GEOG 152 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paradise City, Tour Montparnasse, Revamp
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This book is about how people think about and understand the city, rather than a simple description of how the city really is. according to the author, such descriptions always turn out to have a sham coherence to them. Paris is too complicated to accommodate a single image or metaphor. Paradise of the world, cited by english bishop in 14th c. He named paris this b/c he loved books and paris had 28 bookstores at the time. Magnificent , peerless , place of delights = an earthly paradise; cited by travelers in late medieval paris. Travelers gave paris these titles due to its" food/wine abundance, universities, churches, fine arts, and beautiful nobility housing. Capital of civilized world cited by french authors of paris pittoresque. Guidebooks like these were the key to framing individual experiences with a collective memory. Model city , wonderful city , gayest city in world, cited by guidebook.
