Paris's industrial areas began to locate in the outside of the city because of problems that began to result in health and traffic congestion in the mid-1800s. In the 1850s, the government undertook a massive program of urban reconstruction under George Eugène Haussmann. Haussmann destroyed buildings in Paris to give it a new look with broader roads and public houses. Industrialization in France began slowly compare to England and Germany. France started the industrial revolution with the textile industries then shifted to the heavy industry, especially iron.
