The New Age of Building Age Maps Has Begun

The new era of building age maps has begun. Block and Paper have been busy recently creating animated building-age maps of cities around the world, showing urban development unfold over time. The style has since been emulated by others, including Parcelscope's Every Building in Los Angeles County.Now Alexander Bogachev has imported the idea to France, creating an animated building-age map of Paris that shows when each of the French capital's 122,435 buildings was constructed.Paris, Building by Building provides an animated timeline of the construction of Paris since the year 900. One of the most surprising findings of this chronology is how much of Paris was built after the famous Haussmann period. According to the map, only one building in fifteen dates from 1851 to 1870, the era associated with Baron Haussmann's transformation of the city. Six times as many buildings were actually constructed during the Belle Époque, between 1871 and 1914.Paris, Building by Building, offers more…