Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand

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Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand was a prominent 19th-century French engineer and urban planner known for helping transform Paris’s parks, boulevards, and public spaces under Baron Haussmann.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French public official
civil engineer
human
urban planner
collaboratedWith Georges-Eugène Haussmann
countryOfCitizenship France
employer Paris
surface form: City of Paris

French public administration
familyName Alphand
fieldOfWork civil engineering
landscape architecture
urban planning
genre urban design of parks and promenades
givenName Adolphe
Jean-Charles
influenced later urban park design in France
subsequent urban planning in Paris
knownFor helping transform Paris’s boulevards
helping transform Paris’s parks
helping transform Paris’s public spaces
movement Haussmannization of Paris
nativeLanguage French
notableProject creation and improvement of Paris boulevards
design and development of Paris parks
development of public promenades in Paris
modernization of Paris public spaces in the 19th century
notableRole key collaborator of Baron Haussmann in Paris urban renewal
notableWork development of Parisian boulevards in the Second Empire
transformation of Parisian parks and public spaces under Baron Haussmann
occupation civil servant
engineer
urban planner
placeOfActivity Second Empire of France
surface form: Second French Empire Paris
sexOrGender male
workLocation Paris
workPeriod 19th century

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1889 Exposition Universelle commissionerGeneral Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand
Bois de Vincennes landscapedBy Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand