Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital / Alexia M. Yates.

Main entry:

Yates, Alexia M., 1980-

Title & Author:

Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital / Alexia M. Yates.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

Description:

353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Harvard historical studies ; 186

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-344) and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9780674088214 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0674088212 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

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.
Promotion immobilière France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
Immobilier France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
Biens réels France Paris Histoire 19e siècle.
15.70 history of Europe.
City planning
Real estate business
Real estate development
Real property
Grundeigentum
Immobilienwirtschaft
Stadtentwicklung
Immobilienmarkt
Fastighetsmarknaden historia.
Fastighetsekonomi historia.
Fast egendom historia.
Stadsplanering historia.
Paris (France) History 1870-1940.
Paris (France) Histoire 1870-1940.
France Paris
Paris
Parijs.
Frankrike Paris.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Harvard historical studies ; v. 186.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290711
Call No.: BIB 233844
Status: Available

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