European Cities and Technology: Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities / Edition 1

by Colin Chant, David Goodman

Overview

Cities & Technology, a series of three textbooks and three readers, explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society: the transition from predominantly rural to urban ways of living. This series presents a new social history of technology, using primarily urban settings as a source of historical evidence anda focus for the interpretation of the historical relations of technology and society.
Drawing on perspectives and writings from accross a number of disciplines involved in urban historical studies - including archaeology, urban history, historical geography and architectural history - the books in the series explore: how towns and cities have been shaped by applications of a range of technologies and how such technological applications have been influenced by their social contexts, including politics, economics, culture and the natural environment.
European Cities and Technology is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying European Cities and Technology Reader in the same series. The book is divided into three principal sections: cities of the Industrial Revolution including case studies of Manchester, Glasgow, London and Paris; European cities since 1870, including London, Paris Berlin, the rise of modern urban planning and post-war reconstruction; and a variety of topics including Milton Keynes, Colonial India and Russia. It investigates the relative importance of technology, economics, politics and social conditions in relation to urban change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415200790
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/1999
Series:	Cities and Technology
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Goodman and Colin Chant are both lecturers in the department of History of Science and Technology at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870) 1. The onset of Industrialisation 2. Britain's Industrial North: Two Urban Case Studies: Manchester and Glasgow 3. Two Capitals: London and ParisPart 2: European Cities since 1870 4. The Second Industrial Revolution and the rise of modern urban planning 5. London and Paris 6. A short history of everyday Berlin 1871-1989 7. Reconstruction: new ways of building and government sponsorship 8. Case study of Milton KeynesPart 3: Urban Technology Transfer 9. Cities in Russia 10. Colonial India

Editorial Reviews

"Excellent in-depth studies....staggering inter-disciplinary scope" Phil Hubbard, Loughborough University

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