> That is bit too paranoid, some people want to live, not just protest. 18th century Paris was filthy place and needed makeover. Parisian urban revolts were a

> That is bit too paranoid, some people want to live, not just protest. 18th century Paris was filthy place and needed makeover. Parisian urban revolts were a regular occurrence[0]; it was an explicit goal to make them more difficult. The following quote is from the SlateStarCodex review[1] of Seeing Like a State. "This was a particular problem in Paris, which was famous for a series of urban insurrections in the 19th century (think Les Miserables, but about once every ten years or so). Although these generally failed, they were hard to suppress because locals knew the “terrain” and the streets were narrow enough to barricade. Slums full of poor people gathered together formed tight communities where revolutionary ideas could easily spread. The late 19th-century redesign of Paris had the explicit design of destroying these areas and splitting up poor people somewhere far away from the city center where they couldn’t do any harm." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Paris#Overcrowding,_disease,_crime,_and_unrest_in_the_centre_of_the_old_Paris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa... [1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like-a-state/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...