TY - BOOK AU - Yates,Alexia M. TI - Selling Paris: property and commercial culture in the fin-de-siècle capital T2 - Harvard Historical Studies SN - 9780674495098 AV - HD650.P3 Y37 2015 U1 - 333.330944/36109034 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Real estate development KW - France KW - Paris KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Real estate business KW - Real property KW - City planning KW - Promotion immobilière KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Immobilier KW - Biens réels KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Real Estate KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - fast KW - Grundeigentum KW - gnd KW - Immobilienwirtschaft KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Immobilienmarkt KW - Fastighetsmarknaden KW - historia KW - sao KW - Fastighetsekonomi KW - Fast egendom KW - Stadsplanering KW - Paris (France) KW - 1870-1940 KW - Parijs KW - gtt KW - Frankrike KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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.-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1086474 ER -