Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital /
Yates, Alexia M., 1980-
Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital / Alexia M. Yates. - 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations - Harvard Historical Studies ; 186 . - Harvard historical studies ; 186. .
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.--
In English.
9780674495098 (electronic bk.) 0674495098 (electronic bk.) (alkaline paper) (alkaline paper)
10.4159/9780674495098 doi
22573/ctt1c7sgrs JSTOR
2015006315
1800-1940
Real estate development--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Real estate business--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Real property--History--France--Paris--19th century.
City planning--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Promotion immobilière--Histoire--France--Paris--19e siècle.
Immobilier--Histoire--France--Paris--19e siècle.
Biens réels--Histoire--France--Paris--19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Real Estate--General.
HISTORY--Europe--France.
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
HD650.P3 / Y37 2015
333.330944/36109034
Selling Paris : property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital / Alexia M. Yates. - 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations - Harvard Historical Studies ; 186 . - Harvard historical studies ; 186. .
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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.--
In English.
9780674495098 (electronic bk.) 0674495098 (electronic bk.) (alkaline paper) (alkaline paper)
10.4159/9780674495098 doi
22573/ctt1c7sgrs JSTOR
2015006315
1800-1940
Real estate development--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Real estate business--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Real property--History--France--Paris--19th century.
City planning--History--France--Paris--19th century.
Promotion immobilière--Histoire--France--Paris--19e siècle.
Immobilier--Histoire--France--Paris--19e siècle.
Biens réels--Histoire--France--Paris--19e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Real Estate--General.
HISTORY--Europe--France.
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
HD650.P3 / Y37 2015
333.330944/36109034