The American Cities and Technology Reader: Wilderness to Wired City / Edition 1

by Gerrylyn K. Roberts

Overview

Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological dimensions of Amerindian settlements to the 'wired city' concept of the 1960s and internet communications of the 1990s.Its focus extends beyond the US to include telecommunications in Asian cities in the late 20th century. The topics covered:
* the rise of the skyscraper
* the coming of the automobile age
* relations between private and public transport
* the development of infrastructural technologies and systems
* the implications of electronic communications
* the emergence of city planning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415200868
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/1999
Series:	Cities and Technology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	List of figures and tables	vii
	Introduction	1
1	The Indian Legacy in the American Landscape	3
2	Spanish Legacy in the Borderlands	17
3	The Laws of the Indies	25
4	St. Augustine, Florida	28
5	Mission, Presidio and Pueblo in California	32
6	French Landscapes in North America	38
7	New Orleans	44
8	The Northeast and the Making of American Geographical Habits	49
9	Timber Framing in Colonial America	62
10	Masonry Construction in Colonial America	71
11	Chicago: Nature's Metropolis	75
12	Comparative Perspectives on Transit in Europe and the United States, 1850-1914	88
13	The Trolley and Suburbanization	98
14	The Revolution in Street Pavements, 1880-1924	107
15	The Decentralization of Los Angeles during the 1920s	117
16	The Minimum House	126
17	Light, Height, and Site: the skyscraper in Chicago	139
18	Decisions about Wastewater Technology, 1850-1932	154
19	Refuse Pollution and Municipal Reform: the waste problem in America, 1880-1917	163
20	"The Best Lighted City in the World": the construction of a nocturnal landscape in Chicago	173
21	Regional Planning for the Great American Metropolis: New York between the World Wars	188
22	Transport: maker and breaker of cities	196
23	Order in Diversity: community without propinquity	201
24	Squaring the Circle: can we resolve the Clarkian paradox?	211
25	New Highways	225
26	Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late Twentieth Century	230
27	Cities and their Airports: policy formation, 1926-1952	247
28	The Growth of the City	259
29	Boston's Highway 128: high-technology reindustrialization	264
30	The Role of Information Technology in the Planning and Development of Singapore	272
31	Continuity and Change in Conceptions of the Wired City	280
	Acknowledgements	289
	Index	291