The Ringstrasse and Haussmann’s boulevards were built to police uprisings

Evidence

The location of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce on the Ringstrasse was heavy with symbolism and helps illustrate the milieu out of which the Austrian strain of neoliberalism emerged. … Both urban renewal proj­ects created arteries of commerce and transportation in medieval cities, building wide streets that could serve si­mul­ta­neously as sites of cultural enrichment in their opera ­houses and museums, expressions of state power in their monuments, and sites of consumption in their shop win­dows and sidewalk cafes. The wide streets would also make it harder for ­future insurgents to build the barricades that characterized the revolutions of 1848. Both designs included arsenals and barracks for the easy deployment of troops to quell domestic threats. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 121

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to James C. Scott’s work on legibility and state-ordered urban design as control infrastructure. — connects to: Police provocateurs materially shaped revolutionary movements in Czarist Russia and Louis Napoleon’s France

Broader Connections

• Police provocateurs materially shaped revolutionary movements in Czarist Russia and Louis Napoleon’s France #expands (0.75)