An Ordinary City: The Geneology of Lyon's Left Bank, 1781-1914

The “ordinary” parts of cities, the parts that slip past urban development plans and major urban projects, remain little known despite the growing interest they attract among researchers of urban morphology. To gain insight into them, the historian Anne-Sophie Clémençon has investigated the past of Lyon’s “rive gauche”. The result is a magnificent, richly documented urban saga, of immense methodological value.