Selling Paris : Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital / Alexia M. Yates.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Yates, Alexia M., Author.

Series:

• Harvard Historical Studies ; 186

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Real estate development--France--Paris--History--19th century.
• Real estate business--France--Paris--History--19th century.
• Real property--France--Paris--History--19th century.
• City planning--France--Paris--History--19th century.
• Paris (France)--History--1870-1940.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Selling Paris
• 1. The Business of the City
• 2. Seeing Like a Speculator
• 3. The Problem of Property
• 4. The Unceasing Marketplace
• 5. Marketing the Metropolis
• 6. Districts of the Future
• Epilogue: Illicit Speculation and Impossible Markets
• Appendix
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

• 9780674915985
• 0674915984
• 9780674495098
• 0674495098

OCLC:

925305730