Selling Paris
Subtitle: property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital
By: Alexia M. Yates
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780674088214
Subjects: Real estate development; City planning; Real property; Real estate business; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: selling Paris; title: The business of the city; title: Seeing like a speculator; title: The problem of property; title: The unceasing marketplace; title: Marketing the metropolis; title: Districts of the future; title: Epilogue: illicit speculation and impossible markets.