Abstract
The Boulevard Haussmann, running 2.53 kilometers from the 8th to the 9th arrondissement, is one of the wide tree-lined boulevards created in Paris during the Second French Empire by Baron Haussmann, with enthusiastic support from Napoleon III who wanted to renovate medieval Paris. The project encompassed all aspects of urban planning, both in the centre of Paris and in the surrounding districts; streets sand boulevards, regulations imposed on facades of buildings, public parks, water works, city facilities and public monuments. Its long, straight, wide boulevards with their cafés and shops determined a new type of urban scenario and have had a profound positive productive influence on the everyday life of Parisians. Haussmann's boulevards established the foundation of what is today the popular representation of the French capital around the world, by cutting through old Paris.
