In the article “Telling ‘Spatial Stories’: Urban Space and Bourgeois Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris” (Journal of Modern History, 2003), Victoria E. Thompson explores how the ideologies of the middle class, expressed through literature, had a significant impact on the organization of society, and the physicality of landscape in Paris surrounding the July Revolution of 1830. During this time, social class and landscape were under construction, and as a result, the formation of the new large middle class was in need of an identity and took advantage of their presence and power of the urban landscape to help differentiate themselves among the wealthy and poor.
Spatial stories, fictional narrative accounts of the everyday occurrences between the social classes in specific urban locations, influenced the middle class through the …show more content…
While the poor merchants cluttered the public streets impacting the middle class’ route, the close quarter of the lower class homes increased the spread of cholera in the city. The middle class disliked the clutter of the streets and were fearful of the dark and hidden qualities of the poor homes (the middle class was aware of the existence of the wealthy’s private quarters, the lower class’ private areas were unknown) . The middle class, accustomed to their public and private sections of land, were disgruntled with the poor. However, Parisian authorities decided that opening up public space, such as creating wider streets, would hinder middle class revolutions and the spread of disease.streets. Thompson chose this multifaceted evidence to prove that the integration of the two social classes manipulated the landscape to best fit suit the needs of the people, as well as describing the importance of public and private life among the middle
Spatial stories, fictional narrative accounts of the everyday occurrences between the social classes in specific urban locations, influenced the middle class through the …show more content…
While the poor merchants cluttered the public streets impacting the middle class’ route, the close quarter of the lower class homes increased the spread of cholera in the city. The middle class disliked the clutter of the streets and were fearful of the dark and hidden qualities of the poor homes (the middle class was aware of the existence of the wealthy’s private quarters, the lower class’ private areas were unknown) . The middle class, accustomed to their public and private sections of land, were disgruntled with the poor. However, Parisian authorities decided that opening up public space, such as creating wider streets, would hinder middle class revolutions and the spread of disease.streets. Thompson chose this multifaceted evidence to prove that the integration of the two social classes manipulated the landscape to best fit suit the needs of the people, as well as describing the importance of public and private life among the middle