Christopher Curtis Mead
Making Modern Paris: Victor Baltard's Central Markets and the Urban Practice of Architecture.
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. Buildings, landscapes, and societies, 7. 9780271050874 xxii/300 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 10.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap.
Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870. 
This work was awarded the 2015 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award.