The parisians will appreciate the countryside starting at the gates of the jardin des tuileries (which by the way is how it is depicted in the game Assassin's Creed Unity, which is a below average game but gives you way to walk freely in a Paris under the revolution, and view many buildings and monuments that have since been destroyed).
Medieval maps of Paris were oriented West-East, thus offering the best views of church facades!
Note that this is a personal opinion shared as a child with my grandfather after years of family diner in front of his Truschet map.
For sure, there is no connection with "rive-gauche" / "rive-droite", this expression is based on the flow of the Seine, here it would have been the opposite of the map.
Medieval West-East maps on wiki (West on the top, North to the left):
- 1530 Braun and Hogenberg engraved map [1]
- 1550 Truschet and Hoyau engraved map [2]
- 1615 Merian map [3]
- also the 1370 Gough Map of Britain [4]
I wasn't expecting to see so many tall buildings. Even out at the edge, where it turns to farms, and even the farmhouses themselves, the buildings are mostly 3 or 4 stories! At least, if I'm correctly interpreting each horizontal row of windows as a floor of the house.
I've looked at few more areas, and I suppose a lot of the farmhouses are only 2 stories high.
My expectations were based on places with a lot more land, and therefore sprawl (examples of what I'm thinking of below). I do realise that modern Paris is more built up than this, but I didn't realise it would be as close as it is.
“But where the population is increasing rapidly and the city area is not, this traditional Roman house is disappearing. Due to lack of space, insula grows not outwards but upwards.
Already in the 3rd century BCE, most of these buildings have three floors - and will soon cross this barrier. Insula was supposed to generate profit for the owners- hence they were built very quickly, cheaply and very messily. Collapses or fires in insulae occurred more often than often. Hence the attempt to limit the height of Roman buildings by subsequent emperors, for example, Octavian
Augustus (maximum height 70 pes, Roman feet, just over 20 meters; 1 pes = ca 44.5 cm) or Trajan.
After a great fire in Rome, Nero limited its height to 60 pes. These restrictions did not apply in other cities of the empire, hence the surprise of the famous Strabo, that in the mentioned Tire the insulae are almost as impressive as in the capital.”
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For sure, there is no connection with "rive-gauche" / "rive-droite", this expression is based on the flow of the Seine, here it would have been the opposite of the map.
Medieval West-East maps on wiki (West on the top, North to the left): - 1530 Braun and Hogenberg engraved map [1] - 1550 Truschet and Hoyau engraved map [2] - 1615 Merian map [3] - also the 1370 Gough Map of Britain [4]
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_de_Braun_et_Hogenberg [2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_de_Truschet_et_Hoyau [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merian_map_of_Paris [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough_Map
I've looked at few more areas, and I suppose a lot of the farmhouses are only 2 stories high.
My expectations were based on places with a lot more land, and therefore sprawl (examples of what I'm thinking of below). I do realise that modern Paris is more built up than this, but I didn't realise it would be as close as it is.
What I was expecting: https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/film?phrase=aerial%20vi...
Fairer comparisons: https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/film?phrase=aerial%20vi...
Ancient Rome already had lots of tall buildings. https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/roman-skyscrapers/
“But where the population is increasing rapidly and the city area is not, this traditional Roman house is disappearing. Due to lack of space, insula grows not outwards but upwards.
Already in the 3rd century BCE, most of these buildings have three floors - and will soon cross this barrier. Insula was supposed to generate profit for the owners- hence they were built very quickly, cheaply and very messily. Collapses or fires in insulae occurred more often than often. Hence the attempt to limit the height of Roman buildings by subsequent emperors, for example, Octavian Augustus (maximum height 70 pes, Roman feet, just over 20 meters; 1 pes = ca 44.5 cm) or Trajan.
After a great fire in Rome, Nero limited its height to 60 pes. These restrictions did not apply in other cities of the empire, hence the surprise of the famous Strabo, that in the mentioned Tire the insulae are almost as impressive as in the capital.”
https://zoomviewer.toolforge.org/index.php?f=Turgot%20map%20...