%0 Journal Article
%T Une ville des jardins: The Consiglio d¡¯Ornato and the Urban Transformation of Nice (1832
%A David Geoffrey Moak
%J Journal of Urban History
%@ 1552-6771
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0096144218768499
%X This article examines the urban transformation of Nice in the early nineteenth century. It does so using the papers of the Consiglio d¡¯Ornato (1832-1860), an urban planning committee charged with overseeing the development of the city at a time of demographic and economic growth brought about by tourism. This article argues that the Consiglio cooperated with private speculators to create a city rooted in a series of myths¡ªOrientalist, Greco-Roman, and early Christian¡ªthat both shaped and were shaped by the expectations of world-wearied tourists. Nice was turned into a commodity whose purpose was to provide tourists with a feeling of fleeing a modern world characterized by instability and inauthenticity. Paradoxically, as a direct result, Nice became one of the earliest cities to experience a modern form of consumer capitalism in which people, places, cultures, and nature itself were packaged and peddled to the leisured classes
%K Nice
%K France
%K tourism
%K urbanism
%K nineteenth century
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144218768499