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
Summary
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.-- Provided by publisher
