4.Favorite+Urban+Planner

Georges-Eugène Haussmann

To create better projects and places to live we need more, new and renovate urban planners. We must learn from past mistakes, guide us through the most important model for urban planners and innovate with economic and technological resources according to new needs of the population. A clear example and model in history for urban planners is Baron Haussmann.

Georges-Eugène Haussmann was a [|French] civic planner born in 27th March of 1809. The rebuilding of Paris in the 19th century is associated with Haussman who was commissioned by Napoleón III to instigate a program of planning reforms in Paris. In this project Haussmann created new and more wide boulevards, a gigantic system of Zegers, new bridges, the opera house and anothers public buildings. Transformed an estimated that 60% of the buildings of Paris but one of the most important elements introduced by Haussmann was the creation of long avenues giving perspective views of monuments like the Arc de Triomphe and the Opera Garnier. Principals goals to Haussmann was to turn Paris into a Modern City. To achieve this dificult task Haussmann had to convert Paris in a city with safe streets, more sanitary, hospitable, shopper-friendly communities, better traffic flow , better housing combined with the new importance given to trains, made this plan more than successful. His wonderful ideas and his impressive intelligence made of him one of the most important urban planner in the history.

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** Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris. ** **Le Cobusier** This important french architect, designer and urban planner is one of the most important pionners of the Modern architecture. With his urban projects provides efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the housing crisis because he thinks that his projects and organizations will solve the life of the lower classes.



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