Le Havre
Le Havre is a city of 175 thousand1 located along a bay into which the Seine flows, in the Seine-Maritime Department of the Haute(Upper)-Normandie Region of France. The city was mostly destroyed in World War II, and was rebuilt under the direction of Auguste Perret. His efforts gained the city UNESCO World Heritage status for "being an oustanding post-war example of urban planning and architecture based on the unity of methodology and the use of prefabrication, the systematic utilization of a modular grid, and the innovative use of concrete."2 The rebuilding includes the Hôtel-de-Ville (1957, 213 feet) and the Eglise (Church) Saint-Joseph (1957, 351 feet).3
The city is an important container port.4
External references
Hôtel-de-Ville and nearby buildings, and part of the harbor of le Havre, Seine-Maritime Department, Haute-Normandie Region, France
Footnotes
1. Figure for 2010 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communes_in_France_with_over_20,000_inhabitants, accessed 2/5/2015.
2. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
3. Emporis.com, accessed 4/9/2015. The only taller local structure is a mast, the Harfleur TV tower at 404 feet.
4. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.
