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Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital
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- Creator
- Alexia M. Yates
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674915985, 9780674088214, 0674495098, 0674088212, 0674915984, 9780674495098
- OCLC
- ocn905969925, ocn925305730
- 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
Subjects
- 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.