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Agreed, there's a bit of survivorship bias. For an idea of poor construction in the 19th century, look at some of the streets pre-Hausmann's renovation of Paris
by matthewaveryusa 8y ago
Agreed, there's a bit of survivorship bias. For an idea of poor construction in the 19th century, look at some of the streets pre-Hausmann's renovation of Paris:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
- Terr_ 8y ago> The Bievre river was used to dump the waste from the tanneries of Paris; it emptied into the Seine. Even before reading the caption, that picture -- absent any obvious tourist landmarks -- immediately made me think of the same location rendered in one of the Assassin's Creed games... I can't tell whether that's funny, sad, or bizarrely positive. Maybe all three.