Matthew Taunton 
Fictions of the City [PDF ebook] 
Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Haussman’s Paris and the Immeuble The London Suburbs The Rise of the Parisian Banlieue The London Council Estate Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

MATTHEW TAUNTON has taught at University College London, Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths College, Central St Martins and the Open University, UK. His research interests lie in British and French literature from the nineteenth century to the present, urban studies, media history and film. His journalism appears in the
New Statesman and the
Times Literary Supplement.