Paris During The 19th-Century

Cities, such as Paris and Vienna were physically reshaped in response to multiple problems they had during the early-nineteenth century. Paris during the early nineteenth century suffered from pollution, serious health issues, overpopulation, and safety. Migrants coming from rural area to Paris in search of industrial jobs along with the lack of public transportation, caused the areas in which the worked to become cluttered. With the overpopulation, landlords added additional floors to existing building causing narrow streets. The factories in which they worked in gave off clouds of smoke that damaged the air quality. A lot of people living in the same area created filthy alleys due to there not being a proper way of disposing household water