Anthony Sutcliffe. The autumn of central Paris: The defeat of town planning, 1850-1970 (Studies in urban history I). — London: Edward Arnold, 1970.

Brown cloth 24 x 15.5 cm, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 'Cowles Library - Drake University' stamps inside and to edges, library card pocket to the pastedown, removed sticker to spine, top edge red, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [i-iv] v-xv [xvi], 1-372, total 388 pages; collated in-16mo: [1]-9¹⁶ 10¹⁸ 11-12¹⁶, total 194 leaves plus four leaves of plates before gathering 6, four leaves of plates before gathering 9, and a folding map at the end, gathering 8 unsigned.

Half-title: STUDIES IN URBAN HISTORY I | General Editor: H. J. Dyos | Reader in Urban History at the | University of Leicester ||

Title-page: The Autumn | of Central Paris | The Defeat of Town Planning 1850-1970 | Anthony Sutcliffe | Research Fellow in Modern History at the | University of Birmingham | {blank} | {publisher’s device} | Edward Arnold ||

ISBN: 9780713155495; 0713155493.

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1035744553.

Contents: Introduction -- The Grand Design -- The Struggle to Complete the Imperial Plan -- The Period of Distractions -- Building in the Right Bank Centre, 1850 -- 1914 -- The Indian Summer of Central Paris -- The Battle for Preservation, 1850-1914 -- The Abandonment of the Grand Design -- The Approach of Obsolescence -- Victory for Preservation -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : Sources -- Appendix 2 : Graphs and Diagrams

Anthony Sutcliffe (British, 1942 – 2011) – author.

Harold James Dyos (British, 1921–1978) – general editor of the series.