Selling Paris : Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital /

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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 busi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yates, Alexia M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
Colección:Harvard Historical Studies ; 186
Temas:
City planning > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Real estate business > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Real estate development > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
Real property > France > Paris > History > 19th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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