Product Description: The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1854 and 1874 in the historic heart of the city. Making Modern Paris is the only comprehensive study to address systematically not only the role Baltard played in the markets’ design and construction but also how the markets relate to the rest of Baltard’s work and professional practice...read more

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Product Description: FIRST EDITION. 1989 Indiana University Press hardcover, Carole Marks (The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance). The history of the he mass black South-to-North movement from 1910 to 1930.

Retraces the architectural and urban history of Paris from the French Revolution to World War II