Parc de Gerland

This guide to Parc de Gerland in Lyon starts with the deafening cattle market that once covered this ground, penning thousands of animals a day toward the killing floors. It follows the young architect Tony Garnier, hired by mayor Edouard Herriot in 1906 to replace the city's filthy old slaughterhouses with something closer to a garden city, laying out covered market streets and planted avenues across the site. The First World War interrupted his work, turning the half-built halls into a wartime arsenal before the market ever opened for business.