ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns with the visual culture of space. While bearing in mind the difference of scale, it suggests that there are particular affinities between the reconstruction of both cities during the last decades of the nineteenth century and early 1900s. More often people are looking at parallel developments, but ones which give these cities more in common with each other than might first appear. On to an already established pattern of height, the nineteenth century as a whole imposed a huge expansion of multiple-unit housing, with particular developments during its last three decades. What was more, and this has a direct bearing on the central theme of the book, there was a considerable increase in the number of prominent public buildings, mostly catering for the well-being, culture and leisure of the middle classes.
