Placemakers : emperors, kings, entrepreneurs : a brief history of real estate development / Herb Auerbach with Ira Nadel.

Main entry:

Auerbach, Herb, 1932-, author.

Title & Author:

Placemakers : emperors, kings, entrepreneurs : a brief history of real estate development / Herb Auerbach with Ira Nadel.

Publication:

Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure 1, [2016]
©2016

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-201) and index.
Why we build -- Land and laws -- The city of Ur and the ziggurat -- Alexandria in ancient Egypt -- Rome : republic and empire -- Land and loyalty in China -- Tudor England and the dissolution -- Fortress towns : a new model -- The walled city of Richelieu -- Picturesque towns and garden suburb -- The new Paris of Napoleon III -- Utopias for profit -- Le Vésinet, Shaker Heights and the railroad -- The high-rise and the Empire State -- Suburbs, shopping malls, automobiles -- Space and the future.

ISBN:

9781927958797 (hardcover)
1927958792

Subject:

Real estate development History.
Promotion immobilière Histoire.
Real estate development.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Nadel, Ira Bruce, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304420
Call No.: BIB 249990
Status: Available

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