How Did Paris Change Between 1800 And 1900

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I think people of Paris, France, and Vienna, Austria would have been blown away with the drastic changes between the 1800’s and 1900’s. Many positive, benefiting changes took place for both cities in the late 1800’s through the 1900’s. In the early 1800’s conditions in Paris and Vienna were very unsanitary and overly crowded. Movement within the streets was almost challenging by foot, and almost impossible with horse and buggy. Rapid population growth and no expansion to the cities is what I believe led to the horrid conditions read within this PDF file. Both Paris and Vienna sustained a rapid and planned transformation from a congested, walled city to a modern metropolis in the nineteenth century with a central government driven initiative