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.