QUESTION 2

nWhat classes seem to have occupied the new buildings constructed along Hausmann?s boulevards and the Ringstrasse boulevards in Vienna?? Where do the sources suggest that persons of lower income were forced to live?? Why does an economically segregated housing pattern evolve?n

SOLUTION

nThe buildings along Hausmann?s boulevards were occupied by middle-and upper-class Parisians. This is buttressed by the architects plan in source 12 whereby it can be noticed by the plans that the apartments had all basic necessities one would expect in middle-and- upper class apartments of that era such as parlors, dining rooms, bathrooms, light/air shafts among others (Olsen, 1986). On the other hand the Ringstrasse boulevards in Vienna were occupied by affluent families whose wealth was derived from new industries or service in the expanding governmental institutions of nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary. This is collaborated by?????..