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...

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