under republican government when Napoleon III was popularly elected. It can only happen under Emperor Napoleon III of the second French Empire where the government can do anything it wants to do. Plus there is no way a government can pay for the removal of existing residents, destruction of existing structure, and the building of new structures. One of the expert erroneously said that the government created jobs for laborers. Did it? Usually governments do not create job or economic growth. Governments tax the middle class and upper class to pay for its public programs. Private investors had to be brought in order to fund the building of new structures. It cannot be denied that modern Paris is a beautiful city, but the price paid was high.

[@vickomen333]

saw this arrangement during the 2024 Olympics in Paris

[@gagangangwal4235]

In short it's was the Dubai of that Era

[@ethanYT_1219]

I genuinely thought these were reuploaded Discover Channel archives

[@rsnankivell1962]

Le plan Hausmann était alors absolument nécessaire et une question de survie pour la ville de cette époque. Paris en 1850 était la ville la plus dense et la plus insalubre de toute l’Europe. Les parisiens vivaient dans des conditions de surpopulation et les épidémies de toutes sortes étaient continues. Mais ensuite, côté négatif, dans ce « nouveau » Paris, toute cette classe sociale défavorisée, qui n’avait plus les moyens d’y vivre, a été expulsée de la ville vers la banlieue, faisant de Paris une ville de riches… jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

[@Mike-gb3dh]

An emperor's dream come true.

[@peterdurand3098]

I would pay good money for an AI app that would suppress all the useless music.

[@munchkin8019]

Right! They over do it 😩

[@jmc8076]

Sadly agree. Maybe a belief all videos have to be mini HWood movies now? I miss old YT and doc videos.

[@jaysonbrandon9505]

My gf said it gave her anxiety while nothing was happening

[@chandraravikumar]

Only if Bangalore in India is rescued from the Herculean-stable mess x quintillion times that it has become, and return it at least to its early neatness, beauty and friendliness, can these engineers and designers be accepted as having capabilities.

[@jorgemartinez1335]

Came for the title, left for the music

[@michaeljhones6845]

sempre defendendo seu território da colonização.

[@lvaka]

sempre defendendo sua colonização contra seu território

[@christianterraes8334]

??????

[@archimedesxxicentury]

🧐 Project "The bee honeycomb model of the conglomerates"Will Solve the Problem of Megacities 🐝. Archimedes XXI century 😇

[@jessed0308]

Did the templars build Paris?

[@davedebang-bang6168]

Does anyone else think the thumbnail kinda looks like the millennium falcon

[@skiptoacceptancemdarlin]

“Paris owes its entire development to two men.” … maybe even three. 😂

[@Evemeister12]

So Haussmann was the Robert Moses of Paris.

[@sr.gateau]

Only in the broadest way. Their legacies are as different as Paris and NYC are different.

[@HF7-AD]

Robert Moses but with good ideas

[@ricardospinace1956]

The dramatic music makes this video un-watchable. It should be re-edited.

[@ulyks]

It's quite telling how an hour long documentary about Hausman failed to mention the Paris Commune as one of the main reason for rebuilding the city with wide boulevards. Although they came close when they mentioned solders supressing worker revolts and Hausman not wanting factories and workshops because he didn't want labourers. You know, the people who actually built his fancy roads and housing.

[@NickVennlig]

That's because you're wrong. In fact Hausmann was even dismissed by Napoleon III in 1870 whereas the pPris commune wasn't until spring of 1871. It is correct however that the constant revolutions and barricading of the streets from as far back as 1830 was a reason for widening the boulevards, which the Paris Commune is famous for. But wasn't even close to the sole reason why Hausmann rebuilt Paris. Check your facts before commenting.

[@lsq7833]

Ah yes, the time-travelling Paris Commune.

[@MatthewMrMy]

The Commune happened AFTER the fall of Napoleon III and AFTER the creation of those wide boulevards. You're probably mistaking the Commune for the Trois Glorieuses of 1830 or the Revolution of 1848, which eventually led to the ascension of Napoleon III as President and then Emperor. But yes, suppressing revolts was indeed part of why those boulevards were created.

[@ZeNN-Music]

What about the metro?

[@bgd73]

being american, everything was clean slate to go large. Paris is so old, they had to destroy to make it even better. 380km of sewer..that is alot of poop moving.

[@terrytaylor5192]

The intention of it all.

[@brando_taurus]

Love the music!

[@BingGeaux]

@17:23 - topographers didn't have such a difficult job then as they do now. When these topographers mapped out Paris there was no curvature claculator from NASA and the earth was most definitely a stationary level plane and not a globe 24,901 miles in circumference. right?

[@Difdauf]

The fact that you give earth circumfrence in miles says a lot on why topography seems complicated to you. Meter was defined during the french revolution as 1/40 000 000th of earth circumference (with a small error). So yes in 1860, people were fully aware of earth curvature. IT doesn't change anything to trignometry.

[@florian8599]

35:52 Incorrect! The Apostle Paul is buried in San Paolo fuori le mura!

[@anythingyounameit-t9g]

여긴 프랑스?

[@christianterraes8334]

Question idiote

[@v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096]

Why the mess all over the screen? Dirt & cracks.

[@juliusvinh109]

It's ancient footage 😉

[@ralphd.4857]

Ya that effect was ridiculous.

[@lindabuck2777]

Oh PLEASE TOO LOUD MUSIC DESTROYS WATCHING sound editor needs FIRING STAT!!! Go away lousy stuff!!! Boo

[@christianwitness]

Music is terrible

[@pineappleparadise8068]

12000 Houses (including Haussmann's own) were demolished just to make city more like London. Wider streets just so protestors could be 'caught' faster. Half of the city couldn't even afford to leave and then suddenly they were homeless and pushed away from the city. It looks great, they managed to do some major improvments like railways and sewage but at what cost? The gap between the rich and the poor got wider and wider day by day just like the streets of Paris. Paris became the city of rich and that is what makes it beautiful today unfortunately.

[@sylvaincroissant7650]

Well not really. Paris does not look at all like London. Also the gentrification of Paris is very recent (30 years). Up to the 1980s, Paris was the city of the people and anyone in France could go and relocate to the capital city. You had artisans and blue collar workers everywhere, and social mixing happened within the richest Hausmann buildings, as it was a built in feature: ground floor was artisans shop, retail shops or restaurants, then the floor above was for the richest, then came the middle class on the above floors, up to the top floor for the poorer (students, maids, artists...). Everyone met each other at the ground floor access door.

[@pineappleparadise8068]

@@sylvaincroissant7650 I didn't know about the recent history, what I said was what I learned about the issue in my Urban Space Design lectures. Thank you for the information, I'll look better into it :)

[@melinat9584]

It should be spoken in French!

[@wardrobegirl67]

Built in 17 years…no

[@seansmith445]

All of that history destroyed

[@aljawisa]

"My Lunch Break"

[@BeavKsam]

👍

[@yeungeddie]

LASTTTT

[@conanedogawa2998]

Paris is a beautiful city, but a lot of pickpockets