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Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital / Alexia M. Yates.
- Title
- Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital / Alexia M. Yates.
- Author
- Yates, Alexia M., 1980-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- 353 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings damaged, its finances mired in debt, Paris was a city in crisis. Alexia Yates chronicles the private actors and networks, practices and politics, that spurred the largest building boom of the nineteenth century, turning city-making into big business in the French capital.
- Series Statement
- Harvard historical studies ; 186
- Uniform Title
- Harvard historical studies v. 186.
- Subject
- 1800 - 1940
- Real estate development > Paris > History > 19th century
- Real estate business > Paris > History > 19th century
- Real property > Paris > History > 19th century
- City planning > Paris > History > 19th century
- City planning
- Real estate business
- Real estate development
- Real property
- Paris (France) > History > 1870-1940
- France > Paris
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: selling Paris -- The business of the city -- Seeing like a speculator -- The problem of property -- The unceasing marketplace -- Marketing the metropolis -- Districts of the future -- Epilogue: illicit speculation and impossible markets.
- ISBN
- 9780674088214 (alk. paper)
- 0674088212 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2015006315
- OCLC
- 905969925
- SCSB-11701216
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library